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Obergefell and the Right to Other Peopleโ€™s Children

Jeff Shafer

Weโ€™re mournfully familiar with the constitutional right of mothers to be rid of their own prenatal children. Now coming into view is an adult right to possess and have...

Supreme Incoherence: Transgender Ideology and the End of Law

Jeff Shafer

In The Trouble with Principle, Stanley Fish recites an observation that John Milton included in his Areopagitica: โ€œNo law, Milton points out, can permit activity that constitutes an assault...