Subscribe to feedby Ellis Washington -- "We the People" tell the government what to do, it doesn't tell us. "We the People" are the driver, the government is the car. And we decide more…
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Ellis Washington is a former staff editor of the Michigan Law Review and law clerk at the Rutherford Institute. He is a professor of Constitutional Law, Legal Ethics, and Contracts at the National Paralegal College, a counselor at the American College of Education, and a founding board member of Salt and Light Global. Washington is a co-host of "Joshua's Trial," a radio show of Christian conservative thought. A graduate of John Marshall Law School and post-grad work at Harvard Law School, his latest law review article is titled, "Social Darwinism in Nazi Family and Inheritance Law." Washington’s latest book is a 2-volume collection of essays and Socratic dialogues – "The Progressive Revolution" (University Press of America, 2013). Visit his popular law/political blog, "EllisWashingtonReport.com, an essential repository dedicated to educating the next generation of young conservative intellectuals.
If I were mayor of Detroit, part 2
by Ellis Washington -- Jowakka Jones, Tupac Tipton, Jose Jesus Rodriguez, Shawniqua Thompson and Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick: The damn party's over! ~ Ellis Washington (a paraphrase of Justice Clarence Thomas's grandfather) more…
What I'd do as president, part 2
by Ellis Washington -- Ours was the first revolution in the history of mankind that truly reversed the course of government, and with three little words: "We the people." "We the people" more…
If I were mayor of Detroit
by Ellis Washington -- Show me a monopoly (liberalism) and I'll show you a tyranny (Detroit). ~ Ellis Washington Many of the policy assumptions in this column are presently untenable in Detroit more…
What I'd do as president
by Ellis Washington -- The study of history is a powerful antidote to contemporary arrogance. It is humbling to discover how many of our glib assumptions, which seem to us novel and more…
A Tale of Two Cities: Grosse Pointe and Detroit
by Ellis Washington -- It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. ~ Charles Dickens, "A Tale of Two Cities" (1859) Prologue Paradise Valley, Detroit, Mich., circa 1967 more…
A critique of Justice Thurgood Marshall
by Ellis Washington -- George E.C. Hayes, Thurgood Marshall and James Nabrit congratulating one another following 1954 Supreme Court decision Brown v. Board of Education What distinguishes the rule of law from more…
Detroit's 'Operation Sistergirl'
by Ellis Washington -- You can take the [sister]girl out of the ghetto, but you can't take the ghetto out of the [sister]girl. ~ Conventional wisdom of inner-city Detroit One of more…
The real Medellin Cartel
by Ellis Washington -- The president's authority to act, as with the exercise of any governmental power, "must stem either from an act of Congress or from the Constitution itself." ~ more…
Stalin in Detroit
by Ellis Washington -- [State-controlled] education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed. ~ Joseph Stalin As I traverse more…