Balkinization

The Rehnquist Center is pleased to announce the third annual National Conference of Constitutional Law Scholars. The conference will be held...

Amity Shlaes and Josh Blackman responded to my post  on Justice Gorsuch's references to her book in Gundy v. United States . I have wri...

Here are the collected posts for our Balkinization symposium on Lawrence Lessig's new book, Fidelity and Constraint: How the Supreme ...

The New Rambler , an on-line review of books that had a short-ish but distinguished run a few years ago, has relaunched. I review the terri...

For the symposium on Lawrence Lessig,  Fidelity and Constraint: How the Supreme Court Has Read the American Constitution  (Oxford University...

I have just posed a draft of my latest piece, Translating the Constitution , on SSRN. This is a review of Larry Lessig's new book, Fidel...

     Media accounts of the budget agreement President Trump signed August 2 have been all over the map.   It therefore seems useful to...

           The answer to the question in my title is obvious, isn't it?:   Of course Congress can do so.  A ccording to Dona...

     Those urging the House of Representatives to impeach President Trump seem roughly to fall into two groups.   One sees a resolution of...

My new piece for The Washington Post about why the Mueller hearings show impeachment needs to start now. "If the president is reelec...

The Supreme Court will shortly consider whether Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits sex discrimination in employment,...

Both Mark Tushnet’s and then Richard Primus’s posts, each on Justice Gorsuch’s overconfident assertions about highly debatable matters of h...

An earlier post on this blog by Mark Tushnet explained that Justice Gorsuch’s dissent in Gundy v. United States , which fires a loud sho...