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13 Jan 2021, 9:00 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
Last Wednesday, as I was planning to start writing my Verdict column for publication the next day, news broke that violent rioters had invaded the United States Capitol on what would soon turn into a deadly and murderous rampage. [read post]
5 Aug 2020, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
As I write these words, the Trump White House and Republicans in the Senate are holding America hostage to an economic orthodoxy that they simultaneously misunderstand and misapply. [read post]
2 Nov 2021, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
Could the Supreme Court suddenly strike down tax laws that have existed without challenge for decades? [read post]
5 Feb 2014, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
The New Buchanan-Dorf Analysis: Congress Has Already Guaranteed That the President Will Violate the Debt Ceiling, Even if He Tries Not to Do So Despite our frustration in not seeing the President or his allies even acknowledge the trilemma, or our analysis of the President’s proper response to it, Professor Dorf and I have assumed until now that the President really would be making a choice among three different ways to violate the Constitution. [read post]
18 Dec 2013, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
The New Reality: Objections to the Buchanan-Dorf Approach Are Now Even Less Convincing Than They Used To Be There has, to date, been no attempt by any legal scholar—or anyone else, for that matter—to disprove the Buchanan-Dorf analysis. [read post]
1 Nov 2020, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
Although there is no reason to expect that we will know the results of the election immediately, we at least know that the voting will end tomorrow evening. [read post]
7 May 2014, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
Because they have “proven much more successful at resisting tax increases in the age of Obama than [h]ave the true plutocrats above them. [read post]
26 May 2011, 12:36 pm
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13 Nov 2019, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
One of the many choices that people have had to make over the last four years is whether to treat Donald Trump’s provocations seriously or as mere public-relations hype. [read post]
6 Sep 2021, 9:00 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
There are not many good things to say about the blizzard of terrible things that has become a depressingly permanent part of our lives. [read post]
22 Mar 2017, 9:02 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
Before this year, the few of us who had heard of Mick Mulvaney knew only that he was one of the Republican Party’s most extreme anti-government ideologues, a leading Tea Partier who helped to force out John Boehner as Speaker of the House and who was willing to hold the debt ceiling hostage as a means to advance his reactionary agenda.Now, Mulvaney has been installed as Donald Trump’s budget director, and his job is to try to explain to the American people why Trump’s proposed deep… [read post]
15 Jun 2016, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
One of the well-worn tropes of the 2016 presidential campaign is that the presumptive nominees of the two major parties both have “high negatives. [read post]
11 Jul 2018, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
Although “The Anthony Kennedy Show” has now been superseded by what will surely be an entertaining but entirely predictable renewal of “The Confirmation Show: Now Even More Evasive,” it is still valuable to consider Justice Kennedy’s hand in the Supreme Court’s hard-right turn that paid off so handsomely for conservative activists this year.In some ways, the most perversely interesting opinion that the Court’s Conservative Five handed down last month was in… [read post]
7 Jun 2022, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
There has already been an outpouring of commentary on the leaked opinion in the Supreme Court’s pending Dobbs case, in which Samuel Alito (apparently joined by four of his colleagues) will not only decide that Mississippi’s 15-week cutoff for abortion access is constitutional but that Roe v. [read post]
6 Sep 2023, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
After the 2016 election, mainstream news organizations like The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN, and many others engaged in what at first seemed to be a healthy collective reassessment of how they had covered the presidential contest between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. [read post]
1 Nov 2023, 9:02 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
Democratic primary voters who did not support Joe Biden during his bid for the presidential nomination in 2020 were never in any meaningful sense against him. [read post]
In a stunning public admission of a plan to distort our democracy, Donald Trump has been telling his audiences that he will win the 2020 election without winning more votes than Joe Biden. [read post]