On the day after Barack Obama’s election, I thought you might be interested in what Walter Bagehot said about the presidential form of government, in his famous 19th century work, The English Constitution:

the […]

I’m not a day late with this post; and yes, I do realise what happened last night. I’m pretty confident Obama will be inaugurated as 44th president on January 20.

Constitutionally, though, he’s not even been elected yet because […]

I’ve not posted yet on this important case from the US Supreme Court: I’m sorry, there’s just been too much fun happening in the British Isles this week. But I mustn’t keep you from the judgment itself; here’s a […]

The trial of Al Qaeda suspects in the US big news at the moment of course – with Khalid Sheikh Muhammad and others having appeared before a military tribunal on Friday. I’m interested, though, in this Federal Court […]

Before I leave the Big Apple, a leader in today’s New York Times drew my attention to this US Supreme Court case in which a federal law on child pornography has been upheld as constitutional.

The Times […]

I’m blogging lite, as you know, but must while in the U.S. of A. mention the decision of the California Supreme Court, which has ruled that gay people have a constitutional right to marry their same-sex partners, just as […]

I did say there might be some blawging lite from the US, where I’m currently staying with my cousin Cara in Las Vegas (that’s right!), so here is an all-American caffeine-and sugar-free post, with the judgment (given a few weeks […]

This isn’t a case in the US Supreme Court, I’m sorry to say, but a piece at Huffington Post in which the famous lawyer lays into the evangelical candidate Mike (how am I not myself?) Huckabee’s […]