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Promoting the Importance of Originalism
Ramesh Ponnuru recently spoke about the merits of originalism. It turns out that it is not beyond human wit to apply that understanding to novel situations that arise even after…
Antonin Scalia
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1986 to 2016
Liberty
Time for a New Trump Judges List
Editors at National Review Online suggest that former President Donald Trump ought to release a new list of prospective federal judicial appointments. Two of the unprecedented things Donald Trump did…
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Handicapping the Supreme Court’s Options in the Trump Disqualification Case
Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution states: No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold…
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Overruling Chevron for ‘Steady Administration’
Adam White writes for the Yale Journal on Regulation about problems linked to Chevron deference. When the Supreme Court met last week to reconsider judicial deference to agencies’ legal interpretations,…
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Biden’s Executive Action As ‘Lawless Royalism’
Editors at National Review Online tell us what they really think about President Biden’s executive action regarding college student debt. The president’s abuse of “emergency” wartime powers passed in the…
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Reading List for the New Year
Quin Hillyer offers the Washington Examiner suggestions for enlightening reading in the new year. If you are like me, you have more books on the shelves than you can ever…
Elections & Public Integrity
Justice Berger Channels His Inner Scalia in Voter ID Dissent
With the Republican sweep of Supreme Court elections last November, we will soon see more of what Justice Berger's majority opinions look like.
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Unanimous Supreme Court Boosts Free Speech
Nicole Russell writes for the Washington Examiner about a welcome ruling from the nation’s highest court. [T]he Supreme Court ruled 9-0 that the city of Boston violated the First Amendment…
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Jackson Might Have Set New Standard With Embrace of ‘Original Public Meaning’
Adam White writes at CNN.com about one of the most significant aspects of the latest U.S. Supreme Court confirmation hearing. For decades, US Supreme Court confirmation hearings have taken center…
Law & Public Safety
“Academics say Biden SCOTUS nominee should recuse herself in Harvard admissions case”
That’s the title of a recent piece at the College Fix. The author, Christian Schneider, goes on to say: A number of legal experts within academia have told The College Fix that Judge…
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Rooting For an ‘Insane’ Supreme Court Nominee
Margot Cleveland of the Federalist explains why she believes conservatives should root for President Biden to nominate an awful candidate for the U.S. Supreme Court. With Thursday’s official announcement by…
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Republicans Unlikely to Vote for Breyer’s Successor
James Antle of the Washington Examiner highlights the politics of Supreme Court appointments. When Stephen Breyer was nominated to the Supreme Court by Democratic President Bill Clinton in 1994, just…