May state legislative applications limit an Article V convention? Subject, yes; specific language, probably not
- September 12, 2013
[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.”
READ MOREBy clarifying constitutional amendment law, Stevens made it more accessible to citizens who now seek to use it to cure our dysfunctional federal government.
READ MOREWill their next brief urge the court to dispense with republican government and declare a monarchy?
READ MOREThe Supreme Court term just over certainly confirmed what I wrote shortly after it started: The constant refrain that the current bench is a “conservative Supreme Court” with a “conservative majority” is flat wrong.
READ MOREJustice Clarence Thomas’s concurrence probably received the most media attention. It is an essay on when the Supreme Court should follow precedent or overrule it. It helps lay the basis for reversing Roe v. Wade . . . .
READ MOREWhy do many judges and commentators abandon standard interpretative methods when addressing some parts of the Constitution? The answer is clear.
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