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by | Dec 25, 2019

Washington is convulsed by politics these days. The presidential election is less than a year away. The House is moving…

by | Dec 25, 2019

What a disappointment. After the two House Get Trump Committees came up with (if you’ll pardon the expression) trumped-up charges…

by | Dec 16, 2019

Whatever its legal merit or lack thereof, the upcoming impeachment trial in the Senate is a political show trial that…

by | Dec 6, 2019

Our country could survive an impeachment trial of Donald Trump. We’d be wounded and I hope that calamity can be…

by | Nov 6, 2019

The most frequently quoted one-liner about impeachment is Gerald Ford’s: “An impeachable offense is whatever a majority of the House…

by | Oct 28, 2019

My Yale Law School colleague Bruce Ackerman has proposed a theory of constitutional change that he calls “constitutional moments.” The…

by | Aug 9, 2019

One way of thinking about the job of an agency Inspector General (IG) is to see it as scraping barnacles…

by | Jul 30, 2019

In Rucho v. Common Cause, the Supreme Court held that political gerrymandering claims do not belong in federal court. That’s…

by | Jul 23, 2019

On July 10, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals concluded that the District of Columbia and Maryland could not bring…

by | Jul 12, 2019

Know your role. This prescription pervades the basketball world. Adhering to it requires an honest assessment of one’s own abilities…

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