Opinion

The annual Scalia Lecture at the Harvard Law School is mind-bending and provocative — like its namesake, the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.

The next few days will show whether President Joe Biden has dropped the ball on the critical issue of appointing judges.

As a matter of fact, by the time you read this, he may have redeemed himself with antsy Democrats who have been waiting since January for the first nominations.

There are more exceptions to the Fourth Amendment’s warrant requirement than you can count on the fingers of both hands. There are consent searches and open fields searches, there are automobile searches and plain view ones, and there are hot pursuit searches.

You often think of a hot pursuit when a cop chases a gun-toting robber from a bank and follows him directly into his hideout. That’s an easy one.

Just four years ago, Nebraska prison officials projected they were on track to significantly reduce Nebraska’s crisis level of prison overcrowding by the start of the new decade. Instead, we enter 2021 with the situation largely unchanged and Gov. Pete Ricketts asking taxpayers to reward that failure with a $230 million commitment for a new prison.