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7 Feb 2017, 9:01 pm
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]
8 Jun 2021, 9:01 pm
The nearly-universally negative reaction to the professional tennis world’s initially shameful treatment of Naomi Osaka has been encouraging. [read post]
25 Oct 2022, 9:01 pm
For decades, conservative scholars and Justices have argued that the Supreme Court should adopt an “originalist” approach to constitutional interpretation. [read post]
28 Jun 2016, 9:01 pm
In analyzing Monday’s landmark Supreme Court ruling in Whole Woman’s Health v. [read post]
21 Apr 2022, 9:01 pm
On Monday, U.S. [read post]
12 Apr 2020, 9:01 pm
On Tuesday, April 7, Wisconsin held a primary election despite the fact that state residents were under an order of the governor to stay home in order to slow the spread of COVID-19. [read post]
4 Jul 2023, 9:01 pm
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]
25 May 2021, 9:01 pm
Last week, the Supreme Court announced that it would review a decision by the U.S. [read post]
30 Mar 2021, 9:01 pm
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]
17 Jul 2022, 9:00 pm
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
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]
25 Sep 2023, 9:01 pm
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]
22 Apr 2020, 9:01 pm
On Monday, in Ramos v. [read post]
19 Jan 2021, 9:01 pm
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]
30 Jan 2024, 9:01 pm
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]
6 Feb 2018, 9:01 pm
That the decision is wasteful, immoral, and counterproductive is of little concern.Follow @dorfonlaw Michael C. [read post]
21 Aug 2018, 9:01 pm
With Republican Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles Grassley having scheduled the Supreme Court confirmation hearing for Judge Brett Kavanaugh to begin just after Labor Day, government officials have been working hard to release as much of the voluminous record of his past work as possible. [read post]
25 Jul 2017, 9:01 pm
Shortly after the news broke last week that President Trump’s advisers were looking into the possibility of the president issuing a pardon to family members, campaign staff, and even himself for crimes he and they may have committed by colluding with Russian government officials or obstructing the investigation into such collusion, I received inquiries from reporters who wanted to know whether a president really could pardon himself. [read post]
16 May 2022, 9:01 pm
Supporters of abortion rights recently protested in front of the homes of some of the Justices expected to join in a version of Justice Samuel Alito’s leaked draft opinion in Dobbs v. [read post]
25 Aug 2015, 9:01 pm
Michael C. [read post]
