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16 Apr 2023, 9:01 pm
Writing separately, we have suggested that a platinum coin that was deposited with the Fed would count as “debt” and thus would not even achieve the goal of keeping the US below the ceiling (Buchanan) and that advocates’ overly broad reading of the Coinage Act is likely a violation of the reasonableness requirement for agency interpretations that aim to fill statutory gaps (Dorf). [read post]
21 May 2023, 9:00 pm
As one of us (Dorf) explained in a column on May 10, “there’s a difference between ‘would be litigated’ and ‘would have to be litigated. [read post]
20 Feb 2014, 9:06 am
The following contribution to our contraceptive mandate symposium comes from Michael C. [read post]
6 Jun 2023, 9:01 pm
As we described earlier this week in a column on Dorf on Law, there are various scenarios in which the debt ceiling at that point will be a political non-issue, with an incoming Republican President wanting to increase the debt ceiling and being joined either by a compliant Republican-dominated legislative branch or by a Democratic Party that would not be willing to hold the world hostage. [read post]
13 Jul 2021, 9:01 pm
Dorf is the Robert S. [read post]
12 Feb 2024, 9:01 pm
Dorf is the Robert S. [read post]
9 Jan 2018, 9:01 pm
Last week, Attorney General Sessions rescinded an Obama administration policy under which the Department of Justice did not target law enforcement efforts against marijuana cultivation, distribution, or use that is permissible in the states in which it occurred—either for medical or recreational purposes. [read post]
23 Nov 2020, 9:01 pm
The welcome news that two companies, Pfizer and Moderna, have apparently created safe and effective vaccines against COVID-19 raises immediate questions about distribution. [read post]
26 Jan 2022, 9:01 pm
Dorf is the Robert S. [read post]
20 Apr 2023, 9:01 pm
The true threat is coming from inside the Supreme Court building.Follow @dorfonlaw Michael C. [read post]
21 Jan 2020, 9:01 pm
Last week the Virginia legislature ratified the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), thus becoming the 38th state to do so and satisfying Article V’s threshold (three quarters of the states) for an amendment to become part of the Constitution. [read post]
19 Sep 2017, 9:01 pm
Last week, the Israel Supreme Court ruled that the government’s policy of exempting Haredim (ultra-Orthodox Jews) from military service amounted to unconstitutional discrimination. [read post]
2 Feb 2020, 9:01 pm
Late last month, the Supreme Court heard oral argument in Espinoza v. [read post]
8 Dec 2020, 9:01 pm
In his final months in office, President Trump and his administration have made a variety of audacious personnel and policy moves that aim to affect the course of individual lives and government operations well into the future. [read post]
13 Dec 2016, 9:01 pm
Dorf is the Robert S. [read post]
9 Jan 2017, 9:01 pm
Last week Chief Justice John Roberts recused himself from a patent case that was argued in December when he discovered that his financial holdings created a potential bias. [read post]
24 Jan 2017, 9:01 pm
The Supreme Court recently added sixteen new cases to its docket. [read post]
29 Oct 2019, 9:01 pm
Last week, numerous progressives strongly criticized Pete Buttigieg after the Mayor of South Bend and candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination supposedly told a reporter for Cosmopolitan that if he were to win the election, he would appoint justices to the Supreme Court in the mold of retired Justice Anthony M. [read post]
15 Nov 2016, 9:01 pm
We can start by listening.Follow @dorfonlaw Michael C. [read post]
20 Feb 2018, 9:01 pm
Last week’s horrific mass shooting at a Florida high school quickly led to an all-too-familiar pattern of “thoughts and prayers,” calls for gun control measures, counter-assertions that such calls improperly “politicize” a tragedy, and the dissection of the shooter’s background, with special focus on his mental health. [read post]
