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Immersing ourselves in Marbury v. Madison, David McKean and I were struck by the gap between the public appreciation of Marbury—which includes a range of Supreme Court justices—and ...
From AKHIL REED AMAR, DAHLIA LITHWICK, ERIC POSNER, CLIFF SLOAN, AND KENJI YOSHINO,
Slate,
5 Mar 2009
Does the Constitution allow the Senate to refuse to seat Roland Burris, Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich's surprise appointee? In a word, yes. Here's why.
Following English parliamentary tradition and early Colonial and state practice, the framers made ...
From AKHIL REED AMAR,
Slate,
31 Dec 2008
When Hillary Clinton recently floated the idea of choosing Barack Obama as her running mate, she won political points without being taken seriously (especially by Obama). The primary season has turned into the kind of slog and slugfest that makes ...
From AKHIL REED AMAR,
Slate,
21 Mar 2008
Let's begin here: Suppose, for argument's sake, that we concede that everything gun-control advocates say about the Second Amendment is right. Suppose that the amendment focused solely on arms-bearing in military contexts, and that it said absolutely ...
From AKHIL REED AMAR,
Slate,
17 Mar 2008
Our next president's first act will be to solemnly swear to uphold the Constitution. But what does that document say about who that person should be?
Of course, all the top candidates are formally eligible. The Constitution demands only that our next ...
From AKHIL REED AMAR,
Slate,
4 Feb 2008
Hezbollah uses a new missile in the escalating conflict.
You don't want to own an amusement park.
Same-sex marriage setbacks may not be all bad news for gay rights.
In an administration not known for its love of the Bill of ...
From AKHIL REED AMAR,
Slate,
18 Jul 2006
A small case may portend big changes to the exclusionary rule.
The immediate battleground—the precise fact pattern at issue in Hudson —is but a speck on the vast map of American constitutional law. Yet given the precise location of ...
From AKHIL REED AMAR,
Slate,
19 Jun 2006
William Jefferson and his congressional colleagues are about an executive-branch search of his Capitol-complex office. How would Thomas Jefferson and his colleagues—the Founding Fathers—have viewed the matter? ...
From AKHIL REED AMAR,
Slate,
26 May 2006
