I'm in Liberal Currents!
Cross-posting here: I have a piece today in Liberal Currents about why judicial review is essential for our democracy and that means we have to attack and dethrone (and then rebuild) the Supreme Court!
Cross-posting here: I have a piece today in Liberal Currents about why judicial review is essential for our democracy and that means we have to attack and dethrone (and then rebuild) the Supreme Court!
The Supreme Court, in a per curiam opinion that seems like it was probably written by Chief Justice John Roberts, just vacated District Judge Boasberg's order preventing the Trump Administration from "deporting" Venezuelan nationals to a slave camp in El Salvador under the Alien Enemies Act
Over the last couple of weeks we've been having an exceptionally tiresome debate about birthright citizenship. Two conservative legal scholars, Randy Barnett and Ilan Wurman, have been arguing in various public fora that the overwhelming scholarly consensus that the Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment means what it
In the last few days, people have started wondering whether we're in a constitutional crisis. Sensible enough, given everything that's going on. But not everyone is convinced. There's certainly something afoot, they grant, but perhaps it is only a "constitutional moment," not
People are starting to talk about remaking the Constitution. It makes sense, right? We're in a state of constitutional collapse due to the election of a usurper president, and his campaign of usurpation since taking office sixteen days ago. Constitutional rules are being trampled left and right, indeed