Opinions

Virginia Attorney General says Insurances Should Cover ‘Life-saving’  Proton Radiation Administered at HBCU

     Miyares clarified in the three-page opinion that a section of the Virginia code that covers the topic “prohibits an insurance carrier that provides coverage for cancer therapy from denying a patient coverage for proton radiation therapy when the coverage determination is based on the carrier’s application of a higher standard of clinical evidence to such treatment than it uses for treatments it otherwise approves.”   […]

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Turning Away from Evil

     The banality of evil was a term coined by Hannah Arendt to capture the ordinary and mundane daily lives people lead while atrocities were being committed. For example, you read about the stench of death and the impossibility of ignoring the smell; how could the people of Auschwitz pretend they did not know what was going on? […]

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The Mercy Rule

     As a Jew who mourns the death of everyone killed on October 7, and all those killed in the three months since (as well as all the dead over the previous 75 years), I’ve prayed and protested for an end to the fighting.  […]

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SCOTUS: Are The 14th Amendment Due Process & Disqualification Clauses Mutually  Exclusive

   The Judiciary Act of 1789 created the Supreme Court for the purposes of issuing writs of mandamus. These writs are legal orders compelling government officials to act in accordance with the law. Amazingly, SCOTUS is facing an existential dilemma regarding the 2024 presidential election. They must resolve whether the 14th Amendment’s due process and qualification clauses are mutually exclusive. […]