American legal scholar
Philip Hamburger explores the implications of a major recent US Supreme Court ruling. When Donald Trump fired a Joe Biden–appointed member of the Federal Trade Commission, Rebecca Slaughter, she sued…
Philip Hamburger explains why California’s proposed wealth tax strays from constitutional boundaries. California’s proposed billionaire tax is unconstitutional. The ballot initiative calling for one-time retroactive 5% tax on the net…
Joel Alicea writes about one of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’ most significant majority opinions. New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen heralded a potential revolution in the…
That’s a line from a recent blogpost by consitutional scholar Randy Barnett. Here’s another excerpt: Columbia Law School Professor Philip Hamburger has an important essay this weekend on the Wall…
Andrew McCarthy of National Review Online highlights a flawed approach toward fighting indoctrination in public schools. When it comes to exposing the illegitimacy of the administrative state, Columbia Law School…
Joy Pullmann of the Federalist points to a core issue in the debate about what’s taught in public schools. Contempt for the kind of self-government that starts with families also…
In a Daily Caller piece last week, Philip Hamburger asked, “If Jeff Sessions steps down as attorney general, who will replace him?” With the President’s recent announcement that Sessions has,…
George Leef’s latest Forbes column focuses on the Obama administration’s effort to put a college chain out of business. When the Department of Education was established in 1979, no one…
View in your browser. As I have previously reported, last May US Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I) proposed subjecting people who make politically incorrect statements about climate change to criminal…
Earlier this year, George Mason University law professor Frank Buckley suggested in a speech to the John Locke Foundation’s Shaftesbury Society that American government is growing closer to the type…
Scott Johnson explores for National Review Online readers the historical precedents of President Obama’s use of executive power. Every day the headlines bring news of the Obama administration’s rule by…
Columbia University law professor Philip Hamburger writes here about the lack of legal authority for the president or his executive branch minions to grant waivers from statutes. Kings could grant…