An earlier month, I mentioned Judge Bill Pryor’s Federalist Society lecture, “Against Living Common Goodism,” which criticized Harvard law professor Adrian Vermeule. Common Good Constitutionalism. Professor […]
My inaugural Edwin Meese III Originalism Lecture was delivered at Heritage Foundation on March 24, 2022. My main topic was “Originalism & Stare Decisis in […]
The Supreme Court confirmation hearings are now a pointless activity. It is characterized in part by senators who ask rambling, often uncoherent questions and the […]
It is a pleasure to announce that the University of Chicago Federalist Society now has the Eaton Award for writing. This award is open to […]
“Slavery wasn’t illegal; it was wrong. So wrong that the law should be resisted.” This sentence can be understood and believed by many. Many people […]
Oral arguments DobbsChief Justice Roberts asked me a question that I didn’t think of about the relation between stare decisis, originalism and other forms of representation. […]
