Today a majority of U.S. Supreme Court justices are either self-described originalists or strongly lean toward originalism. Yet less than 50 years ago, originalism was considered a fringe movement, ...

Professor Joel Alicea has a thoughtful and perceptive op-ed in the New York Times, "The Supreme Court Is Divided in More Ways Than You'd Think," discussing the issues that divide the Supreme Court's ...

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito touched on two lightning rod cases Friday in explaining the pitfalls and promises of originalism. The conservative justice mentioned the Obergefell ruling that ...

When Justice Amy Coney Barrett joined the Supreme Court in 2020, conservatives celebrated that “there are now four avowed originalists on the Court.” To those on the right, the latest version of the ...

Originalist judges should show “self-confidence,” and “not seek praise from the media or a hostile legal academy,” Justice Samuel Alito Jr. told a conservative audience on the eve of the new Supreme ...

When I read the majority opinion on Monday in Trump v. United States, which held that presidents enjoy absolute immunity for official acts within their “conclusive and preclusive” constitutional ...

Now that the election is over, people might wonder what role the Supreme Court will play during Donald Trump’s second term. If the new president engages in behavior threatening to the Constitution and ...

The Framers would laugh at Trump’s immunity claim. So why are the court’s constitutional originalists taking so long? The real question Americans should ponder as the Supreme Court takes up Donald ...

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