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Sunday, June 21, 2026

Power of the Purse V: How Transformations at the National Level Threaten Federalism

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      In four recent posts, I explained how President Trump is seizing large parts of the Power of the Purse from Congress and how this has...
Wednesday, June 17, 2026

Why Does Trump Want the Save America Act? The Answer Should Worry Us.

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On Wednesday, President Trump threatened to block the extension of the surveillance program, Section 702 of the  Foreign Intelligence Surve...
Wednesday, June 10, 2026

Remembering Gordon Wood: Religion and the Republic

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Arvind Kurian Abraham Gordon S. Wood, who tragically passed away, was arguably one of the greatest historians of the early American republic...
Monday, June 08, 2026

Second Annual Aspiring Free Speech Scholars Workshop

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Eugene Volokh Second Annual Aspiring Free Speech Scholars Workshop  jointly sponsored by the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law (ASU)  and t...
Saturday, June 06, 2026

The Power of the Purse IV: Redistributing Power among the Courts

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      As I previously described, the second Trump Administration has dramatically shifted the Power of the Purse from Congress to the Presi...
Friday, June 05, 2026

The Power of the Purse III: Shifts in Power within the Executive Branch

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      As I explained last week, President Trump has been systematically wresting away from Congress large parts of the Power of the Purse –...
Thursday, June 04, 2026

It's All Politics

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Well, they did it: On Tuesday evening, the Supreme Court found a way to make Callais worse.  They actually found several: they made an abso...

The Power of the Purse II: Shifts in Power within Congress

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     Over the decades, the major institutions of our federal government have adapted to their assigned roles.   When those roles undergo a d...
Monday, June 01, 2026

Reflections on Skowronek’s “The Adaptability Paradox”

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I’m sorry I didn’t participate in the symposium on Stephen Skowronek’s challenging new book, “The Adaptability Paradox.”   Skowronek probes ...