Instead of rewriting what I’ve already said numerous times in interviews on TV, radio, and podcast about President Biden’s Supreme Court nominee, I thought I’d simply provide links to a few of those interviews.In the meantime, of course, our hearts, thoughts, and…

As widely reported, Justice Neil Gorsuch has decided to go maskless on the bench. Everyone else on the Court has been wearing a mask. Well, we can’t say that about Sonia Sotomayor. She has avoided the bench and participated in…

In a series of posts last year, I discussed the challenge to New York’s abortion insurance mandate brought by religious objectors. Led by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany, the challengers sought an exemption on sincere religious grounds.(See Religious Institutions…

Here’s a follow-up to the immediately preceding post on New York Court Watcher (The New List for the Court of Appeals–Seven names for the Governor to make her 1st pick for New York’s High Court):An interview with Capitol Pressroom host…

Seven names for the Governor to make her 1st pick for New York’s High CourtJudge Eugene Fahey is retiring from the Court of Appeals. Not because he chooses to. But because of the state’s infuriatingly moronic mandatory age retirement. Fahey…

For the second time in one month, the State Commission on Judicial Nomination released a list of nominees for New York’s highest court. Earlier last month, on April 8th, the Commission gave Governor Andrew Cuomo a list from which to…

As Nick raised his glass, Father Keller said out loud, “Finally.”—from WHERE HAVE YOU GONE WITHOUT ME, by Peter BonventreYes, “Finally,” Part 4.Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesLate last year, in the previous installments in this series, we saw a pretty clear pattern.…