To those familiar with constitutional history, it may seem trite to observe that the meaning of the Constitution is contested. Yet many contemporary political commentators treat the Constitution as a document whose meaning is plain and obvious. An op-ed in the New York Times, criticizing President Donald Trump’s attempt to end birthright citizenship, informs us that “Trump doesn’t get to decide what the Constitution means.” The writer argues that the meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment is plain: “Virtually everyone […]
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A short excerpt from today’s long decision by Judge Lee Rosenthal (S.D. Tex.) in Texas A&M Queer Empowerment Council v. Mahomes: The Texas A&M Queer Empowerment Council (“QEC”), a student organization at A&M’s College Station flagship campus has, for each of the last five years, sponsored a drag show cleverly named “Draggieland” on campus. It is a ticketed event; only those who want to attend do so. Anyone who finds the performance or performers offensive has a simple […]
They sit on hundreds of billions of dollars in endowments while whining and wailing like scalded babies when DOGE cuts their lavish subsidies by a few million. The more cutting the better for these dysfunctional incubators of socialism. Humorous side note: I once held a privately-funded endowed chair. Since the chair holders were generally paid more than the average professor, a socialist philosophy professor (the only allowable type) complained about this unconscionable inequality in a letter to the […]
An excerpt from yesterday’s post by my UCLA colleague Stephen Bainbridge: Last week, I signed an open letter to the Delaware legislature by a group of corporate law academics addressing aspects of Delaware SB 21, which was then pending before the Delaware House. This week, as you may have seen, 80 out of the ~120 Harvard law school faculty signed a group letter protesting certain Trump administration actions–especially those targeting law firms–as being detrimental to the rule of law. Predictably, […]
Tweet … is from pages 241-242 of the American jurist James Coolidge Carter’s profound, yet unfortunately neglected, (posthumous) 1907 book, Law: Its Origin, Growth and Function: All crimes are violations of custom, but all violations of custom are not necessarily crimes. There are many departures from custom of which the law takes no notice, or should take no notice, but which it should leave to the jurisdiction of the moral forces of society. The line of division between […]
Austerity—reducing government spending to limit deficits—can create conditions for reduced inequality and middle-class prosperity by curbing inflationary monetary policies, fostering supply-driven deflation, and enabling market-driven job creation. This approach emphasizing minimal state intervention, sound money, and entrepreneurial dynamism. Here’s the integrated argument: Inflation as a Driver of Inequality Central bank policies like quantitative easing (QE) and low interest rates disproportionately inflate asset prices (stocks, real estate), benefiting wealthier individuals who own these assets while eroding middle-class purchasing power[2][3]. […]