Under Chief Justice John Roberts, the current US Supreme Court has become one of the most partisan in American history. This judicial devotion to party could not come at a more dangerous time, as President Donald Trump endeavors to amass more power for the presidency than any prior chief executive. The Supreme Court has always [...]
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Presidential Emergencies, Tariffs, and the Supreme Court's Next Move
The US Supreme Court has decided that it will take up the legality of a significant part of President Donald Trump’s tariff regime. The Court has scheduled arguments for November in V.O.S. Selections v. Trump, in which the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit struck down tariffs issued pursuant to the International Emergency Economic [...]
Another Important Victory for the Legal Profession—and Democracy
The recent federal district court ruling striking down the Trump administration’s executive order targeting the law firm Susman Godfrey is the fourth similar ruling in response to orders punishing firms that took on clients and causes adverse to Trump’s interests. Now, each of the four firms that chose to file challenges in court has prevailed, [...]
Takeaways From the First Student-Led Model US Constitutional Convention
In a letter written to James Madison from Paris, Thomas Jefferson opined that “no society can make a perpetual constitution, or even a perpetual law. . . . Every constitution, then, and every law, naturally expires at the end of 19 years.” Jefferson took this perspective because he believed that “he earth belongs to the [...]
JP Leskovich is a rising 3L at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law and JURIST’s News Managing Editor. He filed this dispatch from Phoenix. This is the third in a series of dispatches he’s filed as an embedded reporter for JURIST at the Model Constitutional Convention sponsored by the Center for Constitutional Design at [...]
JP Leskovich is a rising 3L at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law and JURIST’s News Managing Editor. He filed this dispatch from Phoenix. This is the second in a series of dispatches he’s filing as an embedded reporter for JURIST at the Model Constitutional Convention sponsored by the Center for Constitutional Design at [...]
JP Leskovich is a rising 3L at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law and JURIST’s News Managing Editor. He filed this dispatch from Phoenix. This is the first of several dispatches he will be filing over the next few days providing exclusive coverage of the Constitutional Convention proceedings as an embedded reporter for JURIST. [...]
In the Halls of Brazil's Senate: Unpacking the Legacy of the US Constitution
To date, America’s greatest contribution to the world has been its Constitution. The importance of this document far surpasses such other cultural achievements as the Moon landing, the telephone, GPS, rubber vulcanization, and Henry Ford’s mass production lines. It is more important, even, than Gone With the Wind, and the hamburger — even though this [...]
The United States Constitution was signed by the members of the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia on September 17, 1787. We have entered the 237th year of our national Constitution, which continues its legacy as the oldest written constitution in the world. Yes, we have the immense good fortune to live in the oldest constitutional democracy [...]
Sandra Day O'Connor, first woman on US Supreme Court, dead at 93
Sandra Day O’Connor, the first woman to sit on the US Supreme Court, died Friday. According to an announcement from the court, O’Connor died of “complications related to advanced dementia, probably Alzheimer’s, and a respiratory illness” at the age of 93. O’Connor was appointed to the court in 1981 by then-president Ronald Reagan. During her [...]
