Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As a constitutional law professor, the author of “A Debt Against the Living: An Introduction to Originalism,” and an originalist, ...

To the editor: Originalism is not “common sense,” contrary to University of Virginia law professor Lawrence B. Solum’s assertion. Instead, it is the noxious idea that we are bound by the prejudices ...

Perhaps the biggest reason Republicans love Neil Gorsuch's selection as President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee — apart from his age — is the fact that he's a demonstrated originalist. Among ...

America is being led astray by a small handful of folks who are drunk-driving on originalism—and not in a funny Marx Brothers, spin-around-in-circles-and-all-fall-down sort of way. No, it’s in a ...

American law has not historically been good to women, and whatever progress there once was is now vulnerable to regression. This return is being midwifed into the world by the theory of constitutional ...

Yesterday, I linked to most of an exchange between professors Michael Dorf and Larry Solum about whether originalism constrains judges. Solum has since posted the fourth and final of his replies, on ...

This is part of How Originalism Ate the Law, a Slate series about the legal theory that ruined everything. Originalism is now the dominant approach to constitutional interpretation for the Republican ...

The Latest Outlook for Trump’s Impact on the Judiciary This Day in Liberal Judicial Activism—April 23 The Justice Nobody Saw Coming: A Review of Alito Audio By Carbonatix On his Legal Theory blog, law ...

When the country elects a Republican president, and there's an opening on the U.S. Supreme Court, that president will nominate a conservative to fill the seat. The question is: What kind of a ...

In advance of the release of his memoir, Life, Law & Liberty, retired Justice Anthony Kennedy sat down with Adam Liptak of the New York Times for an interview. The book discloses (or perhaps confirms) ...

Twitter finally lifted its suspension of the New York Post over its reporting on the laptop of Hunter Biden. The decision came two weeks after Twitter barred access to the story on his emails which ...