Noah Feldman

1 week ago | bloomberg.com | Noah Feldman

New England through and through. (Bloomberg Opinion) -- David Souter, the former US Supreme Court justice who died at 85 on Thursday, was sometimes mistakenly thought to have turned into a liberal after being nominated by President George H.W. Bush on the expectation that he would be an ideological conservative. History will show the opposite: Souter was among the most consistent, principled justices ever to have sat on the Supreme Court in its 235-year history.

2 weeks ago | news.bloomberglaw.com | Noah Feldman

A president’s first 100 days aretraditionallymeasured by how much he’s created and accomplished through legislation, leadership, and executive action. Donald Trump’s first 100 days demand to be evaluated in terms of how much he’s destroyed. By that terrible standard of shock and awe, Trump’s destruction is historic — by far the worst first 100 days since Franklin Delano Roosevelt made it a thing in 1933.

2 weeks ago | bloomberg.com | Noah Feldman

For the people, by the people. (Bloomberg Opinion) -- A president’s first 100 days are traditionally measured by how much he’s created and accomplished through legislation, leadership, and executive action. Donald Trump’s first 100 days demand to be evaluated in terms of how much he’s destroyed. By that terrible standard of shock and awe, Trump’s destruction is historic — by far the worst first 100 days since Franklin Delano Roosevelt made it a thing in 1933.

2 weeks ago | messenger-inquirer.com | Noah Feldman

President Donald Trump promised a “secret weapon” in his new executive order on university accreditation. Sure enough, it’s there, hiding in plain sight. The order includes an as-yet-unnoticed directive to the Department of Education to pressure the accreditors to push universities “to prioritize intellectual diversity amongst faculty.” In Trump-speak, that means hiring professors who teach what he and his followers believe to be true, regardless of what actual scholars might have demonstrated.

2 weeks ago | seattletimes.com | Noah Feldman

President Donald Trump’s disregard for the rule of law is as clear as it could be. Consider that the three justices he appointed to the Supreme Court all joined a middle-of-the-night emergency decision blocking the unlawful deportation of more Venezuelan nationals to El Salvador — after the court had already ruled 9-0 that no one should be deported without a hearing first. But you can’t cure a disease without a diagnosis.