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At the end of my previous post, I mentioned that I had just finished reading Travels with Tocqueville by Jeremy Jennings. Before I had read Professor Jennings’s intellectual biography of Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859), I did not know much about … Continue reading →

Last Friday (1 Sept. 2023), a federal judge in South Florida decided that she lacks “subject matter jurisdiction” (i.e. judicial power) to decide whether Donald J. Trump is disqualified from running for president under the disqualification clause of the 14th … Continue reading →

Via Thomas Kole, check out this reconstruction of Tenochtitlan, the awe-inspiring island-metropolis of the Aztecs: “The year is 1518. Mexico-Tenochtitlan, once an unassuming settlement in the middle of Lake Texcoco, now a bustling metropolis. It is the capital of an … Continue reading →

I floated this idea once before: instead of celebrating just one measly day in honor of the working man, why can’t the most properous country in the world give all her workers two full weeks of paid time-off, say between … Continue reading →

I am sharing this particular video of Jimmy Buffet performing one of his lesser-known ballads because the first part of this film clip shows the legendary artist explaining the colorful origins of his tropical-rock composition “Cuban Crime of Passion”.

Alternate Title: Critique of Baude & Paulsen (2023), Part 2 My previous two posts have featured a forthcoming law review article titled “The Sweep and Force of Section Three” by my conlaw colleagues William Baude and Michael Stokes Paulsen (pictured … Continue reading →

Alternate Title: Critique of Baude & Paulsen (2023), Part 1 By way of background, my colleagues William Baude and Michael Stokes Paulsen recently posted to SSRN a 126-page law review article titled “The Sweep and Force of Section Three”. Among … Continue reading →

I took advantage of yesterday’s tropical cyclone (see my previous post) to finish reading some of the items on my end-of-summer reading list, including a 126-page law review article on “The Sweep and Force of Section Three” co-authored by my … Continue reading →

A tropical cyclone is approaching my neck of the woods.

As I mentioned in my previous post, Judge Michael Luttig and Professor Larry Tribe (who are pictured below) recently published a polemical essay in The Atlantic concluding that the Constitution prohibits Donald J. Trump from being re-elected president. (By way … Continue reading →