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Author: Rob Natelson

Rob Natelson is the Independence Institute’s Senior Fellow in Constitutional Jurisprudence and heads the Institute’s Article V Information Center. He was a law professor for 25 years, serving at three different universities. Among other subjects, he taught Constitutional Law, Constitutional History, Advanced Constitutional Law, and First Amendment. He is also the Senior Fellow in Constitutional Jurisprudence at the Montana Policy Institute. Rob is especially known for his studies of the Constitution’s original meaning. His research has carried him to libraries throughout the United States and in Britain, including four months at Oxford. The results have included several break-though discoveries. Click here for more information about Rob

Trump v. Twitter, Part 2: Can a private company violate the First Amendment?

So, the theory goes, if Congress invited Twitter to exercise political censorship, then Congress violated the First Amendment. But this theory also has weaknesses . . . .

Trump v. Twitter, Part 1: How social media censors abuse federal law

Social media’s power to censor must be exercised only to empower parents in protecting their children. . . . . It’s not a license for a company’s civic ignoramuses to impose their political prejudices on the rest of us.

How the media misrepresent our liberal-leaning Supreme Court

The cases show that the Roberts court is committed to the case precedents through which the liberal 20th century justices re-wrote the Constitution.

The liberal Supreme Court: A review of the recent term

The court doesn’t have a “conservative majority.” In constitutional cases at least, it leans toward the liberal side.

Defending the Constitution: Secrets behind those ‘obscure’ provisions

Here are questions and answers addressing five of the Constitution’s less famous provisions.

Supreme Court: property rights vs. labor unions

This is a rare case in which the liberal media’s imaginary “conservative Supreme Court majority” really showed up.

The other problem with Critical Race “Theory”

The traditional school curriculum is traditional for a reason: It has stood the test of time. School resources are too precious to divert elsewhere.

The Supreme Court’s wretched Obamacare decision

Can there any clearer demonstration of why we need a convention of the states to take back our government?

Southern slaveholders: the inventors of ‘cancel culture’

“[P]arallels between the cancel culture of the slaveholders and that of modern “progressives” are not accidental at all.”

The “woke” media smears of Sidney Powell

“I have never met Powell and have no particular attitude toward her, positive or negative. But professional journalists should treat everyone fairly.”

Biden and Harris flout constitutional immigration duties

Controlling the border is a constitutional mandate, not an option

Defending the Constitution: The founders’ words were not ‘meaningless’ or ‘vague’

The charge that the Constitution is “vague” is based on ignorance.

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