Heroes Born of Women: Abortion, Servitude, and a People’s Originalism, Installation II

This work is a continuation of: Heroes Born of Women: Abortion, Servitude, and a People’s Originalism, Installation I. Installation I sets out the method of people’s originalism and discusses the challenges faced by originalist methodologies. This second installation...

Heroes Born of Women: Abortion, Servitude, and a People’s Originalism, Installation I

In the last fifty years, originalism has gone from being an obscure academic theory to making national headlines. Notably, the United States Supreme Court in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization[1] relied on the originalist methodology of original public...

Dobbs v. History, Part Two: American Common Law

Lost arguments are not grounds to overrule a case. When proponents of those arguments, greater now in number on the Court, return to fight old battles anew, it betrays an unrestrained disregard for precedent. It fosters the People’s suspicions that “bedrock principles...

Dobbs v. History, Part Two: American Common Law

Lost arguments are not grounds to overrule a case. When proponents of those arguments, greater now in number on the Court, return to fight old battles anew, it betrays an unrestrained disregard for precedent. It fosters the People’s suspicions that “bedrock principles...

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Dobbs v. History, Part One: English Common Law

This piece is the first of a four-part series examining how common law and 19th-century statutes support pre-viability abortion as a constitutionally protected right under the Ninth and Fourteenth Amendments. Part one specifically explores the Court’s analytical missteps in Dobbs’ discussion of historic English Common Law.

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The Arguments to be Made for Rahimi

I. Background United States v. Rahimi has the potential to greatly affect Second Amendment jurisprudence regarding how courts consider domestic violence restraining orders. See United States v. Rahimi, 217 L.Ed.2d 250 (U.S. 2023). On appeal from the Fifth Circuit,...

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Let Labor Speak!

Let Labor Speak!

The Unconstitutional Attack on Free Speech by the Nassau County Supreme Court   “[T]he problem is not our speech, but their attempts to unjustly intimidate us out of speaking.” - Allie Goodman on the Working People podcast, ALAA UAW 2325 Member In October and...

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