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channarongsds / Getty / The Atlantic Justice Gorsuch’s Legal Philosophy Has a Precedent Problem
How should a textualist deal with bad case law?
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Charles Ommanney / Getty Images The Mysterious Meaning of the Second Amendment
Even with the help of powerful 21st-century linguistic databases, the phrase “keep and bear arms” remains debatable.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters What the Democrats Left Out
Instead of settling on charges that relate to statutory crimes, with clear, concrete criteria, the Democrats have instead released two articles of impeachment in which the misconduct exists largely in the eye of the beholder.
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Doug Mills / The New York Times / … The Weird Scenario That Pits President Pelosi Against Citizen Trump in 2020
A consistent reading of the Constitution suggests that the current process of succession is constitutional—and that barring Trump from running again would not be.
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Lido Vizzutti / Reuters The American Bar Association Broke Its Own Rules
The organization has proved it can’t be trusted to fairly review nominees.
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Jim Young / Reuters Kavanaugh Went Up to the Line That Sotomayor Crossed
Supreme Court justices should resist the urge to refer to presidents by name.
