Janus v. American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees Council 31

May 9, 2019|Constitutionalism, District of Columbia v. Heller, Janus v. American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees Council 31, Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, Murphy v. National Collegiate Athletics Association, NIFLA v. Becerra, Obergefell v. Hodges, symmetry

Symmetric Constitutionalism: A Judicial Ethos for Polarized Times

by Zachary S. Price|8 Comments

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Courts should seek doctrinal principles that bear even-handed application across different contexts with differing ideological implications.

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

U.S. Supreme Court (Orhan Cam/Shutterstock.com).

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

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.

July 3, 2018|Compelling Interest, Individual Rights, Janus v. American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees Council 31, Manksy, Samuel Alito

A National Test for our Constitutional Rights

by John O. McGinnis|4 Comments

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The Supreme Court should test laws against rights in a consistent way, and one way to this is to evaluate whether laws actually meet an essential objective.

February 26, 2018|Abood v. Board of Education, First Amendment, Friedrichs v. California, Harris v. Quinn, Janus v. American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees Council 31, Knox v. SEIU, Public Sector Unions

Will the Janus Case Strike the Deathblow to Public Sector Unions?

by Mark Pulliam|21 Comments

US Supreme Court, Washington DC,

A badly-flawed precedent is about to get KO’d in a rematch of a contest that last ended in a draw.

Reconsidering the Sources of American Liberty

by Tony Williams

Wormersley's volume addresses the sources of American Revolution and how those ideas fashioned American understandings of liberty.

Just Before the Return of the Strong Gods: On Charles Péguy’s Temporal and Eternal

by James Matthew Wilson

Nature hates a vacuum, and if modern civic life does not fill itself with a range of sound mystiques, others, more dark, will make an entrance.

The Populist Presidency vs. The Founders' Presidency

A discussion with Stephen F. Knott

Stephen Knott discusses the immense revolution in power that has remade the American presidency over the past century.

Judicial Supremacy and the Constitution

A discussion with Greg Weiner

Greg Weiner discusses the difference between the political constitution and the judicial constitution.

Managing Whiteshift

A discussion with Eric Kaufmann

A discussion with Eric Kaufmann about white majorities and the future of politics in western democracies.

Brexit Shenanigans and the Old English Constitution

A discussion with Helen Dale

Helen Dale discusses Brexit, the English Constitution, and the future of British politics.

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