Joel Jacobsen

Do Supreme Court justices believe what they write in their opinions?

The question in the headline may sound insulting when asked about the Supreme Court, but it would hardly raise an eyebrow when asked about any other group of nine lawyers. When a criminal defense lawyer stands before a jury to...

Sex, abstinence education, and the threat of violence

Recently there's been a flurry of news and opinion pieces about teenage pregnancy and abstinence-only sex education, most of them assuming those are the same topic. Teenage motherhood rates in America are sky-high compared to those...

New Mexico's high rate of teenage pregnancy is a measure of New Mexico's high rate of violence

New Mexicans are almost used to bringing up the rear in comparisons of the states. It can begin to seem like fate. Only Mississippi has a greater percentage of babies born to teenaged mothers, according to the authoritative America's...

The President versus the Supreme Court, just like James Madison planned it

Try this little experiment. Go into a courtroom. The Supreme Court's courtroom, ideally, but any courtroom will do. Sit in the front row in funny clothes and, as the judge is announcing a ruling from the bench...

The Supreme Court's corporate political spending decision

Some things are too important to be left to democracy. Among them are elections. That was the meaning of the Supreme Court's decision Thursday to invalidate democratically-enacted restrictions on corporate money sloshing around our elections like bilge water...

The other issue in the Prop 8 trial

In every area of political life except the law, we find it easy to distinguish between the accomplishment and the means used to accomplish it. So what if Mussolini made the trains run on time? So what if cheating retirees...

Regulating child rape

Imagine a federal agency charged with the task of regulating the level of child rape in America. Like the Federal Reserve calculating interest rates, or the Food and Drug Administration deciding when a new medicine's side effects are...

Do Supreme Court justices believe what they write in their opinions?

Sex, abstinence education, and the threat of violence

New Mexico's high rate of teenage pregnancy is a measure of New Mexico's high rate of violence

The President versus the Supreme Court, just like James Madison planned it

The Supreme Court's corporate political spending decision

The other issue in the Prop 8 trial

Regulating child rape

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