Friday, January 27, 2023

Would it Even Be Possible to "Prioritize" When Republicans Create a Debt Ceiling Crisis?

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by Neil H. Buchanan The public discussion of the debt ceiling crisis is reverting to a slow burn, now that everyone (and I do mean apparent...
Thursday, January 26, 2023

Is New York's Recreational Marijuana Law the Best Way to Compensate People Unjustly Harmed by the War on Drugs?

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  by Michael C. Dorf Just before the new year and almost two years after the passage of the law permitting the sale of recreational marijuan...
Wednesday, January 25, 2023

Of Dad, Death, and Dying With Dignity (Or the Lack Thereof)

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 By Eric Segall My Father Maurice Segall died a little over a week ago in the middle of the night in his sleep at the age of 93. Tragically,...
Tuesday, January 24, 2023

The Debt and the Debt Ceiling Have Virtually Nothing to do with Each Other

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by Neil H. Buchanan One of the many, many problems with the current discussion surrounding the Republicans' renewed threats to take us ...
Monday, January 23, 2023

SCOTUS Leak Investigation and the First Amendment

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by Michael C. Dorf Much of the public discussion of the inconclusive Marshal's Report of the investigation into last year's leak of...
Friday, January 20, 2023

Only the Current Level of Insanity Could Let Republicans' Tax Policy "Ideas" Fly Under the Radar

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by Neil H. Buchanan Yesterday, in what I admitted was a rather grumpy column , I waded back into the muck of the debt-ceiling debate.  I ma...
Thursday, January 19, 2023

It Matters that the Debt Ceiling "Debate" is Being Left to Poseurs

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by Neil H. Buchanan References to "Groundhog Day" cannot possibly do justice to the absurdity of the ever-returning debt ceiling m...
Wednesday, January 18, 2023

Legitimating and Delegitimating Constitutional Theory (cross-posted on Balkinization)

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by Michael C. Dorf [N.B.  The following essay also appears on Balkinization as part of that blog's 20th Anniversary Symposium on the Pr...
Tuesday, January 17, 2023

Does a Trigger Warning Merely Indicate an Intent to do Harm? Hamline University Edition

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  by Michael C. Dorf (***Updated with link to column) My latest  Verdict column  discusses  the saga of Erika Lopez Prater --the art history...
Monday, January 16, 2023

An MLK Day Classic: The Uses of Official Holidays

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  by Michael C. Dorf [In honor of Dr. King, today's short rerun comes from 2010 ( originally posted here ). I think it holds up pretty w...