Just posted on the National Review home page is a short article of mine under the title The Pardon Power is Absolute (with the subheading “But so is Congress’ impeachment ...
This Thursday marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the worst Supreme Court decision of all time. Planned Parenthood v. Casey is worse than Roe, which itself ranks among the worst decisions ...
I’m stealing a page from Ed Whelan’s playbook and launching a series of (occasional) commemorations of acts of unbridled judicial chutzpah. Ed’s series focuses on judicial activism – judicial interpretations ...
The Supreme Court’s decision in The Slaughter-House Cases (1873) remains, at least in academic circles, a hotly contested battleground of competing legal theories concerning the meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment’s ...
Last week, I posted a highly critical response to William Watkins Jr.’s Wall Street Journal op-ed on the Trinity Lutheran Church case. Mr. Watkins has posted a reply to my ...
I have the pleasure of participating today (in just a few hours) in a conference at Stanford Law School, sponsored by the Stanford Constitutional Law Center – headed by my ...
Last week, the Wall Street Journal published a bizarre op-ed by William Watkins Jr. on the Trinity Lutheran Church v. Comer case, entitled “A Case the Justices Shouldn’t Have Heard.” ...
This is the last in a series of three posts engaging my friend John Yoo’s argument that Trump’s Syria Strike Was Constitutional. John was responding in part to my National ...