Birthright Citizenship and Nationwide Injunctions
The Court has suddenly decided to place limitations on injunctions when they were preventing a brazenly unconstitutional executive order.
Patrick J. Sobkowski
Patrick J. Sobkowski is a professor at Marquette University. He writes about constitutional law and administrative law. You can follow him on Bluesky at @patsobkowski.com.
The Unitary Executive: A Primer for the People
The basics of a jurisprudence that, much more than originalism, defines the second Trump administration.
Article II as Suicide Pact
Justice Robert Jackson's fear that "doctrinaire logic" could turn the Constitution into a "suicide pact" was warranted, but the Bill of Rights is not the problem.
Trump, Hegseth, and the Fallacies of the Unitary Executive
Accountability in theory, impunity and incompetence in practice.
Moderate Reformers and the American Administrative State: Jesse Tarbert's When Good Government Meant Big Government
Conservatives have long cast a suspicious eye on American government. They have questioned the efficacy and indeed, the constitutionality of the modern American state. Political debate surrounding the administrative state has raged within the courts, within Congress, and within the administrative apparatus of the executive branch itself. Pejoratively dubbed “the