Type to search articles, cases, and authors. Press ↵ to view all results. Jonathan Skrmetti is chief deputy attorney general of the state of Tennessee, which filed an amicus brief on behalf of 15 ...

During Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation hearing, Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) seemed triumphant when she confronted the Supreme Court nominee with the fact that the word “abortion” is not ...

At the Federalist Society convention in November, the White House counsel said, reportedly to everyone’s delight, that “the Trump’s administration’s philosophy on judging can be summarized in two ...

Type to search articles, cases, and authors. Press ↵ to view all results. Katie Eyer is a professor of law at Rutgers Law School. She co-authored an amicus brief on behalf of scholars of statutory ...

Using legislative history as a tool of statutory interpretation is a time-honored tradition. Indeed, the Judiciary's collective "old-time devotion" to the legislative-history hymnal, ante, at 14, held ...

The Federalist Society produced a webinar recently that I found fascinating, not only because I was a panelist. There was a marked divergence of opinion on Fourth Amendment law. I believe I know where ...

At the start of the Trump presidency, the Republicans changed the Senate rules to allow Supreme Court nominees to be confirmed with 51 votes, rather than 60-vote threshold traditionally need to ...

Before Sen. Chuck Grassley took center stage as the new chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, leading the confirmation hearings on attorney general nominee Loretta Lynch, he cut his teeth ...

When Justice Kagan declared at a 2015 “Scalia Lecture” at Harvard Law School that “we are all textualists now,” she may have been a bit premature. The battle over Justice Antonin Scalia's approach to ...

To the editor: Judge Amy Coney Barrett, President Trump’s nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court, has written decisions and scholarly articles dealing with “textualism,” but in her op-ed article law ...