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4 Jun 2010, 12:01 am
Liar's Poker author Michael Lewis recently wrote a humorous but bitterly ironic piece for The New York Times arguing that Wall Street is secretly ecstatic about the bills, despite the presence of some annoying new rules, because nothing in the bills would change the fundamental structure of the financial system. [read post]
18 May 2023, 10:41 am
Some of the best were when I read a New York Times op-ed by a law professor named Michael McConnell this past Sunday, in which he repeated almost verbatim some weak arguments that he had made in 2012. [read post]
30 Aug 2024, 9:05 am
But she is right, and it matters precisely because it could be Harris who has the most non-blockaded electoral votes and would thus be the winner.When this all came up in 2020, I co-authored a Verdict column with Professors Michael Dorf and Laurence Tribe: "No, Republicans Cannot Throw the Presidential Election into the House so that Trump Wins. [read post]
5 Oct 2021, 10:24 am
Professor Michael Dorf (here) and I (here, followup here) have both had some fun with the Eastman memo, which cited a Verdict piece that we co-authored with Professor Laurence Tribe last year. [read post]
17 Jan 2023, 6:30 am
Dorf Constitutional law mostly comprises the rules and standards that courts purport to derive from the constitutional text, as informed by original understanding, historical development, judicial precedent, and normative considerations. [read post]
22 Nov 2024, 11:29 am
(For more, see esp. my Dorf on Law column last Tuesday.) [read post]
14 May 2023, 2:31 pm
(Here again, I’m indebted to Mike Dorf.) [read post]
20 May 2010, 8:09 am
Briefly: At Findlaw.com, Michael Dorf interprets the Comstock decision as signaling that the Court would uphold the healthcare mandate as constitutional, because eight Justices (the majority, plus Justice Scalia) revealed a willingness to extend federal power to areas that are not independently regulable. [read post]
1 Jan 2014, 9:01 pm
The President has thus far refused to follow the constitutionally required path, which is (as my Justia colleague Professor Michael Dorf and I have been arguing for quite some time now) to borrow the amount of money needed to meet the country’s legal obligations. [read post]
24 Apr 2018, 9:01 pm
In a recent column, Professors Sherry Colb and Michael Dorf wrote about a sub-controversy that arose from the first episode of the “Roseanne” reboot, in which Conner dismisses two shows built around nonwhite families with a snarky and cutting remark. [read post]
28 Apr 2019, 9:01 pm
For the past few months, here on Verdict as well as on Dorf on Law, I have been arguing that the conventional narrative about Democrats having moved to the “far left” is, in a word, nonsense. [read post]
6 Feb 2019, 9:01 pm
Senator Elizabeth Warren has been the most creative policy thinker in Washington ever since she arrived on the scene little more than a decade ago. [read post]
18 Oct 2017, 9:01 pm
As Michael Dorf reminds us in his most recent column on Verdict, the controlling Supreme Court opinion says that the Second Amendment only applies to firearms in “common use,” which means that many different types of guns could be banned outright (as machine guns are now).Moreover, Dorf pointed out that the Supreme Court also held that “the Second Amendment protects a right of individuals to possess firearms in their homes for their personal use for… [read post]
6 Sep 2018, 9:01 pm
My Verdict colleague Michael Dorf recently addressed one aspect of the latter question, suggesting that there is a small but nontrivial amount of work that state supreme courts can undertake that would slow the US Supreme Court’s upcoming roll. [read post]
4 Oct 2021, 9:01 pm
But as Professor Dorf explained early in 2013, that is simply not how administrative law works in the United States. [read post]
27 Feb 2013, 9:01 pm
The Debt Ceiling and the Sequester: Understanding the Differences Between Unilateral Presidential Action and Congressionally Mandated Arbitrariness In a Verdict column that I co-authored with Professor Michael Dorf last month, we summarized a series of articles that we have recently published in the Columbia Law Review. [read post]
23 Apr 2015, 9:01 pm
In Part One, in the space below, we offer some reactions to the doctrinal analyses presented in a recent essay by Verdict columnist Michael Dorf. [read post]
28 Jul 2016, 9:01 pm
One answer, as Michael Dorf and I discuss in our book, Beating Hearts: Abortion and Animal Rights, is that once a pregnant woman decides, for whatever reason, that she no longer wants to be carrying a pregnancy to term, she has a powerful interest in freeing herself from the physiological burdens of pregnancy. [read post]
2 Apr 2024, 9:50 am
As Michael Dorf notes in this post, there are cases in which the maker of a brand-name pharmaceutical challenged the approval of a generic, but this avenue will not always be available. [read post]
22 Jun 2018, 3:31 am
At Dorf on Law, Michael Dorf maintains that “Justice Kennedy’s majority opinion inadequately responds to the key objection by Chief Justice Roberts” in dissent that a change in states’ ability to tax out-of-state retailers should come from Congress. [read post]
