Josh Blackman is a constitutional law professor at the South Texas College of Law Houston, an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute, and the President of the Harlan Institute. Follow him @JoshMBlackman.
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The 13th Annual Harlan Institute Virtual Supreme Court Competition
Teams that register before November 4, 2024 will be invited to participate in a virtual mentoring session.
Oyez! Oyez! Oyez! The October Term 2024 of FantasySCOTUS is now in session
Predict all of the biggest cases at the Supreme Court.
New Eleventh Circuit Amicus Brief In Special Counsel Appeal
"The District Court correctly dismissed the indictment. Amici advance four rationales to support the judgment below."
New Article: A Historical Record of Special Counsels Before Watergate
"This Article presents a corpus of primary sources that were written by Presidents, Attorneys General, United States Attorneys, Special Counsels, and others between the 1850s and the 1950s."
En Banc Fifth Circuit Tells Judge Ezra to RTFM
"The case is REMANDED with instructions to vacate the preliminary injunction and for further proceedings consistent with the majority opinion of the court."
A Reminder Of What Will Happen When The Filibuster Is Gone
Harris says the quiet part out loud.
Judge Reed O'Connor's Remarks On Forum Selection and "Judge Shopping"
"Appearing to cave to criticism from commentators and political officials, this Judicial Conference proposal rejects the idea that there are no partisan judges—only judges doing their level best to faithfully apply the law to reach the correct decision."
Man Indicted For Threatening To Lynch "Corrupt" Justice Thomas And His "Insurrectionist" Wife
There are consequences to the rhetoric about the Court from high ranking officials.
Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine On Remand
"But the Government switched positions before the Supreme Court."
The Trump Leaks Are Far Worse Than The Dobbs Leak.
Knives are out for Chief Justice Roberts, and poor Justice Alito.
NY Times Big Reveals On Deliberations In Three Trump Cases
How did Roberts come to write Trump v. Anderson, Fischer v. United States, and Trump v. United States?
Rahimi On Remand
"We read the Court's analysis in Rahimi to have modified Bruen in at least one relevant respect."
New Essay: Coping With a Court One Disagrees With
"The time is ripe for liberal and progressive professors, especially those who are having trouble coping with the current Supreme Court, to consider adopting our narrative approach to the constitutional canon and anticanon."
Frederick Douglass Praises the "Courage" Of Justice John Marshall Harlan
“In these easy going days [Harlan] should find himself possessed of the courage to resist the temptation to go with the multitude”
