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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

During her 2010 Senate confirmation hearings, centrist-liberal Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan famously allowed that “we are all originalists.” In a 2015 interview at Harvard Law School honoring her ...

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 ...

The United States Constitution remains one of the highest protections of individual freedoms; however, these rights remain frequently ignored, eroded, or denied despite protections for current and ...

In early July 1985, U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese launched a legal revolution from the tony confines of the Sheraton Washington Hotel. Speaking to the American Bar Association, he argued that “far ...

Please note that the views of outside contributors do not reflect the official opinions of SCOTUSblog or its staff. Life, Law & Liberty, Justice Anthony Kennedy’s memoir, was published earlier this ...

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 ...