Balkinization

Over on bluesky, my fellow blogger Mark Tushnet expressed his "frustration" with what the " progressive commentariat" h...

Sandy Levinson and I have uploaded a draft of our latest essay,  Casebooks, Canons, and Constitutional Memory , to SSRN. Here is the abstrac...

      For months, those challenging the Trump Administration’s massive impoundment of appropriated funds have been left to try to divine dee...

Earlier this year, when President Donald Trump issued an executive order that expelled transgender troops from the U.S. military, the admini...

         On August 13, a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit handed down an opinion on President Trump’...

August 11, 2025 Jarrett B. Perlow Clerk of the Court U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit 717 Madison Place, NW Washington, DC 2043...

Stephen Macedo and Frances Lee, distinguished political scientists who teach at Princeton, have published a deeply provocative look at the n...

By one reckoning, there are a group of fugitives in Illinois who are wanted alive and able to answer a quorum call in Texas. Article Four, S...

        The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) that Congress passed this summer represents the third massive cutting spree in the history of...

The Supreme Court Historical Society awarded the Griswold Prize to Washington's Heir . I'll give a lecture at the Court on Septembe...

     Section 20011 of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) declares “there are appropriated to the Secretary of Defense for fiscal year ...