Rob Natelson

Latest COVID orders layer chaos over confusion, add to risk 0
- April 30, 2020
In issuing his latest directive, the governor missed opportunities to quit being an autocrat and start being a statesman.
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COVID-19 and the Constitution 0
- April 27, 2020
The Constitution’s flexibility in emergency is why the late Justice Robert H. Jackson once said, “The Constitution is not a suicide pact.” But emergencies do not cause the Constitution to vanish.
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New article shows how amendments conventions and other “federal functions” are regulated 0
- April 21, 2020
“[A]nother mistake is that because an amendments convention executes a federal function, Congress can control it. But . . . the rules and protocols for carrying out federal functions come from the Constitution, not from Congress.”
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New court ruling exposes unconstitutionality of Colorado lockdown orders 0
- April 14, 2020
Colorado’s orders are classic examples of infringements of fundamental rights that are both overbroad and underinclusive—and therefore unconstitutional.
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You are officially invited to our virtual drinking party 0
- April 6, 2020
You are officially invited to our virtual drinking party, Freedom on Tap, as we hoist a couple with constitutional experts David Kopel and Rob Natelson and your video call-ins. We’ll chat about COVID, of course, but the real goal is just to socialize and have some bar talk. Here’s what you need to know: When:
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A defense of the Electoral College 0
- April 5, 2020
“… when Hamilton stated . . . that he believed electors would use “information and discernment,” that is not very good evidence that future electors did in fact use information and discernment. But it is quite good evidence that Hamilton and his readers believed the Constitution empowered electors to do so.”
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