Back at the observation postI've been in San Francisco for The Ring, but time now to start catching up on those exciting end-of-year decisions. This year the Court didn't up-end the constitutional world (the New York legislature may have done, but I'll discuss that separately if at all), but it did issue some interesting opinions, notably several with splits that defy convention "

Kentucky v. King: 4th Am same old same oldWe now return from the season of exam-grading, and of commencements and graduations (both Regent's annual one, and that of my son Joseph from Christendom College) and of college reunions (my wife's 30th from Yale, which comes on the heel of my own Yale 30th last year), and of certain opera events chronicled on the other blog, to see what damage (or not)