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6 Dec 2021, 9:01 pm
During last week’s oral argument in Dobbs v. [read post]
7 Aug 2018, 9:01 pm
Last week, 72 of Justice Anthony Kennedy’s former law clerks signed a letter addressed to Senators Grassley and Feinstein, respectively the chairman and ranking member of the Judiciary Committee, urging the confirmation of another former Kennedy clerk, Judge Brett Kavanaugh, to fill the vacancy created by the justice’s retirement. [read post]
27 Jul 2014, 9:01 pm
Last week, in Halbig v. [read post]
5 Jun 2022, 9:01 pm
Last week, journalist Joan Biskupic reported that Supreme Court Marshal Gail Curley—who heads the internal investigation into the leak of Justice Samuel Alito’s draft opinion overruling the constitutional right to abortion—was seeking signed affidavits and mobile phone records from law clerks. [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Last week, Attorney General Sessions rescinded an Obama administration policy under which the Department of Justice did not target law enforcement efforts against marijuana cultivation, distribution, or use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]
30 Apr 2019, 9:01 pm
Dorf is the Robert S. [read post]
15 Nov 2016, 9:01 pm
Dorf is the Robert S. [read post]
9 Jun 2020, 9:01 pm
Ongoing protests against racism and police brutality have already sparked changes, including more serious charges against the officer who killed George Floyd and new charges against his fellow officers who watched without intervening, a pledge by the Minneapolis City Council to disband and replace the existing police force, and the beginning of reform throughout the country. [read post]
9 Nov 2020, 9:01 pm
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) makes its third trip to the Supreme Court today under the caption California v. [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]
12 Sep 2021, 9:01 pm
Dorf is the Robert S. [read post]
15 Oct 2019, 9:01 pm
History does not repeat, but it rhymes (according to a maxim sometimes but apparently falsely attributed to Mark Twain). [read post]
20 Mar 2018, 9:01 pm
After the Supreme Court found a constitutional right to same-sex marriage in Obergefell v. [read post]
4 Mar 2025, 9:01 pm
Late last month, I was a panelist at a symposium on constitutional law casebooks sponsored and hosted by the Institute of Bill of Rights Law and the William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal. [read post]
29 Dec 2015, 9:01 pm
Earlier this month, a playful story in the Washington Post explored the question whether an artificial intelligence (AI) might someday run for President of the United States. [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]
17 May 2016, 9:01 pm
Monday’s Supreme Court ruling in Spokeo, Inc. v. [read post]
2 Feb 2020, 9:01 pm
Late last month, the Supreme Court heard oral argument in Espinoza v. [read post]
21 Apr 2024, 9:01 pm
Having apparently learned a lesson from the fate that befell the presidents of Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania after they testified before Congress last December, last week Columbia University President Minouche Shafik gave an unequivocal “yes” answer to the question from Representative Elise Stefanik that tripped up Shafik’s erstwhile Ivy League peers: whether calls for genocide of Jews would violate the campus code of conduct.To be sure, some of Shafik’s other… [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]
