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 essential premise of fascism is that the individual has no existence save as part of the collective. I've been wrestling with this ever since it became clear that Trump is going to get back into power last night. So much of my identity is wrapped up in
After a hiatus of slightly more than two months, here, finally, is the second part of my series on How (Not) to Reform the Supreme Court! This time, I'm covering what I consider to be the single most important piece of any court reform effort: court-packing, these days
My How (Not) To Reform the Supreme Court series got slightly interrupted by my month off from writing here. But yesterday Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR), one of the good ones, introduced a court reform proposal, and there's one particular feature of it that I wanted to comment on:
As I mentioned in my introductory post, one of my ambitions for this site is to create a resource library for those interested in learning about constitutional theory. This post is the first of what I hope will be many in that vein: a basic primer on the six so-called