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7 Feb 2017, 9:01 pm by Michael C. Dorf
President Trump’s nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch to fill the current vacancy on the Supreme Court will encounter both procedural and substantive opposition. [read post]
3 Jan 2021, 9:01 pm by Michael C. Dorf
On Wednesday, January 6, Congress will meet in joint session to confirm Joe Biden’s election as President, effective upon his inauguration two weeks later. [read post]
25 Sep 2023, 9:01 pm by Michael C. Dorf
According to an indictment that was unsealed in federal district court in Manhattan last week, New Jersey Democratic Senator Robert Menendez solicited and accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars of bribes in exchange for using his influence as ranking minority member and later chair of the Foreign Relations Committee to secure hundreds of millions of dollars in military aid to Egypt, while also leaning on state prosecutors to drop a case against one of his patrons. [read post]
19 Jan 2021, 9:01 pm by Michael C. Dorf
Assuming that white supremacists, conspiracy theorists, and other domestic terrorists do not derail a ceremony that even Confederate secession could not prevent, twelve hours after this column goes live, Joe Biden will take the oath of office as President. [read post]
16 Aug 2022, 9:01 pm by Michael C. Dorf
In October, the Supreme Court will hear oral argument in National Pork Producers Council (NPPC) v. [read post]
17 Jul 2022, 9:00 pm by Michael C. Dorf
On July 8, Elon Musk informed Twitter that he was terminating his April agreement to purchase the company for $44 billion. [read post]
3 Sep 2019, 9:01 pm by Michael C. Dorf
The Democratic candidate has won the national popular vote in four of the last five presidential elections, yet the Republican candidate took office after three of those five elections. [read post]
4 Jul 2023, 9:01 pm by Michael C. Dorf
In an important 1961 article in the Harvard Law Review, Yale Law Professor Alexander Bickel—who was a leading constitutional scholar of his generation—defended the Supreme Court’s exercise of what he called “the passive virtues. [read post]
11 May 2021, 9:01 pm by Michael C. Dorf
Last week, the Facebook Oversight Board delivered a mixed verdict regarding the company’s treatment of former President Donald Trump’s account. [read post]
30 Jan 2024, 9:01 pm by Michael C. Dorf
Last week, Kenneth Eugene Smith became the first person in the United States to be executed by nitrogen hypoxia—in which a mask attached to Smith’s face poured pure nitrogen into his lungs, thus depriving him of oxygen. [read post]
25 May 2021, 9:01 pm by Michael C. Dorf
Last week, the Supreme Court announced that it would review a decision by the U.S. [read post]
30 Mar 2021, 9:01 pm by Michael C. Dorf
In the aftermath of last year’s defeat at the polls, Donald Trump had difficulty finding reputable and competent lawyers to assist him in attempting to persuade the public, judges, and other government officials of his Big Lie—that he was the rightful winner of the 2020 presidential election. [read post]
25 Oct 2022, 9:01 pm by Michael C. Dorf
For decades, conservative scholars and Justices have argued that the Supreme Court should adopt an “originalist” approach to constitutional interpretation. [read post]
28 Mar 2022, 9:01 pm by Michael C. Dorf
After a week in which Republican Senate Judiciary Committee members Ted Cruz, Lindsey Graham, Josh Hawley, and others played to their QAnon-conspiracy-theory-believing base by outrageously insinuating that Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson has a soft spot in her heart for pedophiles, it was almost refreshing to hear Ben Sasse announce that he would vote against her confirmation to a seat on the Supreme Court because of a disagreement over judicial philosophy. [read post]