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22 May 2023, 9:01 pm
” Even the most committed textualist should find that laughable.To be fair, Klein frames that discussion as a matter of asking what three arch-conservative Supreme Court justices—John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, and Neil Gorsuch—might be convinced to endorse, and he notes later in the essay that this Supreme Court has shown us that once-nutty arguments are no longer off the table.Even so, when Klein turns his attention to the second argument, this is his transition sentence:… [read post]
3 May 2017, 9:01 pm
When McConnell and Collins said, however, that Clinton should nominate someone like Judge Neil Gorsuch—“a Harvard-educated jurist who everyone admits is qualified”—Clinton had had enough.What happened next is by now well known. [read post]
7 Aug 2024, 6:35 am
Listed inventors Bryan Depew and Neil Greer still run the small company. [read post]
28 Jan 2025, 9:00 pm
Trump is a so-called president, Lindsey Graham is a so-called senator, Lebron James is a so-called Laker, and Melania Trump is a so-called wife. [read post]
27 Mar 2025, 7:24 am
Despite Donald Trump’s repeated claims that he would not touch Social Security, Medicare, or Medicaid, the reality is that all three of those crucial programs are now under attack from Trump’s team. [read post]
7 Oct 2020, 9:01 pm
One of the magazines to which I subscribe sends out weekly emails summarizing the blur of recent events. [read post]
21 Aug 2019, 9:01 pm
Writing in a public forum—as I do here at Verdict and on Dorf on Law—is a privilege that I never take for granted. [read post]
29 Jan 2025, 9:01 pm
In the post-election transition period and the first head-spinning days of Donald Trump’s second administration, some observers have noted that Trump’s oft-repeated campaign promise to reduce consumer prices has completely disappeared. [read post]
9 Feb 2022, 9:01 pm
President Biden’s poll numbers have declined over the last few months, and although there are many competing explanations for why that has happened, plenty of pundits (of all ideological leanings) are blaming his struggles in part on the recent increase in inflation. [read post]
6 Jun 2023, 9:01 pm
In short order over the last two weeks, the latest debt ceiling crisis was defused, the date of the next crisis was all but set in stone, and the political class quickly moved on to “previously scheduled programming”—that is, to the many ongoing crises that the debt ceiling standoff had pushed off the front pages for more than a month.Hindsight bias may leave the impression that this result was foreordained, but it was not. [read post]
16 Sep 2021, 5:00 am
Is the United States still, as I recently put it, a “Dead Democracy Walking”? [read post]
2 Sep 2020, 9:01 pm
With everything else that is going wrong in the country and the world in 2020, the one policy issue that I imagined was simply not going to pop back up on the radar screen was Social Security. [read post]
20 Jan 2021, 9:01 pm
For the last four and a half years, I have been predicting that Donald Trump would never leave office. [read post]
16 Apr 2023, 9:01 pm
Conventional wisdom holds that the 2022 midterm elections went surprisingly well for Democrats. [read post]
27 Jan 2016, 9:01 pm
In particular, two economists at Harvard, Richard Freeman and James Medoff, published a series of influential articles that led to their book What Do Unions Do? [read post]
21 May 2023, 9:00 pm
As the country and the world await news of whether Republicans’ decision to use the debt ceiling as a political weapon will lead to utter catastrophe, pundits and reporters alike are asking whether there is an out that would allow the Democrats to sidestep the Republicans’ attempted extortion.The question is: “out” from what, exactly? [read post]
14 Apr 2021, 9:01 pm
When President Biden announced that he planned to propose a large infrastructure spending bill, it was all too predictable what would come next. [read post]
27 Apr 2022, 9:01 pm
Recently, there has been a torrent of revelations regarding the planning that led to the January 6 insurrection, Republican leaders’ reactions to that violent day, and the parallel nonviolent coup attempt that Donald Trump’s supporters in the White House and Congress tried to pull off.One of the issues that has come back into the conversation is the Trumpists’ plan to have former Vice President Mike Pence reject slates of Biden electors from a number of states for being improperly… [read post]
17 Oct 2018, 9:01 pm
Trump’s firing of FBI Director James Comey last year (preceded by his summary firing of Acting Attorney General Sally Yates, who refused to enact his cruel Muslim ban) evoked memories of Nixon’s Saturday Night Massacre, one of many low points on the road to Nixon’s resignation.Nixon similarly went much further than all other presidents before or since (until Trump) in politically manipulating the Fed. [read post]
16 Sep 2024, 9:01 pm
Republican leaders have been all but begging Donald Trump to “talk policy” rather than focus on grievances in his campaign. [read post]
