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5 Jul 2023, 1:00 pm by Michael C. Dorf
In the op-ed, I give the examples of Chief Justices John Marshall in the early Republic and Earl Warren in the 1950s and 1960s. [read post]
1 Jul 2023, 3:28 pm by Eugene Volokh
McConnell, Natural Rights and the Ninth Amendment: How Does Lockean Legal Theory Assist in Interpretation? [read post]
29 Jun 2023, 3:35 am by jonathanturley
Chief Justice John Roberts demolished the ISL theory as a barrier to judicial review. [read post]
9 Jun 2023, 7:30 am by Guest Blogger
  Other scholars – Michael McConnell and Randy Picker and David Skeel and Gillette – have argued Chapter 9 bankruptcy courts should consider using their discretion in these cases to encourage or force pretty substantial reforms in municipal policy, from tax increases to moving to at-large from districted methods of electing city councilmembers. [read post]
5 Jun 2023, 1:50 pm by David Super
  Minority Leader McConnell was responsible for supplying only enough Republican votes to invoke cloture, plus a few more to cover for dissents from a few Democrats (who likely would have voted “yes” if Senator McConnell had stumbled). [read post]
31 May 2023, 2:01 pm by Guest Author
Previously arcane arguments over the constitutionality of the public debt limit now make headlines.[1]  At the same time, debate swirls around whether the President of the United States has the constitutional authority, resting on Section Four of the 14thamendment, to ignore the debt limit. [read post]
22 May 2023, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
” But McConnell did not poke holes in the Fourteenth Amendment argument, easily or otherwise. [read post]
18 May 2023, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
Consider his well-known statement in an 1810 letter to John Colvin: [A] strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the high duties of a good citizen: but it is not the highest. the laws of necessity, of self-preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation. to lose our country by a scrupulous adherence to written law, would be to lose the law itself, with life, liberty, property & all those who are enjoying them with us;… [read post]
17 May 2023, 5:21 pm by David Super
  It cost John Boehner the speakership eight years ago in a significantly less extreme Republican caucus. [read post]
15 May 2023, 9:05 pm by renholding
As Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen recently observed, the United States has not defaulted on its national debt since its founding in 1789, and we should not start now.[1] She also pointed out that Congress has raised the statutory ceiling to pay the debts that it has authorized almost 80 times since 1960.[2] This time might be different, however, because Republicans, with a bare majority in the House, are playing a sustained game of chicken with the White House. [read post]
8 May 2023, 4:20 am by Michael C. Dorf
We have had numerous American dynasties: John and John Quincy Adams; William Henry and Benjamin Harrison; Teddy and Franklin Roosevelt (who were only very distantly related but whose names conjured a closer relation); John and (but for Sirhan Sirhan) perhaps Robert Kennedy; George H.W. and George W. [read post]
27 Apr 2023, 6:41 am by David Super
  Senate Republican Leader McConnell operates similarly, as did former Republican House Speakers John Boehner and Paul Ryan. [read post]
19 Apr 2023, 6:07 am by Jerry Goldfeder
Just recently Senator John Fetterman (D-PA) was hospitalized for a month. [read post]
4 Apr 2023, 10:02 am by Eric Segall
I also suspect either Judge Duncan or Judge Ho will be the opening act at next year's Federalist Society National Convention, and I would expect a few Pryorish remarks from either one about the Stanford students.Justin Walker was 37 years old when his mentor Mitch McConnell got him nominated to be a federal district court judge despite no trial experience. [read post]
3 Apr 2023, 4:20 pm by Thomas Berg
  */ Doug Laycock, Michael McConnell, Rick Garnett, John Inazu, Michael Paulsen, Asma Uddin, and yours truly. [read post]
12 Mar 2023, 9:31 am by Dave Maass
As his complaint points out, the FBI spied on many musicians of that era, including Jimi Hendrix and John Lennon. [read post]
10 Mar 2023, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
John Fetterman Sponsored a Bill from the Hospital. [read post]
9 Mar 2023, 4:24 am by Emma Snell
Popp did not indicate how long McConnell would be in the hospital. [read post]