Noah Feldman

The repressive machine currently arrayed against campus protests follows a familiar pattern.

Did the Confederacy have a constitutional right to secede? And did Lincoln violate the Constitution in forcing them back into the Union and freeing the slaves?

A review of three books about Abraham Lincoln, the 14th Amendment, and Reconstruction.

Justice John Marshall’s ruling on Marbury v. Madison gave the courts the right to declare acts and laws of the other branches unconstitutional.

Rather than resisting authoritarianism, the courts have enabled Trump’s rise.

The risks of calling on politicians to push back against the court must be weighed against the present reality of a malign judicial dictatorship.