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9 Sep 2010, 2:34 pm
BuchananThis past Friday, I sat in on a guest presentation in Cornell Law Professor Robert Summers's jurisprudence seminar. [read post]
2 Mar 2012, 6:15 am
BuchananIn a recent post here on Dorf on Law, Professor Robert Hockett discussed some important policy analysis and advocacy in which he has recently engaged (with co-authors), including a legislative proposal to help homeowners who are unable to stay current on their mortgages. [read post]
22 May 2023, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
” Even the most committed textualist should find that laughable.To be fair, Klein frames that discussion as a matter of asking what three arch-conservative Supreme Court justices—John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, and Neil Gorsuch—might be convinced to endorse, and he notes later in the essay that this Supreme Court has shown us that once-nutty arguments are no longer off the table.Even so, when Klein turns his attention to the second argument, this is his transition sentence:… [read post]
18 Nov 2014, 6:30 am by Dan Ernst
Buchanan’s public choice theory into the thinking of conservative political and legal figures. [read post]
23 Oct 2016, 5:48 am by Brooke
 Finally, Robert Strauss is interviewed on NPR about his Worst. [read post]
22 Aug 2007, 5:25 am
Buchanan]As noted on several occasions in recent months, here, here, and here, hypocrisy is often used to attack one's credibility. [read post]
30 Oct 2019, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
Seriously, however, the point is that the special counsel’s report from Robert S. [read post]
4 Nov 2018, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
The generation that had bravely decided to end the Great Depression by putting aside economic orthodoxy—thus saving our version of mixed capitalism for future generations—almost blew it by listening to isolationists like Ohio’s Senator Robert Taft.That means that, if time were not linear, we would have wanted American elections to count the votes of the people who might have been forced to live under American Nazism in a Hitlerian colony. [read post]
21 May 2023, 9:00 pm by Neil H. Buchanan and Michael C. Dorf
As the country and the world await news of whether Republicans’ decision to use the debt ceiling as a political weapon will lead to utter catastrophe, pundits and reporters alike are asking whether there is an out that would allow the Democrats to sidestep the Republicans’ attempted extortion.The question is: “out” from what, exactly? [read post]
27 Apr 2014, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
In fact, however, the purveyors of the idea of “tax freedom” are riffing off of an argument that was advanced by the late libertarian philosopher Robert Nozick. [read post]
23 Mar 2022, 9:00 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
The editorial board of The New York Times made a calculated splash last weekend by publishing a lead editorial under the headline: “America Has a Free Speech Problem. [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]
22 Apr 2019, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
The Sanders critique is the one advanced by left-wing media critics such as Noam Chomsky and Robert McChesney, in which corporate control of the media leads it to cover scandal and gossip, which is not a threat to their power, instead of policy—which is.Precisely. [read post]
19 Nov 2014, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
Even so, a motivated group of conservative justices could decide to engage in naked partisan politics in that case, which would (among other things) allow Chief Justice Roberts to rehabilitate himself in conservatives’ eyes, after his vote to uphold the ACA in the 2012 NFIB v. [read post]
7 Mar 2018, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
The answer is that the way the non-scandal is being wound down is instructive, and we are now seeing ever more clearly the damage that comes from attacking an essential agency of government.The Anatomy of the Non-ScandalReaders who wish to read a non-opinion news article summarizing the IRS non-scandal would be well served by reading a Washington Post piece by Robert O’Harrow, Jr. that ran in December 2017. [read post]
16 Sep 2021, 5:00 am by Neil H. Buchanan
The bill is weaker than it should be, it would probably be passed too late to undo the damage that Republicans have already wrought, and the Supreme Court’s radicalized conservative majority (including Chief Justice Roberts) would probably gut the law, as it did the 1965 Voting Rights Act. [read post]