A once-theoretical debate among law school professors like me becomes real as Republicans lay siege to the full faith and credit of the United States, and a conservative Supreme Court probably won’t resist joining the fray.
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How a mild-mannered law professor became the architect of a scheme to overturn a presidential election.
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Inside the ruling in the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals striking down a gun ban for those who have committed domestic violence.
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Write. Edit. Rethink. Rewrite. Repeat.
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Rob Schenck, the evangelical pastor turned spymaster, has unearthed how the high court really works and highlights the need for Congress and the public to rein in the rogue justices.
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Another Republican-engineered default crisis is looming, but this time a Democratic president should use a little-understood provision in the Fourteenth Amendment to save the day.
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Twice before in history, the Supreme Court has allowed itself to become an arm of one political party, with catastrophic results. Only the voters can save us from the same fate today.
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At the January 6 hearings this week, Ruby Freeman recalled counting ballots on Election Night—and how Trump, Giuliani, and their goons tore her life apart.
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In its second public hearing, the committee exposes a White House as laughable as it was criminal.
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Congressional hearings tend to leave sounds and images lingering in the mind. I will never forget the methodical drone of John Dean’s voice explaining that he had told Richard Nixon there was a cancer on his presidency, or the bland sangfroid of Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman correcting Representative Devin Nunes, “Ranking member, it’s ‘Lieutenant Colonel […]
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