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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.
Republicans Decry Nonexistent Religious Bigotry at Coney Barrett Hearing
Instead, Democrats stuck to a quotidian but reality-based argument about how Trump’s nominee would scrap the Affordable Care Act.
John Roberts Ponders Partisanship. (Cue the Groans.)
The Supreme Court is political, divided, and not the honest referee the Chief Justice promised. Harold Pinter would recognize this play.
Amy Coney Barrett’s Stare Decisis Problem—And Ours
She respects precedent less than Antonin Scalia, meaning she’s ready to join Clarence Thomas and start taking a hammer to long standing decisions
Remembering Ruth Bader Ginsburg
The words she wrote and the deeds she performed are left behind as a gift to an uncertain future.
