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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.

The Logos of Western Civilization: A Conversation with Sam Gregg

A discussion with Samuel Gregg

Sam Gregg explores how the West is built on the union of the God of the Philosophers and the God of the Bible.

The Politics of Judicial Review: A Conversation with Keith Whittington

A discussion with Keith Whittington

Keith Whittington discusses his reassessment of judicial review in his new book Repugnant Laws

Liberalism as Armed Doctrine: A Conversation with Philip Hamburger

A discussion with Philip Hamburger

Philip Hamburger joins us to discuss his new book Liberal Suppression

The Delusions of the Ideologue and the Wisdom of the Statesman: A Conversation with Greg Weiner

A discussion with Greg Weiner

Greg Weiner returns to Liberty Law Talk to discuss what it means to be an Old Whig.

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