America’s Enabling Act

Officially titled Gesetz zur Behebung der Not von Volk und Reich, the Enabling Act of 1933 was passed in Germany’s Reichstag and Reichsrat on 23 March 1933. The act enabled the Cabinet, and the Chancellor, to make new laws without the involvement of the Reichstag or the President, then Paul von Hindenburg. The passing of…

What Will We Do…?

So, here’s a terrifying thought… What will we do if the Supreme Court of the United States decides, in the coming weeks, that Donald Trump should be/remain on the ballot across the country in November? At what point in this arduous, tedious process will we—as a People and as a nation—decide that enough is enough and…

Dobbs v. Jackson

For half a century, Roe v. Wade, 410 U. S. 113 (1973), and Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pa. v. Casey, 505 U. S. 833 (1992), have protected the liberty and equality of women. Roe held, and Casey reaffirmed, that the Constitution safeguards a woman’s right to decide for herself whether to bear a child. Roe held, and Casey reaffirmed, that in the first stages of pregnancy, the government could not make that choice for women. The government could not control a woman’s body or the course of a woman’s life: It could not determine what the woman’s future would be.