Corbin K. Barthold

1 month ago | yahoo.com | Corbin K. Barthold

THEY WERE GATHERED AGAIN, the lawyers and the judge, at an hour when the courts of a well-ordered society should be still. This country once divided against itself over the fate of fugitive slaves. Those “held to service or labour in one state,” in the Constitution’s shameful euphemism, were to “be delivered up on claim of the party to whom such service or labour may be due.” Our greatest president gave his life to end the fettered bondsman’s two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil.

Mar 3, 2025 | thebulwark.com | Corbin K. Barthold

WHAT WILL WE SAY about the Supreme Court when the storm has passed? That it was strong? That it stood firm against a rogue president? If, when the crisis comes, the justices make Donald Trump blink, then eventually, we may come to pair him with Andrew Jackson—two colorful leaders in the colorful history of our nation—as the nation moves on. But what if, looking back, we see the Court was weak? What if the justices confine themselves to milquetoast opinions?

Mar 3, 2025 | yahoo.com | Corbin K. Barthold

WHAT WILL WE SAY about the Supreme Court when the storm has passed? That it was strong? That it stood firm against a rogue president? If, when the crisis comes, the justices make Donald Trump blink, then eventually, we may come to pair him with Andrew Jackson—two colorful leaders in the colorful history of our nation—as the nation moves on. But what if, looking back, we see the Court was weak? What if the justices confine themselves to milquetoast opinions?

Jan 12, 2025 | econlib.org | David Henderson |Corbin K. Barthold |Liz Wolfe |George F. Will

by Corbin K. Barthold, Law & Liberty, January 9, 2025. Excerpt:Now legislators, both state and federal, are going the other way. They’re introducing, supporting, and (only, so far, at the state level) enacting bills that impose age-verification requirements on social media platforms and adult websites. Current online age-verification techniques erode digital privacy: they create vectors for learning users’ identities and snooping on their browsing habits.

Jan 9, 2025 | lawliberty.org | Corbin K. Barthold |Alex J. Pollock |Max Skjönsberg |Daniel Mahoney

During Robert Bork’s bruising nomination process in 1987, a reporter realized that he and Bork frequented the same video store. This reporter hit on the idea of asking to see Bork’s rental history, and, lo and behold, a clerk coughed it right up. The list was not what sank Bork’s nomination—the good judge was fond of Cary Grant and Alfred Hitchcock; there was nothing salacious. But there could have been, and lawmakers on both sides of the aisle were scandalized by the invasion of Bork’s privacy.