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21 Nov 2020, 2:27 pm by Ilya Somin
As co-blogger Keith Whittington explains, Trump's efforts to get GOP-controlled state legislators to appoint pro-Trump electors in states where Joe Biden won the popular vote are also nearly certain to fail. [read post]
20 Oct 2020, 8:00 am by JB
" Whittington's 2019 book, Repugnant Laws, shows that the familiar assumption that the Supreme Court did not use judicial review to limit or strike down Congressional statutes between Marbury and Dred Scott is false. [read post]
1 Sep 2020, 5:00 am by JB
But when constitutional rot is advanced, the Supreme Court is likely to be ineffective and may even make matters worse. [read post]
25 Aug 2020, 10:07 am by Keith E. Whittington
There are extreme cases when academics might be so wrong about a matter within their professional competence that it calls into question their professional fitness to hold an academic position, but Eastman is nowhere near that line. [read post]
24 Aug 2020, 4:04 am by SHG
Imposing such limits on scholarly research, no matter how well-intentioned—and no matter how unpopular the target—puts unhealthy constraints on freedom of thought. [read post]
23 Aug 2020, 12:51 pm by Keith E. Whittington
On matters related to race, the proposal advises scholars not to follow evidence wherever it may lead but rather to question whether the evidence serves the desired political narrative. [read post]
13 Aug 2020, 4:20 am by SHG
As Brian Leiter notes, there’s a huge gap between swearing allegiance to anti-racism and believing that black lives matter. [read post]
3 Aug 2020, 6:52 pm by Keith E. Whittington
Universities in particular should model such tolerance precisely because universities are important sites for public debate about matters of general concern. [read post]
14 Jul 2020, 9:06 am by Keith E. Whittington
It is a straightforward matter to make it explicit that a president cannot pardon himself, and it should not be hard to take pardons of immediate family members off the table as well. [read post]
23 Jun 2020, 1:43 pm by Sandy Levinson
  If one accepts those views, to put it mildly that gives no comfort to anyone wishing to say that there is some kind of “fact of the matter” to which our words must correspond. [read post]
11 May 2020, 10:00 am by Guest Blogger
Presumably, if the Constitution mattered, it must have had some agreed meaning and authority that moved everyone in public life to accept it as the frame within which politics worked. [read post]
7 May 2020, 7:06 pm by Ilya Somin
And in various passages in his post, Josh lists parallels between the two cases, and suggests the Supreme Court in the Bridgegate case resolved the relevant issues in favor of Trump's side of the matter. [read post]
20 Mar 2020, 7:20 pm by Ilya Somin
That might not matter if the legal arguments were overwhelmingly in favor of the plaintiffs. [read post]
20 Mar 2020, 8:37 am by Keith E. Whittington
If we were discussing a new permanent social program, then such design details would matter a great deal and should be central to the debate, but we are not. [read post]