Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia delivered the 17th Richard E. Snyder President's Lecture yesterday afternoon at the Gantcher Center. In his lecture, titled "Interpreting the Constitution," Scalia ...

The Hollow Core of Constitutional Theory: Why We Need the Framers, by Donald L. Drakeman (Cambridge University Press, 248 pp., $32) Donald L. Drakeman’s 2020 book, The Hollow Core of Constitutional ...

Judge Amy Coney Barrett of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit, President Donald Trump's nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court, is sworn in for her confirmation hearing before the Senate ...

Most discussions of constitutional interpretation focus on the interpretation of the federal constitution. But (as Judge Jeffrey Sutton likes to remind us) there are actually 51 constitutions in the ...

Conservatives are, by and large, thrilled by the Supreme Court’s recent decisions. It has expanded its conception of gun rights that states have to respect, and ruled that states have to include ...

“The most serious defect in the American system of government as it currently operates,” observes Lino Graglia, “the source of many of America’s most intractable problems, is the policymaking role ...

Alison LaCroix: A majority of the US Supreme Court’s justices have embraced “originalist” and “textualist” methods of constitutional interpretation. Moreover, the Court recently developed what it ...

Every major question in American public life ultimately returns to a single source of authority: the Constitution. Whether the issue concerns abortion, the scope of federal agencies, the death penalty ...

Justice, Democracy, and Law is a recurring series by Edward B. Foley that focuses on election law and the relationship of law and democracy. Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s new book, Listening to the Law, ...