Jeff Jacoby
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The seventh-grader and the First Amendment The Boston Globe February 14, 2024
At Columbia Law School, only one student club was rejected this year — the one formed to oppose antisemitism The Boston Globe February 7, 2024
Chester Darling's landmark life Arguable November 28, 2023
A GOP senator joins the anti-Citizens United chorus The Boston Globe November 5, 2023
Say it again, Supremes: Forced union dues in government are illegal The Boston Globe October 25, 2023
Amazon is huge, but it's no monopoly The Boston Globe October 22, 2023
'Art is anything you can get away with' The Boston Globe September 25, 2023
Corporate America is on notice: Discriminating by race is illegal The Boston Globe August 23, 2023
From Cuban princeling to imprisoned dissident Arguable August 8, 2023
What Gavin Newsom's proposed 28th Amendment gets right The Boston Globe July 16, 2023
Th Celtics, the Mavericks, and the "millionaire's tax" Arguable July 11, 2023
In rejecting affirmative action, Justice Thomas is no hypocrite The Boston Globe June 21, 2023
Oklahoma says yes to a religious charter school. So does the First Amendment. The Boston Globe June 11, 2023
Birthright citizenship is safe from Donald Trump's whims The Boston Globe June 7, 2023
There is no '14th Amendment option' to raise the debt ceiling The Boston Globe May 24, 2023
Rachael Rollins was a disgrace The Boston Globe May 21, 2023
Did the Varsity Blues prosecutions really belong in federal court? The Boston Globe May 17, 2023
Don't give up Twitter, NPR. Give up your subsidy. Arguable April 18, 2023
Lawmakers challenge the secrecy of the confessional The Boston Globe March 12, 2023
There's only one way to add an Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution The Boston Globe February 12, 2023
Trump, Biden, and the double standard on mishandling classified documents The Boston Globe January 25, 2023
No, Justice Barrett should not recuse herself The Boston Globe December 4, 2022
The Supreme Court can remind officials how to take a joke The Boston Globe October 23, 2022
The pardon power is being stretched too far The Boston Globe October 16, 2022
Congress sued to block Trump's illegal spending. Now it should sue to block Biden's The Boston Globe September 11, 2022
Alive and well and living on death row The Boston Globe July 24, 2022
Country before party. GOP before Trump. The Boston Globe July 20, 2022
Overturning Roe does not make the Supreme Court 'illegitimate' The Boston Globe June 29, 2022
'Red-flag' laws raise some red flags The Boston Globe June 19, 2022
The freedom to uphold an unpopular opinion The Boston Globe June 12, 2022
When Stalin and Hitler were allies Arguable May 9, 2022
Boston's ignominious record of disrespecting free speech The Boston Globe May 8, 2022
Alito's first draft is a good one. But first drafts change. The Boston Globe May 4, 2022
The Constitution protects your right to vote — and your right not to The Boston Globe April 27, 2022
Mississippi's mainstream abortion law The Boston Globe April 6, 2022
A peaceful Supreme Court confirmation, for a change The Boston Globe February 2, 2022
Does free speech fly at City Hall Plaza? The Boston Globe January 12, 2022
Restore the original immigration policy: an open door The Boston Globe December 19, 2021
Arguable: Thomas Jefferson, honored and dishonored Arguable October 25, 2021
Sirhan should die behind bars The Boston Globe September 1, 2021
The census is too nosy The Boston Globe August 12, 2021
The eviction moratorium and the rule of lawlessness The Boston Globe August 8, 2021
The very racist history of gun control The Boston Globe August 1, 2021
Again the Supreme Court defends religious believers. Again it's unanimous The Boston Globe June 23, 2021
Women don't register for the draft, and men shouldn't either The Boston Globe June 20, 2021
Which party gains if Roe goes down? The Boston Globe May 23, 2021
In nature and in government, sunsets are beautiful The Boston Globe May 16, 2021
Jim Crow was a horror. Don't trivialize it Arguable April 12, 2021
Race-based admissions are wrong, and it's time the Supreme Court said so The Boston Globe March 7, 2021
Why New Hampshire is suing Massachusetts The Boston Globe January 17, 2021
Biden is right to be leery of court-packing The Boston Globe October 28, 2020
Michigan and Pennsylvania courts struck down pandemic orders. Will the SJC? The Boston Globe October 11, 2020
Expect liberal rulings from the 'most conservative' Supreme Court The Boston Globe September 27, 2020
Scrap life terms for Supreme Court justices The Boston Globe September 23, 2020
Baker's pandemic orders were tough, but were they lawful? The Boston Globe September 9, 2020
The Christian flag and the Boston flagpole The Boston Globe August 30, 2020
Voting is a privilege that prisoners rightly forfeit The Boston Globe July 23, 2020
The enduring value of the Electoral College The Boston Globe July 9, 2020
The Constitution says no to DC statehood The Boston Globe June 21, 2020
College admissions cheating is sleazy, but it shouldn't be a federal case The Boston Globe May 27, 2020
The pernicious Logan Act should have been scrapped long ago The Boston Globe May 13, 2020
State lawmakers need to have more say in a crisis The Boston Globe May 10, 2020
A civil liberties pandemic The Boston Globe March 29, 2020
The Equal Rights Amendment died in 1979. Let it rest in peace. The Boston Globe March 22, 2020
More impeachments, please The Boston Globe February 9, 2020
Lindsey Graham and the impeachment pearl-clutchers The Boston Globe December 18, 2019
'Kill yourself,' she texted, and he killed himself. Does that make her a killer? The Boston Globe November 3, 2019
Abolishing birthright citizenship would be 'frankly ridiculous' — and profoundly un-American The Boston Globe August 28, 2019
The sheer ingratitude of Dennis Prager The Boston Globe July 28, 2019
Biden was right. Busing was wrong The Boston Globe July 3, 2019
When terrorists killed his daughter, his long crusade for justice began The Boston Globe April 28, 2019
Lower the voting age? Let's raise it instead The Boston Globe March 17, 2019
Good policy, bad policymaking, and the 2020 census fight The Boston Globe February 24, 2019
A war memorial is in the form of a cross. Is that a problem? The Boston Globe December 16, 2018
Victims may be sincere, but memory is fallible The Boston Globe October 10, 2018
Collins falsely cries 'bribery!' in crowdfunded political theater The Boston Globe September 19, 2018
Anthony Kennedy answered tough questions. Judge Kavanaugh should, too The Boston Globe July 11, 2018
The cynical 'millionaires tax' didn't fool the SJC The Boston Globe June 20, 2018
The real significance of the Masterpiece Cakeshop decision The Boston Globe June 6, 2018
Snobs rage, but the Berkshire Museum's future looks bright The Boston Globe April 18, 2018
Her 'Little Pink House' was her castle — until the government said it wasn't The Boston Globe April 15, 2018
Government unions play politics with unconstitutional dollars The Boston Globe February 28, 2018
Arts elitists to Berkshire Museum: Drop dead The Boston Globe January 28, 2018
In an age of e-commerce, the 'Quill rule' is more vital than ever The Boston Globe January 21, 2018
If the SJC sticks to precedent, the 'millionaire tax' is going nowhere The Boston Globe December 13, 2017
What the Constitution says about cakes and compelled speech The Boston Globe December 3, 2017
Liberate government workers from forced union fees The Boston Globe October 22, 2017
Abusive gerrymandering can be stopped, but not by judges The Boston Globe October 4, 2017
Why do presidents have unfettered power to pardon? The Boston Globe August 30, 2017
Freedom of speech, even in therapy The Boston Globe May 7, 2017
Don't nuke the filibuster — restore it The Boston Globe April 5, 2017
Gorsuch says judges aren't 'secret legislators'. Actually, they legislate all the time The Boston Globe March 22, 2017
Is that sermon political? The Boston Globe February 5, 2017
No men need apply The Boston Globe February 3, 2017
Make SCOTUS nominees answer the tough questions The Boston Globe January 29, 2017
Healey's Exxon witch-hunt The Boston Globe December 11, 2016
Is Thanksgiving constitutional? The Boston Globe November 23, 2016
The candidates' high court priority — and the Constitution's The Boston Globe October 20, 2016
Houses of worship are more than pews and prayerbooks The Boston Globe April 5, 2016
If the Supreme Court had term limits, confirmations wouldn't be so bloody The Boston Globe February 28, 2016
Obama can't rewrite immigration law, even for the better The Boston Globe November 15, 2015
The power to regulate is the power to destroy The Boston Globe October 14, 2015
Strike down the Supreme Court's 'buffer zone' The Boston Globe September 6, 2015
How judges corrode the rule of law The Boston Globe July 2, 2015
A fitting sentence for the Boston Marathon terrorist The Boston Globe May 15, 2015
Repeal that law school The Boston Globe May 13, 2015
Death or life for Tsarnaev? The Boston Globe April 22, 2015
Campaign contributions and double standards The Boston Globe March 15, 2015
Gun rights should cross state lines The Boston Globe January 21, 2015
Justices don't belong at the State of the Union pep rally The Boston Globe January 11, 2015
Same-sex weddings, and the right not to perform them The Boston Globe October 26, 2014
Wrong sperm, right baby. Why the lawsuit? The Boston Globe October 12, 2014
DA's abuse of discretion should be condemned, not cheered The Boston Globe September 17, 2014
A 'right' to recline? The Boston Globe September 3, 2014
Don't like the Constitution? Amend it The Boston Globe July 16, 2014
Blinders and buffer zones The Boston Globe July 4, 2014
Credit cards have expiration dates. Laws should too The Boston Globe June 16, 2014
US legal bubble can't pop soon enough The Boston Globe May 12, 2014
Money in politics? McCutcheon's foes don't always say no The Boston Globe April 6, 2014
Eminent disaster The Boston Globe March 12, 2014
The Court, the buffer zone, and the marketplace of ideas The Boston Globe January 26, 2014
Buffering out the right to hear The Boston Globe January 5, 2014
Another slip down the slope from gay marriage The Boston Globe December 22, 2013
Impeach Obama? Not a chance The Boston Globe December 18, 2013
Does the First Amendment stop at 35 feet? The Boston Globe November 10, 2013
Supreme Court life tenure needs a rethink The Boston Globe July 10, 2013
Voting rights and the chains of memory The Boston Globe June 30, 2013
How far does 'marriage equality' go? The Boston Globe May 29, 2013
King's 'Letter' and the law The Boston Globe April 14, 2013
Still obsessed with Citizens United The Boston Globe February 27, 2013
Bad guys' lawyers The Boston Globe January 13, 2013
Life terms for teen killers: neither cruel nor unusual The Boston Globe July 15, 2012
The #%@*&! problem The Boston Globe June 17, 2012
Jim McGovern's war on the Constitution The Boston Globe April 25, 2012
On trial at Rutgers: hate crime or thought crime? The Boston Globe March 14, 2012
Ganging up on Ginsburg The Boston Globe February 8, 2012
The Supreme Court's judgment isn't absolute The Boston Globe January 1, 2012
The affirmative-action myth The Boston Globe December 23, 2011
An 'end point' for race-based admissions The Boston Globe December 18, 2011
In Oregon, a profile in incoherence The Boston Globe November 30, 2011
A deep breath for free speech The Boston Globe November 13, 2011
Looting Lorillard The Boston Globe December 22, 2010
Is capital punishment racist? The Boston Globe December 5, 2010
The most conservative court? Hardly The Boston Globe October 10, 2010
Let the private sector fund stem-cell research The Boston Globe August 29, 2010
Born in the U.S.A. The Boston Globe August 15, 2010
Look who's defending states' rights The Boston Globe July 18, 2010
Declining on the bench The Boston Globe June 29, 2010
Not another 'hollow charade' The Boston Globe May 19, 2010
Who decides what 'marriage' means? The Boston Globe May 12, 2010
Signing on the line is a public act The Boston Globe May 2, 2010
Candidates, campaigns, and New Coke The Boston Globe January 30, 2010
'The freedom to think for ourselves' The Boston Globe January 24, 2010
Live from New York, a terror trial we'll regret The Boston Globe November 18, 2009
Kabuki and Sonia Sotomayor The Boston Globe July 15, 2009
The 'racist' brand The Boston Globe June 10, 2009
Lady Justice's blindfold The Boston Globe May 10, 2009
Roe and Doe, 36 years on The Boston Globe January 25, 2009
A silver bullet for Obama's campaign? The Boston Globe June 29, 2008
When judicial restraint goes too far The Boston Globe May 14, 2008
A 'shadowy' Society The Boston Globe November 21, 2007
Ludicrous lawsuits The Boston Globe June 17, 2007
Lawful incest may be on its way The Boston Globe May 2, 2007
The Constitution's guardrails The Boston Globe December 17, 2006
Misreading a sign of the times The Boston Globe June 21, 2006
Demagogues and the marriage debate The Boston Globe June 7, 2006
Scalia loosens up The Boston Globe March 19, 2006
'Freedom for the thought we hate' The Boston Globe March 1, 2006
'Privacy' by decree The Boston Globe November 9, 2005
Make them answer The Boston Globe September 18, 2005
Dying to get off the court The Boston Globe September 7, 2005
When justices refuse to retire The Boston Globe July 28, 2005
Eminent injustice in New London The Boston Globe June 26, 2005
The case for judicial term limits The Boston Globe May 26, 2005
Why NOT torture terrorists? The Boston Globe March 20, 2005
A phony 'consensus' on youthful killers The Boston Globe March 6, 2005
The pirates of eminent domain The Boston Globe February 27, 2005
Medical marijuana: the real stakes The Boston Globe December 9, 2004
Old enough to kill. Old enough to die? The Boston Globe October 21, 2004
The abusers of eminent domain The Boston Globe September 30, 2004
The respect donors deserve The Boston Globe December 14, 2003
The timeless meaning of marriage The Boston Globe November 16, 2003
If Pell grants are lawful, vouchers are too The Boston Globe December 14, 2000
The accuracy of capital punishment The Boston Globe February 28, 2000
Garrity's folly: 25 years after busing began The Boston Globe January 4, 1999
Microsoft's real crime: success The Boston Globe October 22, 1998
Yandle belongs in prison for life The Boston Globe September 3, 1998
Kennedy's destructive hate crimes bill The Boston Globe July 20, 1998
Due process, even for Big Tobacco The Boston Globe June 16, 1998
The wrong way to protect paychecks The Boston Globe May 5, 1998
Ivan the terrible, US citizen The Boston Globe March 10, 1998
A disabling law The Boston Globe February 17, 1998
Clinton's worst judicial nomination The Boston Globe February 10, 1998
Query for liberals: Should incest be a crime? The Boston Globe January 27, 1998
Latrena Pixley and the downward slide of American jurisprudence The Boston Globe January 9, 1998
An inspirational teacher of law The Boston Globe October 16, 1997
Justice Brennan's legacy is an imperious judiciary The Boston Globe July 31, 1997
The fall of term limits — and the SJC The Boston Globe July 17, 1997
Rewarding deadbeats The Boston Globe June 10, 1997
In Jones vs. Clinton, hypocrisy left and right The Boston Globe January 30, 1997
A nominee of a different color The Boston Globe September 10, 1996
Paying the price for faith The Boston Globe August 29, 1996
Why the voters should judge the judges The Boston Globe August 8, 1996
Cut the fawning over Justice Liacos The Boston Globe July 11, 1996
100 years after Plessy, and we're still counting by race The Boston Globe April 25, 1996
There's a remedy for incompetent judges The Boston Globe April 18, 1996
Should discrimination against homosexuals be illegal? The Boston Globe October 26, 1995
The terrible crimes of Ivan The Boston Globe September 28, 1995
The Supreme Court doesn't have the final word The Boston Globe September 7, 1995
Whose parade? Whose message? The Boston Globe May 2, 1995
Stop-at-nothing zealots exploit the ADA The Boston Globe March 23, 1995
No freedom to mangle the First Amendment The Boston Globe January 31, 1995
Judging policy passed at the polls The Boston Globe November 17, 1994
Are there limits to congressional power? The Boston Globe November 15, 1994
When judges blunder, the remedy is impeachment The Boston Globe June 28, 1994
Clinton in court over a come-on? Come on! The Boston Globe May 17, 1994
A glib excuse to crash the St. Pat's parade The Boston Globe March 10, 1994
A blacker shade of racist The Boston Herald September 16, 1991

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