Post Tagged with: "George Will"

Frank Mace / January 28, 2012 11:59 pm

The Gingrich Appeal

It's all about anger.

Sam Barr / December 6, 2010 3:37 pm

George Will Comes Out as a Judicial Liberal

George Will apparently wants the Supreme Court to overturn the individual mandate—the requirement that Americans purchase health insurance. As Jonathan Chait points out, Will is faced with the unenviable task of reconciling belief in judicial minimalism, which he and other conservatives have spent decades extolling, with the impulse to take advantage of their narrow Supreme Court majority. Will’s solution is [...]

Peyton Miller / May 16, 2010 12:07 am

Representation on the Court

[The Supreme Court's] purpose is not to uphold the interests of individuals (at least not directly), but to faithfully interpret the Constitution.

Sam Barr / May 24, 2009 8:26 pm

Questions for George Will

George Will worked himself into quite a lather today about a law review article by some visiting assistant law professor at Duke that argues that the principle of free speech might be subordinated to governmental interests in combating corruption and the distorting influences of wealth on the political process. No surprises here: Will is a leading opponent of campaign finance [...]

Sam Barr / February 22, 2009 7:06 pm

George Will On A Roll

George Will really doesn’t like Russ Feingold. Will’s latest column attacks Feingold’s proposed constitutional amendment, which would require elections to fill vacant Senate seats, and which the HPR will be analyzing in its upcoming issue. Will starts off by smearing Feingold’s proposal as “vandalism against the Constitution,” and says that Feingold is trying to “tamper” with our founding document. This [...]

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