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April 22, 2019|Austin, Lawrence Wright, Rick Perry, Texas

Fear and Loathing in the Lone Star State

"Greetings From Austin - Capitol of Texas" postcard mural, Roadhouse Relics, Austin, Texas (Steve Lagreca/Shutterstock.com).

A respected writer sullies his legacy with a tendentious partisan screed.

April 9, 2019|Fourteenth Amendment, New Originalism, Originalism, Privileges or Immunities Clause, Raoul Berger, Robert Bork, Slaughter-House Cases

Still Searching for the Judicial “Holy Grail”

by Mark Pulliam|12 Comments

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The eternal quest for the missing constitutional clause that will provide the answers the academy wants.

March 25, 2019|Lino Graglia, Michael Rappaport, Michael Stokes Paulsen, Originalism, Robert Bork

The Many Flavors of “Originalism”

by Mark Pulliam|11 Comments

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Pragmatism plays a role in constitutional interpretation—and stare decisis.

March 13, 2019|Abood v. Detroit Board of Education, Janus v. American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees Council 31, New Deal, NLRA

Getting Over the New Deal with Janus

by Mark Pulliam|10 Comments

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The real lesson of Janus is that the Court is no longer infatuated with the National Labor Relations Act and its doctrinal baggage.

February 25, 2019|American Default, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Gold Clause Cases, Gold Standard, Legal Tender cases

Abandoning Gold and the Constitution?

by Mark Pulliam|8 Comments

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Justice McReynolds delivered the unitary dissent, departing from the prepared opinion to scornfully declare that the Constitution “is gone.”

February 7, 2019|elites, Populism, Tucker Carlson

Escaping Our Ship of Fools

by Mark Pulliam|22 Comments

Tucker Carlson with James Carville at the fourth annual Politicon in Los Angeles, California on October 21, 2018 (Image: Brian Cahn/ZUMA Wire/Alamy Live News).

Carlson has a serious point: How should the nation’s various maladies be addressed by our political system?

January 22, 2019|2020 Presidential Campaign, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Constitution, Democratic Party, Robert Francis O’Rourke

Doubting Beto

by Mark Pulliam|9 Comments

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Are American voters ready to elect a President who openly questions the relevance of the Constitution (or who live-streams his dental hygiene visit)?

December 24, 2018|Abood v. Detroit Board of Education, bar associations, Janus v. American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees Council 31, Public Unions

Beyond Janus: Revisiting the Unified Bar

by Mark Pulliam|9 Comments

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The era of Lathrop’s “goose-stepping brigades” is about to end.

December 6, 2018|Abood v. Detroit Board of Education, activism, Janus v. American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees Council 31, Knox v. SEIU, Public Unions

After Janus, What’s Next?

by Mark Pulliam|9 Comments

Members of the American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees union at the Illinois State Capitol in Springfield, Ill. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman)

The era of government-compelled financial support of public sector unions is finally over.