French Hill is asking that his pay be withheld during the shutdown. The Constitution says he can’t do that.
Adventures in Pointless Gestures: French Hill's "Refusal" of Pay
Tag: U.S. Constitution
Jason Rapert: STILL Not A Constitutional Scholar (But We Knew That Already)
Fair is foul, and foul is fair: Hover through the fog and filthy air
Cliched as it might be to choose this one, my all-time favorite Shakespearean soliloquy is from Act V of MacBeth, where the title character muses on the life and the passage of time: She should have died hereafter; There would…
ABC, As Easy As 1-2-3 (Or 90% of $900K)
When I wrote the first post about Rep. Justin Harris and his daycare, Growing God’s Kingdom (“GGK”), I purposefully kept the post focused entirely on the money received and not the propriety of the money itself. As the story has…
This Week In Facepalm: Reps. Edwards, Steel, and Vines
Lost in the drama of the Democrat co-sponsors trying to have their names removed from unconstitutional HB 1002 last week was an accounting of which Democrats actually voted for the bill. There were nine such votes, to wit: John Catlett*…
Forget The Numbers, Or Why HB 1002 Violates The Dormant Commerce Clause
In what should come as no surprise to anyone who has read BHR for more than about two days, my legal background tends to be the prism through which I view 99% of policy questions. The 1% of the time…
Max's House of Incorrect Con Law
Max has followed SB113 pretty closely, especially the fallout from Rep. Jeff Wardlaw’s (D-8) amendment to the bill, which resulted in the bill being tabled as possibly unconstitutional. Reading Max’s coverage, however, this jumped out at me: Abortion opponents contend…
AR-GOP: Denny Altes as Vezzini
Let’s ponder something together. C’mon, it’ll be fun. (Note: Author makes no guarantee as to fun of the following exercise.) OK, first, Dictionary.com defines “conservative” as: con·serv·a·tive /kənˈsɜrvətɪv/ [kuhn-sur-vuh-tiv] –adjective 1.disposed to preserve existing conditions, institutions, etc., or to restore…
/bangs head against wall
Maybe I’m only noticing something that goes on all the time, but it seems as if more and more people are whining about rights and (more accurately) how something or something is infringing on a right. Today’s case in point:…
AR-House Dist. 46: On David Meeks's Bill
I suppose it says something about this blogger’s ego that my first thought when I saw David Meeks’s prefiled HB 1053, was Meeks had noticed that I wasn’t posting much of late and felt that he should give me something…