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23 Oct 2018, 1:26 pm by John Floyd
  Trump’s former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn, his former 2016 presidential campaign manager Paul Manafort, his deputy campaign manager Rick Gates, his personal attorney Michael Cohen, and former foreign policy advisor George Papadopoulos have all pled guilty to federal felony charges involving criminal wrongdoing taken at the behest of the president or in some way connected to him. [read post]
11 Jan 2017, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
I published a book of essays on that topic in 2013, and Michael Dorf and I have co-authored a series of law review articles in which we explored the ramifications of congressional Republicans’ hostage-taking actions regarding the debt ceiling since 2011.Even so, the debt ceiling should never have been a big deal in the first place. [read post]
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]
11 Apr 2013, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
The Buchanan/Dorf argument, therefore, amounts to saying that the President must spend as Congress ordered him to spend—neither more nor less than the law requires, on the projects for which Congress appropriated funds. [read post]
17 Jan 2017, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
And modesty is a quality that we are unlikely to see in the new Administration.In the series of articles that Michael Dorf and I wrote about the debt ceiling over the last several years, we investigated the impossible situation that a debt-ceiling crisis would create for the president. [read post]
6 Nov 2014, 6:41 pm by Michael Froomkin
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6 Feb 2019, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
Senator Elizabeth Warren has been the most creative policy thinker in Washington ever since she arrived on the scene little more than a decade ago. [read post]
28 Apr 2021, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
Some very long-time readers of Verdict might recall that I, sometimes alone and sometimes with Professor Michael Dorf, became consumed by the debt ceiling during the Obama years. [read post]
30 Mar 2016, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
What I call the “baseline problem” is the simple notion that there is no set of laws that is obviously the right-and-true minimal set of laws, with any deviation from those laws a violation of the laws of nature.On one of my recent Dorf on Law posts regarding international trade, my fellow Verdict columnist Michael Dorf offered the following thought experiment:The internal trade law of the U.S. [read post]
6 Sep 2018, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
My Verdict colleague Michael Dorf recently addressed one aspect of the latter question, suggesting that there is a small but nontrivial amount of work that state supreme courts can undertake that would slow the US Supreme Court’s upcoming roll. [read post]
24 Apr 2018, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
In a recent column, Professors Sherry Colb and Michael Dorf wrote about a sub-controversy that arose from the first episode of the “Roseanne” reboot, in which Conner dismisses two shows built around nonwhite families with a snarky and cutting remark. [read post]
18 Nov 2015, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
The world is still in the early stages of trying to comprehend the horrors that took place in Paris last week. [read post]
15 Feb 2017, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
It can feel almost impossible to catch up.The biggest story to date has been the resignation of now-former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn. [read post]
28 Aug 2013, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
In a series of academic articles published in 2012 and earlier this year, my fellow Verdict columnist Michael Dorf and I described this as a “trilemma,” a situation in which the President will be forced to violate at least one of the laws that Congress has passed: a spending law, the tax law, or the debt-ceiling law. [read post]
2 Nov 2016, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
Imagine being a first-time voter in 1988, when the choices were the older George Bush or Michael Dukakis. [read post]
19 Dec 2012, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
The post-election negotiations over the misnamed “fiscal cliff” (which I discussed in my most recent Verdict column) continue to keep the country on a rollercoaster ride. [read post]
22 May 2023, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
His misanalysis is quite enlightening.Last week, I wrote a column here on Verdict in which I ridiculed a recent guest op-ed in The Times by a conservative professor named Michael McConnell, who set up one of the most transparently weak strawman arguments that I have ever seen. [read post]