Today marks the fiftieth anniversary of a landmark case in our nation’s history.  And I’m not saying it was necessarily a horrible ruling.  On this date in 1963, the Supreme Court ruled that prayer in schools was violated the Establishment clause of the constitution that separated Church and State.  It all started when Madalyn Murray, an atheist, sued Baltimore […]

I have heard a lot of unusual rulings, but this one takes the cake.  On this date, 1927, the Supreme Court ruled that criminals had to pay income taxes on their stolen property or face tax evasion.  It was a landmark decision in the case of the United States v. Sullivan.  This means that bootleggers had to pay tax.  This means […]