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A Debt is a Debt is a Debt: Exotic Bonds are No More Legal than Jumbo Coins or Refusing to Pay Our Obligations

8 May 2023, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan and Michael C. Dorf

The constitutional crisis caused by the Republicans’ attempts at extortion via the debt ceiling has now increased from a simmer to a boil. [read post]

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Kings and Tyrants

8 May 2023, 4:20 am by Michael C. Dorf

by Michael C. [read post]

Dorf on Law - http://www.dorfonlaw.org/

Imagining a Successful Meeting Between Biden and McCarthy

7 May 2023, 9:00 pm by Michael C. Dorf

Dorf is the Robert S. [read post]

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“The Ideological Stakes of Overruling Chevron”

5 May 2023, 9:57 am by Howard Bashman

Dorf has this post at “Dorf on Law. [read post]

How Appealing - http://howappealing.abovethelaw.com

“If Justice Alito Doesn’t Have Enough Evidence to Name the Dobbs Leaker, Maybe He Shouldn’t Say He Knows Who It Was”

2 May 2023, 2:36 pm by Howard Bashman

Dorf has this post at his blog, “Dorf on Law. [read post]

How Appealing - http://howappealing.abovethelaw.com

Debt Ceiling Blackmail and Gimmicks to Avoid It Are Two Sides of the Same Coin

1 May 2023, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan and Michael C. Dorf

As we explain in an accompanying essay on Dorf on Law, we got all of the technical points right, while our critics got nearly everything wrong.Details aside, we emphatically reject the claim that we would ever consciously try to deceive our readers. [read post]

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“Disney v. DeSantis, Trump v. Hawaii, and Citizens United v. FEC”

28 Apr 2023, 10:50 am by Howard Bashman

FEC”: Michael C. [read post]

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The Pardon Power and Anti-Circumvention: A Trump Imprisonment Follow-Up

21 Apr 2023, 4:30 am by Michael C. Dorf

by Michael C. [read post]

Dorf on Law - http://www.dorfonlaw.org/

The Supreme Court is the True Threat

20 Apr 2023, 9:01 pm by Michael C. Dorf

Dorf is the Robert S. [read post]

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What We've Got Against Trillion-Dollar Platinum Coins

19 Apr 2023, 4:30 am by Michael C. Dorf

Buchanan and Michael C. [read post]

Dorf on Law - http://www.dorfonlaw.org/

The So-Called Platinum Coin Option is Illegal, Even on Its Own Terms

16 Apr 2023, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan and Michael C. Dorf

Writing separately, we have suggested that a platinum coin that was deposited with the Fed would count as “debt” and thus would not even achieve the goal of keeping the US below the ceiling (Buchanan) and that advocates’ overly broad reading of the Coinage Act is likely a violation of the reasonableness requirement for agency interpretations that aim to fill statutory gaps (Dorf). [read post]

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Can a President Serve From Prison? We Might Find Out

11 Apr 2023, 9:01 pm by Michael C. Dorf

Dorf is the Robert S. [read post]

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“Judge Kacsmaryk’s Tortured Readings”

10 Apr 2023, 9:30 am by Howard Bashman

Dorf has this post at his blog, “Dorf on Law. [read post]

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Federal judge in Arkansas says Supreme Court's Dobbs decision means Arkansas can criminalize adultery, masturbation and more

3 Apr 2023, 5:14 am by Brian Leiter

Informative analysis of a recent court opinion by constitutional law scholar Michael Dorf. [read post]