Harvard lawprof Laurence Tribe predicted the way the Supreme Court would resolve the Obamacare case.

Long before the case was decided, he clearly and repeatedly stated the taxing power argument that Chief Justice Roberts ultimately adopted: ...

Laurence Tribe says Obama "didn't say what he meant" about the Supreme Court and needs to "clarify."

"I don’t think anything was gained by his making these comments and I don’t think any harm was done... except by public confusion....

"Have academics really become so political that we are now required to write partisan pamphlets rather than scholarly treatises?"

Scott Douglas Gerber, commenting on the reaction he got to his book "First Principles: The Jurisprudence of Clarence Thomas." [H]...

Does asking for 5 1/2 hours of oral argument mean that the Supreme Court thinks the Obamacare case is difficult?

That's the Wall Street Journal's preferred interpretation. The "constitutionality" of the Obama health care law, Harvard L...

Laurence Tribe on the absurdly strained notion that the debt ceiling violates the 14th Amendment.

A NYT op-ed: Several law professors and senators, and even Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner, have suggested that section 4 of the 14th...

Whatever happened to the "purchase" Larry Tribe thought Elena Kagan had on Anthony Kennedy's brain?

Remember that embarrassing sentence in Larry Tribe's letter pushing President Obama to nominate Elena Kagan? "Neither Steve Breyer...

"Her womb was a barren desert in which my seed could find no purchase."

April finally comes up with the quote that my quote from Larry Tribe reminded her of. I was riffing on "Neither Steve Breyer nor Ruth G...

“Neither Steve Breyer nor Ruth Ginsburg has much of a purchase on Tony Kennedy’s mind.”

That's actually the most embarrassing sentence in Larry Tribe's letter to Obam a about who to nominate to the Supreme Court. I love ...

Blogging lawprofs, go back to your law review articles.

Over at Balkinization, lawprof Larry Tribe writes a long-winded post defending Judge Anna Diggs Taylor's opinion in ACLU v. NSA. He thi...

"Revealing the operational content of nominees’ constitutional commitments."

Yale Law Journal's Pocket Part has some legal scholars discussing what sorts of questions the Judiciary Committee should ask Samuel Alit...

Cries of pain heard.

The Washington Post's "Campaign for the Supreme Court" blog linked to my post about Alito, the FMLA, and Larry Tribe. This l...

Alito and the Family and Medical Leave Act -- Part 5.

Harvard lawprof Laurence Tribe on the FMLA case: YOU CAN'T help doing a double-take when you read Judge Samuel Alito's opinion holdi...

Harriet Miers as the new entry on the list of nonmathematician math majors.

Here 's a good list for reference. How does the interest in and aptitude for math affect how one behaves in non-mathematical aspects of ...

A dangerous, cramped, narrow view of the right of privacy?

Noting the belief that Robert Bork was defeated because he disaffirmed the right of privacy, Adam Liptak tries to discern what Supreme Cour...