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20 Apr 2023, 10:26 am by Neil H. Buchanan
Buchanan I have continued to dig into the controversy that erupted after some students at Stanford Law School temporarily disrupted a talk last month by a visiting speaker (an extreme right-wing judge from the 5th Circuit). [read post]
11 Apr 2023, 8:44 am by Neil H. Buchanan
Buchanan One of the safest bets in recent years was that Republicans would conveniently drop the pretense that they believe in states' rights as soon as their manufactured Supreme Court super-majority handed them their long-sought repeal of Roe v. [read post]
10 Aug 2022, 11:18 am by Neil H. Buchanan
Buchanan During the more than seven years that I have been warning about the inevitable end of constitutional democracy in the United States, I have almost exclusively focused on the legal mechanics of how this process will play out. [read post]
26 Apr 2022, 8:54 am by Neil H. Buchanan
Buchanan The increasingly intense Republican efforts to energize their angriest voters with nonstop culture-war battles is truly a national effort. [read post]
23 Jun 2020, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
But that does not mean that we are imagining a situation in which Trump stews in the West Wing until January 20 and then simply announces that he is not going anywhere.What we know is that Trump is willing to fire prosecutors, to mobilize military troops, to abuse the courts, and to claim that everything that has happened to him is corrupt. [read post]
17 May 2020, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
That is, even as Republicans have largely won their decades-long war against labor unions in the private sector (allowing most private companies to quickly drop their pension plans), the public sector is the one remaining stronghold of workers’ power.This issue arose in 2018’s Janus v. [read post]
22 Apr 2019, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
Reagan was accurately viewed as an intellectual lightweight and a right-wing extremist. [read post]
20 Feb 2019, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
Because Democrats have passed laws in some states to protect the status quo, should the Supreme Court—freshly packed by Republicans with extreme ideologues—turn the question of abortion rights back to the states by overturning Roe v. [read post]
9 Jan 2019, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
The basis for doing so is tenuous at best, but the five hyper-conservative justices might do it anyway.Before I explain how the Court’s right-wing bloc might carry water (again) for the wealthy, however, some conceptual and legal background is necessary. [read post]
6 Sep 2018, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
Part 1,” which I published on Dorf on Law shortly after Kavanaugh’s nomination this summer, I focused only on the issue of reproductive rights, pointing out that it was not merely a question of whether Roe v. [read post]
6 Aug 2018, 5:16 am by David E. Bernstein
But then there is this, from Phil Magness: For those of you who were wondering how Nancy MacLean would explain away the recent Koch/Trump feud, wait no longer: It's all just a ploy to divert people's attention over to Trump's twitter account so they don't notice the Koch plot to install Brett Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court, which will have the effect of securing James Buchanan's control over the judiciary from beyond the grave for just long enough until the Kochs,… [read post]
11 Jul 2018, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
” Justice Kennedy said.It is hardly surprising that Kennedy joined Justice Alito’s majority opinion in Janus, but it is that short exchange that I think captures both Kennedy’s right-wing fundamentalism and the direction in which the Court would have continued to move even if he had chosen not to retire.What, after all, is Kennedy saying there? [read post]
2 Jul 2018, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
Similarly, Kennedy’s willingness to join with former Justices Sandra Day O’Connor and David Souter in protecting women’s right to choose in the 1992 Casey decision was important, to put it mildly.Even so, there were more than a few items on the other side of the ledger, including Kennedy’s cowardly vote in Bush v. [read post]
10 Jul 2017, 9:07 am by Ilya Somin
It is ironic that MacLean falsely accuses of James Buchanan and other libertarians of opposing Brown v. [read post]