Garret Epps is the Legal Affairs Editor of the Washington Monthly and a professor of law emeritus at the University of Baltimore. He is the author of American Epic: Reading the U.S. Constitution and four other books about the Constitution.
Trump’s 1776 Commission: A Fable from the Future
It’s the worst, most bonkers history lesson no one asked for: The former president’s pushback on The 1619 Project. A legal scholar’s imaginative look back.
No, You Can’t Carry a Gun on the Floor of the House
Rep. Lauren Boebert and other members of the shoot-’em-up caucus think they have an unfettered right to pack heat in the Capitol and even in the House and Senate chambers. They don’t. Here’s why.
How the 14th Amendment Can Bar Ex-Presidents from Office
A primer on Section 3, the Constitutional words everyone is talking about.
After the Capitol Terror, Forget Those “Better Angels”
We cling to Lincoln’s call for reconciliation but we need a government and an Attorney General Merrick Garland who will punish the domestic terrorists.
How Fragile Is Our Democracy?
America survived the Trump era including its farcical last gasp. But, as two legal scholars explain, preserving freedom is complex.
