The system of checks and balances devised by the founders didn’t envision all three branches being enthralled by a leader like Trump, and it can still happen.
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Noncitizens Are Not Voting in Massive Numbers
Don’t believe the hype: Federal law prohibits them from voting, and there’s no evidence that they’re doing so in any numbers that could sway elections.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Trump Is Coming for Birthright Citizenship
The Republican presidential nominee wants to wipe away the 156-year-old guarantee that if you’re born here, you’re American. Don’t think he can’t.
Posted inPolitics
How Donald Trump is Channeling Machiavelli
Trump’s Threats to Prosecute and Imprison Critics Are More Serious than You May Think. Or How Trump Echoes Niccolo Machiavelli’s brutal advice for rulers.
Posted inLaw and Justice
The Supreme Court Should Listen to Congress in Ghost Guns Case
The Gun Control Act of 1968 outlawed untraceable weapons assembled from kits. That was as true then as it is now in the age of 3D printers.
Posted inProtecting the Vote
The Intriguing Role Public Financing of Campaigns Played in the Eric Adams Indictments
The Intriguing Role Public Financing of Campaigns Played in the Eric Adams Indictments/ NYC’s stringent accounting for publicly funded elections raised a very big red flag,
Posted inLaw and Justice
The Chaos of the Supreme Court’s Last Term—and What May Be Coming This Time
The Chaos of the Supreme Court’s Last Term—and What May Be Coming This Time. With their new term starting October 7, the nine justices face roiling legal waters and the bench’s profound dysfunction. A deep dive into an institution that is “not well.”
Posted inPolitics
Harris Shows How to Dismantle a Would-Be Dictator
Harris Shows How to Dismantle a Would-Be Dictator. Humor, ridicule, gut punches, and that look of puzzlement and contempt were just some of the tools the vice president used to take down Trump.
Posted inPolitics
A Lot of People Underestimated Harris
A Lot of People Underestimated Harris: After a meteoric rise in California politics, her 2020 presidential bid was a pratfall. As a veep, she sometimes gave word-salad interviews but came roaring back. Tonight, she faces down Trump after disproving the doubters.
Posted inCollege Guide
The Origin of Specious
Originalism, the school of constitutional interpretation currently modish among conservative lawyers and judges, is not so much an idea as a legal-industrial complex divided into three parts—the academic, the jurisprudential, and the political. In its first part, originalism is an academic pursuit, one that a large number of law scholars have embraced with gusto. A […]
