I subscribed to The Dish when Andrew Sullivan first took it behind a paywall. I like to pay for content I actually read (or that actually creates news). As a founding member, I felt like I was invested into his journalism and what he created. What I liked was that he had a differing point of …
Month: May 2018
In my last week as a law student, I studied hard for finals. I wanted to get my GPA to a B average after a very hard first year. However, I had to go to my student loan exit interview. With almost every student I knew, we funneled into the auditorium and received an envelope. …
Although Justice Douglas wrote that “racism as a constitutional principle was emphatically rejected” in Yick Wo, he noted that on May 15, 1893, the Supreme Court provided a dark day for resident aliens. However, in discussing the case, Justice Douglas focused on Justice David J. Brewer, a conservative justice, who became a champion of individual rights.
Although America has always been a land of immigrants, the people who currently live in its borders love to try to keep others out. In the nineteenth century, many people who had low or no income came to the United States. To limit their entry, New York, placed a head tax on every ship that …