Politics

Today Chief Justice Roberts spoke at the Baker Institute at Rice University in Houston. No, I did not attend. In…

I blogged earlier about what I thought was the highlight of Chief Justice Roberts’s exchange with Judge Rosenthal at the…

On Saturday morning, President Donald Trump criticized a Wall Street Journal article about an Iranian attack on U.S. refueling planes…

Long-time readers may remember my writings about the “judicial resistance” during President Trump’s first term. Well, it seems we are…

Paul Ehrlich has died at the old age of 93. I am grateful he lived long enough to witness how…

Cassandra Burke Robertson and I have a new piece entitled “Denaturalization’s Missing Limit” forthcoming in the Northwestern University Law Review…

Hello and welcome to another edition of Free Agent! Happy St. Patrick’s Day, have a Guinness or two (or 10).…

When President Donald Trump implemented his Liberation Day tariffs last spring, the president’s senior adviser, Peter Navarro, suggested that these…

A federal jury in Fort Worth, Texas, convicted eight protestors on charges ranging from rioting to attempted murder after a…

Happy Tuesday, and welcome to another edition of Rent Free. This week’s newsletter includes stories on: The Trump administration’s new…

I do a lot of legal history research in my academic work, often studying late 18th Century legal understandings and…

Can a “schoolyard dispute” warrant federal court intervention? Do first-graders have First Amendment rights? The U.S. Court of Appeals for…