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What the “expert” panel should have told you about impeachment—but didn’t 0
- January 6, 2020
Impeachment law is not for amateurs. It rests on English parliamentary history extending at least as far back as the 1300s. . . .
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Under the Constitution the President, not unelected bureaucrats, makes foreign policy 0
- January 3, 2020
These witnesses and their congressional sponsors apparently believe the consensus of professionals should control foreign policy. . . . But the Constitution squarely repudiates this “foreign policy by committee” approach.
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The Constitution tells us impeachment is valid even though the Speaker has not transmitted it 0
- December 24, 2019
Nothing in the Constitution gives [the Speaker of the House a presidential-style veto.
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Lies law professors tell 0
- December 23, 2019
[A] whole generation of law students has been trained to think that the 19th century courts were heartless tools of malicious capitalists, and that enlightened reform came only with the virtuous 20th century “progressives.”
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Real originalism (not the cartoon version some love to attack) explained 0
- December 22, 2019
Originalism has been the prevailing method of documentary interpretation in English and American law for at least five centuries.
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New information on the Constitution’s ratification—Part IV North Carolina 0
- December 19, 2019
North Carolinians repeatedly—both in official and unofficial documents—referred to an Article V convention as a “convention of the states.”
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