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Tuesday, August 04, 2026

The Iran War and the War Powers Debate (Part 1)

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President Trump’s February decision to go to war with Iran has produced a negative reaction in Congress and inspired another round in the wa...
Sunday, August 02, 2026

The Groundhog Day Tariffs and the Problem of Executive Discretion

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       Amidst a flurry of wildly erroneous charts and figures President Trump announced his “Liberation Day” tariffs on April 2, 2025.   The...
Friday, July 31, 2026

Presidential Accountability and the Twenty-Second Amendment: A Little Math

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      Note:   Having just spent the morning writing a short essay about the Twenty-Second Amendment, I was dismayed to find that Jeffrey Gor...

Trump v. Slaughter and the Twenty-Second Amendment

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Jeffrey N. Gordon               Supreme Court decisions of the recent term threaten to undermine the regulatory system that has supported ...
Thursday, July 30, 2026

Justified and Unjustified Loss of Trust (in institutions)

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You may have heard of the “ Yale Report ” – in April Yale University released a thoroughly researched response to public concern with univer...
Tuesday, July 28, 2026

Dobbs and Now B.P.J.

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Reva Siegel & Mary Ziegler Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), the conservative Christian legal organization that litigated Dobbs , is n...
Friday, July 24, 2026

From Off the Wall to On the Wall: How Social Power Shapes Legal Reason

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I've posted my latest article, From Off the Wall to On the Wall: How Social Power Shapes Legal Reason , to SSRN. Here is the abstract: T...
Tuesday, July 21, 2026

Fiscal Floundering

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      Our nation continues its transition from congressional to presidential fiscal control.   Retainers of the ancièn regime (“Members of ...
Friday, July 17, 2026

America at 250: A “Christian Nation,” But Which Christianity?

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Arvind Kurian Abraham As fireworks lit up the sky this Fourth of July, the United States of America turned 250. Barring the heatwave, the ce...
Wednesday, July 15, 2026

Saint Alito

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Hagiography is an old literary form, dating back to early Christianity.  It recounts the lives of the saints in order to elicit the audience...
Monday, July 13, 2026

The State of the Article V Convention Battle

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      Yesterday I suggested that progressives should reconsider the wisdom of increasing the weight and impact of decisions made in the curr...