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V’s Legalese: Judiciary Antebellum

Federal courts have made a lot of news lately. Most of it is not good. We ask a lot of our courts, but life was better when America did not know the names of federal district judges like Jeb Boasberg, Tanya Chutkan, Amir Ali, Amy Berman Jackson, and so many others.  The present judicial landscape […]

V’s Legalese: Judicial Review as Obligation (with Apologies to Ben Shapiro)

The Supreme Court can tell us all no. That’s a good thing. Blasphemous as it may be to say on Twitter, I genuinely like Ben Shapiro. I have important disagreements with him, but I’m proud of how he’s become a household name. I admire him for his steadfast courage. And I think that in terms […]