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19 Sep 2018, 9:00 pm by John Dean
Cornell Law Professor Michael Dorf, a former US Supreme Court law clerk, and a serious scholar of the Court, discovered that executive experience is predictive of performance on the Court. [read post]
1 Sep 2022, 12:03 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
Buchanan A week ago today, Professor Michael Dorf posted on this blog the sad news of Professor Sherry Colb's passing earlier that morning. [read post]
14 Dec 2023, 10:01 am by Neil H. Buchanan
  "It's actually quite complicated and context-specific" is the only right answer, but any attempt to delineate complications and context would be attacked as lawyerly or insufficiently human.In other words, this is ultimately not an echo of the 1988 presidential faux-debate in which Michael Dukakis responded to a weird (and frankly disgusting) hypothetical question about his wife being raped and murdered by offering a canned response about the death penalty. [read post]
6 May 2007, 5:36 pm
While all who criticize the individual rights position on originalist grounds are themselves nonoriginalists, Michael Dorf is a rare writer on the Second Amendment who expressly defends a nonoriginalist approach to the issue. [read post]
12 Jul 2007, 10:00 am
This excellent blog by Professor Michael Dorf provides a cogent analysis of why the separation of powers rationale for banning contingency arrangements is just wrong, concluding that "hypocritically or not, the adminsistration is entitled to eschew contingent fee arrangements... [read post]
13 Dec 2017, 4:10 am by Edith Roberts
” At Justia’s Verdict blog, Michael Dorf weighs in on Masterpiece Cakeshop v. [read post]
10 Nov 2020, 6:35 am by James Romoser
Texas (Jonathan Adler, The Volokh Conspiracy) The Fallout of a SCOTUS Health-Care Decision Could Be Quick, Devastating, and Irreversible (Nicholas Bagley, The Atlantic) ObamaCare Returns to the Supremes (Editorial Board, The Wall Street Journal) The Affordable Care Act Challenge and the Senate Runoff Elections in Georgia (Michael Dorf, Verdict) Invalidate entire Affordable Care Act (Devin Watkins, USA Today) Obamacare faces Supreme Court remade by Trump (Susannah Luthi, Politico)… [read post]
4 Jun 2015, 6:56 am by Amy Howe
  Lisa Soronen weighs in at the Appellate Practice Blog of the International Municipal Lawyers Association, while at Verdict Michael Dorf uses the decision to illustrate and criticize the breadth of qualified immunity protection under the Court’s precedent. [read post]
6 Mar 2007, 4:40 am
Relatedly, Michael Dorf suggested in a Findlaw column about a year ago that even if Roe fell, the serious constitutional questions would remain to be resolved whether individuals have a right to access abortion to protect their own health. [read post]
21 Oct 2009, 5:56 am
  Relatedly, for those who missed it in late August, the Boston Globe ran this story about the "new owner of the grand Victorian home on Irving Street in Cambridge where Julia Child, the doyenne of la cuisine bourgeoise, lived, cooked, and warbled for 43 years" - Harvard law professor Michael Klarman and his family. [read post]
19 Nov 2015, 3:20 am by Amy Howe
At Verdict, Michael Dorf discusses campus unrest and Abigail Fisher’s challenge to the University of Texas at Austin’s consideration of race in its undergraduate admissions process, concluding that “it would be a tragic mistake to regard the campus protests as a reason to abandon the goals that the Supreme Court endorsed in Grutter and, twenty-five years before that, in Bakke. [read post]
18 May 2018, 4:00 am by Edith Roberts
” At his eponymous blog, Michael Dorf suggests that Justice Clarence Thomas “deserves some credit for calling attention to the Court’s failure to fully justify or consistently approach severability issues” in Murphy v. [read post]
20 Feb 2015, 5:12 am by Amy Howe
” In a podcast for the National Constitution Center, Jeffrey Rosen, Michael Dorf, and Ilya Shapiro discuss the recent immigration ruling by a federal judge in Texas and how the case might fare at the Supreme Court. [read post]
15 Jun 2017, 4:31 am by Edith Roberts
” At Justia’s Verdict Blog, Michael Dorf observes that Monday’s decision in Sessions v. [read post]
23 Jan 2012, 6:45 am by Joshua Matz
  Coverage and commentary continued through the weekend, from Michael Li at Texas Redistricting, Michael Dorf at Dorf on Law, Nina Totenberg at NPR, Michael McGough of the editorial board of the Los Angeles Times, Rick Hasen, Shira Toeplitz, and Ray Suarez at PBS (video with transcript), Alex Isenstadt of Politico, Rick Hasen at his Election Law Blog, John Kennedy of the Palm Beach Post, Justin Levitt at the Election Law Blog, and Joan Biskupic at… [read post]
23 Jan 2012, 6:45 am by Joshua Matz
  Coverage and commentary continued through the weekend, from Michael Li at Texas Redistricting, Michael Dorf at Dorf on Law, Nina Totenberg at NPR, Michael McGough of the editorial board of the Los Angeles Times, Rick Hasen, Shira Toeplitz, and Ray Suarez at PBS (video with transcript), Alex Isenstadt of Politico, Rick Hasen at his Election Law Blog, John Kennedy of the Palm Beach Post, Justin Levitt at the Election Law Blog, and Joan Biskupic at… [read post]
7 Feb 2025, 9:30 pm by Karen Tani
Eric Segall on how the Roberts Court killed originalism (Dorf on Law). [read post]