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12 Feb 2020, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
”My argument, setting aside variations and important nuances, is ultimately quite simple: Trump has made it clear (as have others, including his former lawyer Michael Cohen) that he has no intention of accepting any election result that does not show him winning decisively. [read post]
5 Apr 2022, 9:01 pm by Sherry F. Colb
About five years ago, I moderated a (friendly) debate at Cornell Law School about hate speech. [read post]
16 Jul 2011, 6:07 pm by Guest Blogger
” If Professor Buchanan were right that “debt” and “obligation” mean the same thing, then the phrase “debt or obligation” would be redundant.(2) Legislative history: As Michael Stern has pointed out, Congress rejected an earlier version of the clause that would have protected “debts or obligations. [read post]
8 Feb 2021, 9:00 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
Conservative legal scholar and former federal judge Michael McConnell (with whom I rarely agree) has noted that the Constitution bestows power on the Senate to try “all” impeachments, and all impeachments must include impeachments of presidents who are no longer in office. [read post]
20 Sep 2021, 9:01 pm by Sherry F. Colb
Early next month at Cornell Law School, the Federalist Society is hosting an event at which a pro-life visitor, Samuel Greene, will be debating and discussing abortion with my friend and colleague, Professor Deborah Dinner. [read post]
8 Dec 2010, 9:10 am
As people who have become conscious of the injustice of animal exploitation, Michael Dorf  -- who attended the presentation -- and I both noticed the missing piece in the moral calculus:  what made the trip to the store wrong had little to do with the the hypothetical man's expired license and much to do with his decision to buy the milk of a cow. [read post]
9 Sep 2015, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
Although Professor Michael Dorf and I have shown that the president would be constitutionally required in such circumstances to issue debt beyond the statutory limit (see, for example, this Verdict column from early 2013), Republicans have insisted that he would instead be forced to refuse to make legally required payments, in full and on time, when they come due. [read post]
27 Jan 2015, 9:01 pm by Joanna L. Grossman
The day that proponents and opponents of same-sex marriage have variously feared and desired has come: The Supreme Court has agreed to decide once and for all whether it is unconstitutional for states to ban the celebration of marriages by same-sex couples and/or to refuse recognition to such marriages validly celebrated out of state. [read post]
4 Dec 2018, 9:00 pm by Sherry F. Colb
The Centers for Disease Control recently reported that women had 24% fewer abortions in 2015 (the year of the last completed survey) than in 2006. [read post]
16 Jun 2019, 9:01 pm by Sherry F. Colb
In my last column, I took up the question of whether abolishing the insanity defense violates the Constitution. [read post]
19 Nov 2019, 9:01 pm by Sherry F. Colb
Everyone knows that blackmail is illegal. [read post]
12 Feb 2019, 9:01 pm by Sherry F. Colb
I have been pro-choice virtually from the moment that I learned what people meant when they said “pro-life. [read post]
22 Feb 2021, 9:01 pm by Sherry F. Colb
The Tennessee state legislature is considering a bill that would allow the father of a pregnancy to obtain an injunction against the mother’s having an abortion. [read post]
7 Jan 2016, 8:47 am by Dawn Johnsen
The insightful concluding sentence of Michael Dorf’s post provides an excellent starting point: “The only real question in this case is the one that Charles Black saw at issue in Brown v. [read post]