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19 Feb 2020, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
There was never any mystery about Donald Trump’s ignorance of the Constitution or his disdain for the rule of law. [read post]
10 Oct 2021, 8:42 pm by Aaron Moss
 (Even if you haven’t read the book, you’re probably familiar with the general plot, which has loosely inspired countless films including “Trading Places. [read post]
9 Nov 2022, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
We’re on the edge of a brutal authoritarian system, and it could be a week away. [read post]
6 Jun 2023, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan and Michael C. Dorf
In short order over the last two weeks, the latest debt ceiling crisis was defused, the date of the next crisis was all but set in stone, and the political class quickly moved on to “previously scheduled programming”—that is, to the many ongoing crises that the debt ceiling standoff had pushed off the front pages for more than a month.Hindsight bias may leave the impression that this result was foreordained, but it was not. [read post]
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]
17 Oct 2022, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
Because that particular columnist is a right-winger, she wrapped her story in the standard “vote against Democrats, because they’re burdening the future with their big spending” spin that Republicans love so much. [read post]
6 Sep 2024, 9:13 am by Eugene Volokh
Supreme Court, in an opinion by Justice James Bassett, joined by Chief Justice Gordon MacDonald and Justice Patrick Donovan (for more on the general legal principle here, which emerges from mid-1900s concluding similarly as to allegation of Communist sympathies, see this post): The plaintiff is the father of two children enrolled in the Hanover School District …. [read post]
5 Sep 2019, 9:12 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
Even without the grotesque inequality that has re-emerged in the United States since (not coincidentally) the beginning of Ronald Reagan’s presidency more than a generation ago, Americans overwhelmingly support the idea that people should pay more in taxes as percentages of their income and wealth as they move up the ladder.Indeed, I put the words “everyone’s taxes” in scare quotes earlier in this column when I described the objection to having government provide… [read post]
15 Jan 2020, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
  Democrats were apparently supposed to say, “We’re all terrified of Trump winning, so we can’t do anything but be unified at all times. [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]
12 Apr 2023, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
In the video, it appears he did not recognize that she was the administrator he had requested; “You’re an administrator? [read post]
10 Jul 2014, 6:41 am by Schachtman
The recent issue of Environmental Health Perspectives contains several interesting articles on scientific methodology of interest to lawyers who litigate claimed health effects.[1] The issue also contains a commentary that argues for greater transparency in science and science policy, which should be a good thing, but yet the commentary has the potential to obscure and confuse. [read post]
18 Mar 2020, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
Moreover, he notes that “Congress could include a relatively short sunset provision to ensure timely re-evaluation. [read post]
20 Jan 2021, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
” As a logical matter, because we cannot re-run history to see what might have turned out differently, we can never know with certainty that we actually were on the precipice of disaster.But what we saw in late 2020 and early 2021 is best analogized to an automobile with iffy brakes careening down a winding canyon road, accelerating as the car tilts up onto two wheels, with death averted only through luck and just-in-time steering away from disaster. [read post]
23 Sep 2020, 9:00 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
They’re why these quisling lawmakers held their noses and accepted so much bad, sometimes criminal, behavior from this administration.The balance of Rampell’s column is devoted to listing all of the ways in which Republicans have sold their collective souls: “The lure of packing the bench with conservative justices is presumably why Republican officials abandoned their putative commitments to limited government and free markets,” to free trade, and so on. [read post]
27 Jan 2021, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
Two days ago, all but five of the fifty sitting Republican United States Senators voted to dismiss the House’s second impeachment of Donald Trump, relying on the nakedly dishonest argument that the Constitution does not allow former federal officials to be impeached and tried by Congress. [read post]