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After Dobbs, many Americans woke up to the Roberts court's dangerous power. But history offers lessons — and hope

A N.Y. Times opinion piece today, following up on a Compact piece ("The Liberal Plot Against Democracy") Wednesday. An excerpt from the Times: Like many of my fellow liberals, I would love to live in a country where Americans had never elected Mr. Trump — let alone sided with him…

The United Nations prohibits the use of force except in the case of self-defence—but that can too easily be moulded into a euphemism for retaliation, revenge, and punishment

Last week I appeared in two podcast episodes that could be of interest, especially to those interested in statutory interpretation. One was as a guest of Yale Law Professors David Schleicher and Samuel Moyn on "The Legal Theory Podcast: Digging A Hole," where I was very skeptically interrogated about unwritten…