Eric Segall

Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott's recent statement likening Planned Parenthood to a terrorist organization could be easily dismissed as a rhetorical rant designed to win a court case if it were not part of a disturbing, on-going assault on the rights of women. Between us, we are the...

The president has been criticized by some for his alleged attacks on the Supreme Court, and he was ordered to explain his remarks by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. The president's remarks weren't entirely accurate, though the reaction has been vastly overblown. Contrary to what conservatives are saying, President...

I am a 53-year-old happily married father of three beautiful girls. My usual gig is teaching constitutional law, and normally I write in this space about such mundane matters as abortion, affirmative action, and free speech. Today, I have a different subject: What happened to Billy Joel?

Most baby boomers...

Over the last two months, Republican politicians in Congress and across the nation have launched a complete assault on women's health generally and a woman's right to choose to have an abortion specifically. Last Thursday (on International Women's day no less), Congress debated a completely unnecessary (and potentially...

Rick Santorum poses a grave threat to people who do not share his personal religious and moral views on the right and wrong ways to live in a modern civil society. Santorum is not a person who believes government should stay out of people's private moral choices. Quite the contrary,...

At a New Year's Eve party my wife and I hosted this year, a good friend shared the following story. His teenage son had spent over three hours all alone in his room on an unseasonably warm and sunny day. When asked, "What are you still doing up there?", the...

Much has been written over the last few months about the "big three" cases concerning health care, voting rights, and immigration policy that the Supreme Court has decided to hear during the second half of its 2011-2012 term. These cases are often discussed together in the...

1. Enter the 21st century and allow television cameras in the Courtroom: What are you trying to hide?
2. You don't own the Supreme Court Building -- you rent it: Open the front door and let people climb up the historic steps again.
3. When the President of the...

Newt Gingrich has made headlines, and angered people across the political spectrum, by arguing for the virtual destruction of the Supreme Court's power to strike down acts of Congress, the states, and the people. Most commentators have failed to wrestle with these views in a serious manner, perhaps because they...

Now that the Supreme Court has decided to hear the constitutional challenge to the individual mandate contained in President Obama's Health Care Plan, the Administration has in all likelihood started to plan its litigation strategy for the oral argument in front of the Court. The overwhelming consensus among constitutional law...