February 2022

Several candidates for Governor of Texas have promised to use the Texas National Guard to capture and deport people crossing the border illegally from Mexico. Does the governor have the legal authority to do so? Let’s start with some possibly-relevant provisions of the U. S. Constitution. (Emphasis added.) U. S. Constitution, Article I, Section 8The […]

Up in the sky, look! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s Superman! From 1940 to 1958 millions of Americans tuned in weekly to The Adventures of Superman, a show about an amazing man with superpower. With the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1990, our political class and their echos in the media extolled