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1 week ago | 
verdict.justia.com | Michael C. Dorf |Laurence H. Tribe |Michael Morrison |Jesse Choper
It has been difficult to find much to laugh about in the economic news of the last couple of weeks, as President Donald Trump single-handedly caused a generally downward roller-coaster ride for world financial markets, but Elon Musk’s dunking on Trump tariff guru Peter Navarro did provide one bright spot. Musk called Navarro “truly a moron,” “dumber than a sack of bricks,” and used a slur to further insult Navarro’s intelligence.
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2 weeks ago | 
flipboard.com | Erwin Chemerinsky |Laurence H. Tribe
1 day agoA man driving on a Florida interstate early Sunday morning was subjected to gunfire as he recorded several motorcyclists driving erratically, according to police. "A 34-year-old St. Petersburg man, driving a Honda CR-V westbound on Interstate 4, observed several motorcyclists who were operating …
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1 month ago | 
theashlandchronicle.com | Joseph Gedeon |Jose Olivares |Dani Anguiano |Laurence H. Tribe
Indivisibles,I’m going to keep this intro short, because when you’ve got the goods, it’s better to show than tell. And last week we showed what democracy looks like! This last week was the Senate’s first and the House’s second congressional recess of the year. And Indivisibles showed up everywhere — we tracked about 200 local events nationwide. Republicans: Out of sight, but not out of mind.
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1 month ago | 
verdict.justia.com | Michael C. Dorf |Laurence H. Tribe |Michael Morrison |Jesse Choper
Over the last week, the Trump administration appeared to move closer than ever to defiance of the courts. Despite an order from Federal District Judge James E.
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1 month ago | 
verdict.justia.com | Michael C. Dorf |Laurence H. Tribe |Michael Morrison |Jesse Choper
Late last month, I was a panelist at a symposium on constitutional law casebooks sponsored and hosted by the Institute of Bill of Rights Law and the William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal. With the Trump administration hurtling the country into multiple constitutional crises, that might sound like a staid, even boring, topic for a symposium. It was anything but.
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2 months ago | 
verdict.justia.com | Michael C. Dorf |Laurence H. Tribe |Michael Morrison |Jesse Choper
On a Saturday night in October 1973, Richard Nixon sought to fire special prosecutor Archibald Cox, fearing (with good reason) that Cox’s Watergate investigation would end his presidency. Attorney General Elliot Richardson refused to do the dirty deed and resigned. Nixon next turned to Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus. He too refused and resigned. Finally, Solicitor General Robert Bork did Nixon’s bidding.
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2 months ago | 
verdict.justia.com | Michael C. Dorf |Laurence H. Tribe |Michael Morrison |Jesse Choper
In just over two weeks since his inauguration, Donald Trump has already made numerous moves that flout longstanding democratic norms and, in some instances, clearly violate the law. The sheer number of such actions threatens to “flood the zone”—that is, to overwhelm journalists and political opposition. To be sure, federal judges have so far blocked two of Trump’s most egregious maneuvers: his efforts to unilaterally repeal birthright citizenship and to usurp the power of the purse from Congress.
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
salon.com | Dennis Aftergut |Laurence H. Tribe
Readers of the Washington Post flocked to read Jeff Bezos' essay this week defending his decision to stop his editorial board from endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris. They wanted to see his explanation of the inexplicable, to understand why he shot the fluorescent lighting out in the editorial board room of the paper whose banner reads “Democracy Dies in Darkness.” Predictably, Bezos' defense failed more miserably than the Union Army at Fort Sumter in 1861.
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Oct 20, 2024 | 
rsn.org | Laurence H. Tribe
Law can oppress as easily as it can liberate, and it is the everyday life we lead at our kitchen tables and in our bedrooms that is most dangerously threatened by a return of Trump to power. In Harvard Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts, there is a pub named Grendel’s Den, after the monster in the Old English epic poem Beowulf. It prominently displays a comedic circular crest claiming that it was established in 1271.
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Oct 15, 2024 | 
nybooks.com | Laurence H. Tribe
In Harvard Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts, there is a pub named Grendel’s Den, after the monster in the Old English epic poem Beowulf. It prominently displays a comedic circular crest claiming that it was established in 1271. Long known for its microbrewed beer and convivial atmosphere, the modest bar and grill in fact opened seven hundred years later, in 1971.
