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15 Dec 2023, 12:17 pm by Josh Blackman
Immediately after Justice Antonin Scalia passed away in 2016, the Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell, refused to hold confirmation hearings for any successor chosen by Mr. [read post]
18 May 2023, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
Consider his well-known statement in an 1810 letter to John Colvin: [A] strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the high duties of a good citizen: but it is not the highest. the laws of necessity, of self-preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation. to lose our country by a scrupulous adherence to written law, would be to lose the law itself, with life, liberty, property & all those who are enjoying them with us;… [read post]
13 Sep 2022, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
  I had not previously met Jeanne Sheehan Zaino or Wilfred Codrington (though I did happily blurb the book on constitutional amendment that Wilfred co-authored with John Kowal). [read post]
5 Aug 2022, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
It is foolhardy to deny the continued relevance of W. [read post]
24 Mar 2022, 6:01 am by Joshua Braver
But the new Constitution—the Constitution not of the Founding Fathers but of Lincoln, Frederick Douglass and Martin Luther King Jr. [read post]
12 Feb 2021, 11:53 am by Philip Bobbitt
Frank Bowman recently published an essay in Lawfare that criticized arguments I made in an essay on the site. [read post]
19 Sep 2019, 1:52 pm by Bob Bauer
With the exception of Nixon’s White House counsel John Dean, McGahn had the most extraordinarily troubled relationship with a president of any counsel ever to have served in that post. [read post]
21 Jul 2016, 1:54 pm by Eugene Volokh
A very helpful and interesting paper by my colleague Sam Bray — one of the nation’s top remedies scholars — which he kindly agreed to let me pass along (also available in PDF here): equity, n. [read post]