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Today the Senate Democrats introduced what they style the "No Kings Act," which purports to overrule Trump v. United States. Now, you may be saying, wait a minute, Trump v. U.S. was a constitutional case, how can Congress overrule it by ordinary legislation? The answer is that
President Joe Biden has just this morning published an op-ed in the Washington Post sketching out his plan for Supreme Court reform. I want to say right off the bat that, completely aside from the details of his plan, this is great to see. We absolutely need court reform, and
This site is basically not for doing political commentary. But I think there's an interesting political-philosophy wrinkle to this week's rather momentous political developments. One theme of the first few hours after Joe Biden withdrew from the race for president and Vice President Kamala Harris became
The other day, while discussing court reform on Bluesky, I described the arguments against construing the phrase "good behavior" in Article III as meaning life tenure as "sophomoric textualism." What did I mean by that? The idea here is that there's a phase everyone