Battle for the Constitution: Week of May 10th, 2021 Roundup

Below is a round-up of the latest from the Battle for the Constitution: a special project on the constitutional debates in American life, in partnership with The Atlantic.

The Man Who Should Be Merrick Garland’s Role Model

By Andrew Kent, Professor of Law and John D. Feerick Research Chair, Fordham University School of Law

Andrew Kent writes about the changes at the Department of Justice in the wake of Watergate, and argues that Attorney General Merrick Garland and today’s Department of Justice should use that time period as a model and codify and expand past reforms.