The Constitution gives Congress power to “define and punish” offenses against the law of nations. Scholars popular among the Founders wrote that illegal immigration is such an offense.
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DeSantis has just helped educate us on the rule of law. For that he deserves our gratitude.
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As Justice Samuel Alito pointed out in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health (pdf)—and as the late, great Justice Antonin Scalia said repeatedly—the Fifth and 14th Amendment Due Process Clauses really have nothing to do with abortion.
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All of these false assertions emerged from a historical process—primarily during the 19th century—that I’ve labeled “The Great Forgetting.”
Understanding the Constitution: The Great Forgetting Read More »
For the court to strike down a federal abortion law, it would have to . . . courageously enforce the Constitution’s subject-matter boundaries between federal and state jurisdiction.
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The leading myth in Indian law is that the Constitution gives Congress “plenary” (absolute) authority over Indian affairs.
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The court’s decisions upholding state vax mandates gave us a hint that it was about to overturn Roe.
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Justice Thomas’s opinion affirms that the scope of the right to keep and bear arms is fixed by the words of the amendment. The law is reflected in those words, not in some judge’s idea of what is important.
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As the Founders recognized, the human impulse toward mob behavior is not going to disappear. But reforms can limit its influence.
The Founders and the Twitter Mob Read More »
Being an originalist is not a good career move [but] we do it out of love.
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Overruling Roe would have no effect on any of these other cases.
Fact Check: No, overruling Roe v. Wade would not endanger other rights Read More »
A likely motive is to recreate what happened in Montana in 1972: to expose a potential swing justice to political pressure.
Why the Leak of the Draft Decision on Roe v. Wade? Read More »
