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- Constitution [book review] “Betraying the Constitution” by Philip Hamburger 6-30-14Constitution – Obama unilateral changes to laws 6-24-14
- Constitution. LTE. “Let’s Restore Congress to Its Constitutional Function.” 11-21-14
- Constitution. “Highway to the Danger Ozone.” [As Obama rewrites the law, Congress and the courts push back.] 11-28-14
- Constitution. “In Defense of Pamela Geller.” By Bret Stephens. [A society that rejects the notion of a heckler’s veto cannot accept the idea of a murderer’s veto.] 5-12-15
- Constitution. LTE. “Can an Aversion to Criticism Ever Be Constitutional? “ 5-13-15
- Constitution. LTE. “Three Cheers for the 95% of PEN Who Support Charlie [Hebdo].” 5-12-15
- Constitution. “America the Indispensable.” By Rupert Murdoch. [Like so many naturalized citizens, I felt that I was an American before I formally became one.] 12-2-15
- Constitution. “The First Amendment Needs Your Prayers.” By Peggy Noonan. [Jumping on anyone who publicly expresses a religious feeling after the San Bernardino massacre. Where are we heading?] 12-5-15
- Constitution. LTE. “Because the Constitution Is What They Say.” 2-20-16
- Constitution. “The Never-Ending Battle Over How to Read the Constitution.” By Juan Willams. [Whether Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland is a ‘centrist’ distracts from a much bigger issue.] 4-2-16
- Constitution. LTE. “Last Call To Save American Exceptionalism.” 4-9-16
- Constitution. LTE “The Original Intent: ‘Living’ Via Amendment.” 4-12-16
- Constitution. “Gawker’s Damage.” [How Nick Denton’s website has hurt freedom of the press.] 6-13-16
- Constitution. “Pay to Play Goes to Court.” [A lawsuit charges that tort-bar collusion with prosecutors is illegal.] 6-17-16
- Constitution. “#FirstWorldTorts.” [Starbucks is accused of mass grande-latte fraud.] 6-25-16
- Constitution. “Teaching the ‘Habits of Democracy.’” (The Weekend Interview with W. Taylor Reveley 1V by Joseph Rago.) [The head of Longwood University, host of 2016’s vice-presidential debate, says liberal arts – and educated citizens – can fix what ails our politics.] 7-2-16
- Constitution. LTE. “Changing the Constitution and the Court, Too.” 7-30-16
- Constitution. “The ABA Overrules the First Amendment.” By Ron Rotunda. 8-17-16
- Constitution. “Holding Prosecutors Accountable.” [Targets of due-process abuse are seeking vindication in court.] 8-20-16
- Constitution. “’Clean Power’ Plays and the Last Stand for Federalism.” By David B. Rivkin, Jr and Andrew M. Grossman. [What will be left of our constitutional order if the EPA’s plan passes judicial muster?] 9-26-16
- Constitution. “A Trump-Ryan constitutional Revival.” By Christopher DeMuth. [Wariness of Trump might inspire Republicans in Congress to give up lazy delegation and relearn the art of legislating.] 11-26-16
- Constitution. LTE. “Jeb Bush, Trump and a Convention of States.” 12-3-16
- Constitution. “Five Ways to Restore the Separation of Powers.” By David B. Rivkin Jr. and Elizabeth Price Foley. [it isn’t enough for Trump to quickly rescind Obama’s executive orders.. Congress also needs to act.] 12-20-16
- Constitution. “Free Speech and Anti-Semitism.” By Ruth R. Wisse. [Obama’s anti-Israel politics show the need for the Anti-Semitism Awareness Act.] 12-30-16
- Constitution. “The constitution says Nothing About Behavioral Economics.” By Todd J. Zywicki and Geoffrey A. Manne. [A hair salon tells the Supreme Court that trendy research backs up its right to charge credit-card fees.] 1-10-17
- Constitution. “Kellyanne Conway and the Life of Her Party.” By Wm. McGurn. [On abortion, the Trump aide breaks another Beltway convention.]. 1-17-17
- Constitution. “Trademark This, Said The Slants.” [The Asian-American rockers have a free speech right to offend.] 1-18-17
- Constitution. Big Govt. “The President’s Right to Say ‘You’re Fired.” By Philip E. Howard. [Today’s civil-service system violates the Constitution. Trump has the power to fix it.] 1-30-17
- Constitution. “A Mosque for New Jersey.” [Religious liberty is for every American, including Muslims.] 6-5-17
- Constitution. “The First Amendment Is for Neo-Nazis, Too.” (The Weekend Interview with Richard A Epstein by Tunku Varadarajan.[Curbs on ‘offensive’ speech are unworkable and would turn the public square into the grievance Olympics.] 8-26-17
- Constitution. “Virginia’s Unhappy Hour.” [The restrictions on drink specials violate the First Amendment.] 4-5-18
- Constitution. “Judges Can Check the Administrative State.” By Peter J. Wallison. [Courts are too deferential when unelected officials supplant Congress’s role and write the law.] 4-6-18
- Constitution. “The Culture That Sustains America’s Constitution.” [Without it, checks and balances are barricades of foam and counterweights of butterfly’s breath.] 7-3-18
- Constitution. “How Conservatives Won the Law.” (The Weekend Interview with Steven Teles by Jason Willick) [A liberal political scientist recounts the rise of the Federalist Society – and explains his sympathy for some of its ideas.] 7-21-18
- Constitution. “Two New Lawsuits Seek to Stop Discrimination Against Religion.” By Tim Keller and Michael Bindas. [The cases seek to expand Supreme Court precedent and establish equality for sectarian education.] 8-21-18
- Constitution. “Happy Constitution Day, if You Can Keep It.” By Don Willett. [The long-term survival of the Founders’ design depends on people, not parchment.] 9-17-18
- Constitution. “Rewriting the Fourteenth Amendment.” [Trump’s order on birthright citizenship violates the Constitution.] 10-31-18
- Constitution. “Targeting the Electoral College.” [Democrats tee up another constitutional norm for a rewrite.] 3-20-19
- Constitution. “The Lovely but Unloved Electoral College.” By Karl Rove. [Abolishing it would import the worst aspects of European politics.] 4-11-19
- Constitution. “A Supreme Debate on Speech.” [The five conservatives preserve a key state-private distinction.] 6-19-19
- Constitution. “’Scandalous’ Speech is Protected.” [The Supreme Court hands the trademark Office another defeat.] 6-25-19
- Constitution. “Sobriety About the Commerce Clause.” [“…that the court (Supreme Court) long ago found that the 21st Amendment doesn’t override the rest of the Constitutional principles.] 6-27-19
- Constitution. “A Short History of Census Taking.” By John Steele Gordon. [The first U.S. enumeration was in 1790. But Egypt began millennia earlier.] 6-29-19
- Constitution. “Trump, Twitter and the First Amendment.” [An appellate ruling blurs the line between private and public forums.] 7-12-19
- Constitution. “What Ever Happened to ‘We the People’?” by Adam Carrington. [There’s more to the U.S. Constitution than its amendments. Give the preamble some respect.] 9-17-19
- Constitution. “Even the Experts Are Poorly Informed.” [If Nate Silver can’t grasp the First Amendment, how can anyone be expected to make sense of trade policy?] 10-25-19
- Constitution. “Most Pleas Bargains Are Unconstitutional.” By Alan M. Dershowitz. [Harsh punishments for defendants who exercise their right to trial violate the Sixth Amendment.] 11-6-19
- Constitution. “A Centenary for Free Speech.” By Ilya Shapiro and Michael T. Collins. [Holmes’ dissent in Abrams v. U.S. set the stage for broad First Amendment rights.] 11-8-19
- Constitution. “Congress Is he King.” [“…we hope this goes to the Supreme Court. The Constitution’s separation of powers assumes co-equal branches …] 11-27-19
- Constitution. “Of Speech and Profanity.] [A company enforcing civility in the workplace isn’t government action.] 12-2-19
- Constitution. “I Hand Out the Constitution, and It Makes Me Feel Great.” By Caroline Koster. [Do yourself a favor and reread the country’s founding document. I have a few copies left.] 12-31-19
- Constitution. “The Living Constitution’ Denied the Vote to Generations.” By Frank Scaturro. [If only late 19th century courts had followed the original meaning of the 15th Amendment.] 2-3-20
- Constitution. “Shut Up, They Advised.” By David R. Rivkin Jr. and Andrew M. Grossman. [A committee on judicial standards ignores the Constitution to rule against the Federalist Society.] 2-4-20
- Constitution. “Truth in Constitutional Amending.” [“…The ERA also isn’t necessary today…] 2-15-20
- Constitution. “Power In Numbers.” (Bookshelf by Lyman Stone.) “The Sum of the People” by Andrew Whitby. [Fear that census data might be used against religious minorities– as they were in the 1930s – is not a superstition to be mocked.] 3-30-20
- Constitution. “A Coup of Her Own.” [Nancy Pelosi’s nuclear option to protect the world from Trump.] 1-9-21
- Constitution. “The 12th Amendment’s Dangerous Defect.” By John Steele Gordon. [What if it had been up to Congress to choose the president Jan. 6th?] 2-23-21
- Constitution. “A Conservative Court Awakening.” [The Justices take another step to reinforce the separation of powers.] 6-26-21
- Constitution. “Portlandia vs. Texas.” [“…There will be more of these interstate commercial fights as polarization and geographic segregation by politics increase…”] 9-9-21
- Constitution. “Waiting for General Milley.” [The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs has more explaining to do.] 9-16-21
- Constitution. “The Amendment That Remade America.” (The weekend interview with Randy Barnett and Evan Bernick by Tunku Varadarajan. [The First? The Second? No, the 14th – the basis for every claim against a state government for violating individual rights. Two authors say it’s time to assert its original meaning.] 10-30-21
- Constitution. “Religious Schools and the Constitution.” [The Supreme Court could extend a landmark school-choice case.] 12-8-21
- Constitution. “The Unconstitutional Convictions You Don’t Know About.” By Clark Neily and Somil Trivedi. [Though right to a jury trial is enshrined in the Bill of Rights and Constitution, it’s hardly ever enforced.] 12-13-21
- Constitution. “Government Can’t Censor the Truth About Judges.” By Thomas Berry. [A well-intentioned bill to protect their privacy and safety runs afoul of the First Amendment.] 12-27-21
- Constitution. “Constitutional Thunder Out of Louisiana.” [A Fifth Circuit ruling on the SEC rebalances the separation of powers.] 5-23-22
- Constitution. “Restoring a Constitutional Climate.” [The Supreme Court sets guardrails on the administrative state.] 7-1-22
- Constitution. “Parental Authority Gets a Boost From Dobbs.” By Michael Toth. [The constitution protects unenumerated rights that are ‘deeply rooted’ in history and tradition.] 7-28-22
- Constitution. “The Philosopher Kings of North Carolina.” [Four state Justices invent a way to undo constitutional changes.] 8-29-22
- Constitution. “God Save Our Fundamental Freedoms.” By Lois McLatchie. [Scotland has been cracking down on free speech for some time.] 9-19-22
- Constitution. “Why I Joined Lindell’s Legal Team.” By Alan M Dershowitz. [Respect for civil liberties and the Constitution is more important than partisan differences.] 9-23-22
- Constitution. “Pence for the Constitution – Again.” [He has principle on his side in resisting Jack Smith’s subpoena.] 2-18-23
- Constitution. “Default on U.S. Debt Is Impossible.” By David B. Rivkin jr. and Lee A. Casey. [The Constitution makes clear that bondholders have to be paid, and other obligations aren’t ‘debt.’] 2-21-23
- Constitution. “Progressives Convinced Us To Get a Gun.” [It’s hypocritical to urge Americans to disarm while also failing to protect them from surging crime rates.] 4-24-23
- Constitution. “The Constitution Protects ‘Harmful’ Speech.” By Rahel Chiu. [The Kids Online Safety Act would be a license for censorship.] 8-14-23
- Constitution. “Judicial Values.” (Bookshelf by Tai Fortgang.) “How to Interpret the Constitution.” By Cass R. Sunstein. [Opponents of originalism make much of the supposed ambiguities in the Constitution. But is the text o the document really so unclear?] 12-13-23
- Constitution. “The Standoff in Eagle Pass, Texas.] [When Biden and Abbott clash, the Constitution is clear who must yield.] 2-3-24
- Constitution. “Is There Any Remedy When You’re Censored?” by Philip Hamburger. [The Supreme Court has three opportunities this term to give teeth to the First Amendment.] 2-26-24
- Constitution. “The Mayorkas impeachment Precedent.” 4-18-24
- Constitution. “Defining Free Speech Down on Campus.” [Progressives invoke a First Amendment they don’t understand.] 4-24-24
- Constitution. “Can the Constitution Reconcile America?” (The Weekend Interview with Yaval Levin by Barton Swaim.) [The U.S. founding charter was meant to keep us in a state of constant negotiation and dialogue.] 6-15-24
- Constitution. “Originalism and the Second Amendment.” [The Justices uphold a gun regulation amid five concurrences.] 6-22-24
- Constitution. “The Trump Gag Order Violates Your Freedom of Speech.” By Alan Dershowitz. [The First Amendment protects the right to hear speech, including his criticisms of the trial.] 6-22-24
- Constitution. “Free Speech Includes the Right to Boycott Israel.” By Daniel Shuchman. [Governments are fickle, and one will sooner or later target a viewpoint that you deem sacrosanct.] 7-31-24
- Constitution. “The Lefts Assault on the Constitution.” By Jonathan Turley. [It goes beyond proposals to pack the Supreme Court and even targets the freedom of speech.] 9-13-24
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