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Why some law schools are removing the 'great' Chief Justice John Marshall from their names
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 1 year agoWASHINGTON – The tumultuous debate over the Founding Fathers' relationship with slavery has caught...
James Pfister: State sovereignty and illegal immigration
The Daily Telegram via Yahoo News· 4 months agoIn our system of federalism, States have sovereignty, or the power to govern — how much power is the...
Conservatives Don’t Have a Monopoly on Originalism
The New Republic via Yahoo News· 3 months agoLast month, the conservative writer Ramesh Ponnuru published an op-ed in The Washington Post arguing that Democrats “have lost the debate about the role...
James W. Pfister: Trial of Aaron Burr and judicial independence
The Daily Telegram via Yahoo News· 1 year agoWith investigations and prosecutions of political leaders today, it is useful to examine a famous...
Flexibility: Great case of McCulloch v. Maryland
The Daily Telegram via Yahoo News· 2 years agoMy thesis is that Chief Justice John Marshall went beyond implied power in McCulloch v. Maryland to give Congress a choice of means; that “necessary” was...
‘Reading the Constitution’ Review: The Pragmatic Stephen Breyer
The Wall Street Journal· 3 months agoBOOKSHELF In the 1980s, after two decades of judicial activism, Antonin Scalia and a small band of...
James W. Pfister: Holmes’ dissent in Hammer v. Dagenhart
The Daily Telegram via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe Commerce Clause of the Constitution (Article I, Section 8, Clause 3), regarding interstate...
Trump’s Supreme Court Ballot Argument Posits That Jefferson Davis Wasn’t an Insurrectionist Either
Slate via Yahoo News· 4 months agoRepublican lawmakers framed and ratified Section 3 of the 14th Amendment after the greatest...
James W. Pfister: Judicial review and gerrymandering
The Daily Telegram via Yahoo News· 11 months agoThe Constitution is textually clear: “The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each...
Opinion | The Supreme Court Is Infected With the ‘Most Damaging’ Human Bias
Politico via Yahoo News· 9 months agoThe Supreme Court’s public approval is back at record lows, and there is a common explanation: partisanship. The diagnosis is certainly understandable. Today’s court is extremely partisan by ...