Articles tagged as Anthony Kennedy
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The Court Sets Off Tremors – Again: Hadley Arkes in The Catholic Thing
In his column for The Catholic Thing, JWI Founder and Director Prof. Hadley Arkes comments on the Supreme Court decision to hear Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, a case about a Mississippi law that bans abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy. Prof. Arkes speaks to the motivations behind the outrage from the pro-choice side […] -
Fellowship Alumni Spotlight: David Dewhirst ’14
David Dewhirst, a 2014 James Wilson Fellow, is the current Solicitor General of Montana. He graduated from Regent University before obtaining his J.D. from George Washington University Law School, where he served as president of his Federalist Society Chapter. He has clerked for Judge Lawrence VanDyke of the Ninth Circuit and the U.S. Senate Judiciary […] -
The Test of Heartbeats for Judges–and Other Former Fetuses: Prof. Hadley Arkes in The Catholic Thing
In his weekly column for The Catholic Thing, JWI Founder and Director Prof. Hadley Arkes details some of the history of the Right’s strategy on pro-life legislation in Congress and the Courts. Republicans, Arkes contends, have not tried to overturn Roe in one fell swoop, but rather have taken smaller steps that gradually restrict abortion […] -
“Justice on Trial: The Kavanaugh Confirmation and the Future of the Supreme Court” An Interview with Mollie Hemingway and Carrie Severino
In July 2019, JWI’s Deputy Director Garrett Snedeker and Intern Maura Bradley shared a discussion with Mollie Hemingway and Carrie Severino, the authors of the book Justice on Trial: The Kavanaugh Confirmation and the Future of the Supreme Court (Regnery Publishing, 2019). Hemingway is senior editor at the online magazine The Federalist where she covered the Kavanaugh confirmation […] -
AUDIO: Prof. Arkes on the Implications of Justice Kennedy’s Retirement, the nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh and NIFLA v. Becerra
With the Supreme Court’s recent decision in NIFLA vs. Becerra (2018), the retirement of Justice Anthony Kennedy at the end of July, and the President’s nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh for the U.S. Supreme Court, many are speculating on what these events mean for future cases that consider freedom of speech and abortion, as well as what […] -
“Abortion and the Brett Kavanaugh Hearings: A Plan for Senate Republicans” Professor Hadley Arkes in National Review
With the upcoming hearings over Supreme Court Nominee Brett Kavanaugh, Prof. Hadley Arkes makes the case for a different Republican strategy at National Review Online with his latest essay, “Abortion and the Brett Kavanaugh Hearings: A Plan for Senate Republicans.” Prof. Arkes begins by reviewing the traditional Republican playbook: promising to have the nominee keep his […] -
“Conservative Jurisprudence Resorts to Relativism”–Professor Hadley Arkes in First Things
Writing at First Things, Professor Arkes weighs in on the decision of the Supreme Court in Masterpiece Cakeshop. The majority opinion has been described as a “narrow” decision to vindicate a Colorado baker in his refusal to supply a wedding cake for a same-sex marriage ceremony. At stake were the defendant’s rights to free expression […] -
“Jack Phillips Has His Day In Court” – Prof. Hadley Arkes in the Claremont Review of Books Digital
In early December 2017, the Supreme Court heard oral argument in Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission. The case concerns a weave of questions on freedom of religious expression, limitations on speech, and laws on public accommodations in the state of Colorado. In an essay for the Claremont Review of Books Digital, “Jack Phillips Has His Day […] -
“The Shell Game of ‘Tiers of Scrutiny’ Exposed, Once and for All” –Prof. Arkes in the Library of Law and Liberty
We invite you to read Prof. Arkes’s essay, “The Shell Game of ‘Tiers of Scrutiny’ Exposed, Once and for All,” in the Library of Law and Liberty. In the piece, Prof. Arkes offers commentary on the 2016 Texas abortion case, Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt, drawing upon the reasoning contained in Justice Thomas’s dissent. Prof. Arkes joins Justice […] -
“Pro-Lifers Discover Again the Perils of Indirection” –Prof. Arkes in The Catholic Thing
After the terrible loss at the Supreme Court for the state of Texas in Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt, Prof. Arkes provides an analysis of the weakness of the argument from the pro-life side in the case with his piece in The Catholic Thing “Pro-Lifers Discover Again the Perils of Indirection.” “We run the risk now of sounding […]