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Article III
Constitutional Voices: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
A number of aphorisms have enshrined Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. in the American constitutional canon and his succinct…
The Supreme Court’s emergency docket steadily draws more attention
Not all of the Supreme Court’s significant actions come in the form of merits case decisions after full briefing and oral…
Constitutional Voices: John Marshall
Chief Justice John Marshall, in the words of longtime friend and colleague Justice Joseph Story, was "the expounder of the…
Does the War Powers Resolution debate take on a new context in the Iran conflict?
The recent military actions in Iran by Israel and the United States has reignited a simmering constitutional debate: the ability…
Roberts and Kagan have different visions of how democracy should work
Last week in the Texas re-redistricting case, the Supreme Court had the opportunity to slow or stop what has been called a…
In the Supreme Court, whose facts count the most?
President Donald Trump wants to deploy troops in Chicago and Portland, cities that he has described as “war ravaged,”…
Is the Supreme Court’s silence failing to turn “square corners” in immigration cases?
In a 1920 Supreme Court decision, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote that “men must turn square corners when they deal with the…
Moving Trump’s birthright citizenship order from off-the-wall to on-the-wall at the Supreme Court, or not
How does an “off-the-wall” interpretation of the Constitution, such as President Trump’s narrow view of birthright…
Will the Justices get to the meat of the birthright citizenship controversy?
Although the special U.S. Supreme Court argument on Thursday involves the technical issue of the scope of an injunction blocking…
Nationwide Injunctions: A hot topic you won’t debate in dinner-time conversations
The subject is unlikely to trigger dinner table debates and more likely to trigger yawns in some people. But nationwide…
