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With the Supreme Court’s recent decision in NIFLA vs. Becerra (2018), and the retirement of Justice Anthony Kennedy at the end of July, many are speculating on what these events mean for future cases that consider freedom of speech and abortion, as well as what these developments mean for the Supreme Court as an institution. Professor Hadley […] …
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In an essay titled, “Another Pro-Life Victory?,” published at First Things, Professor Hadley Arkes probes the logic of the recent Supreme Court ruling in NIFLA v. Becerra. In doing so, he finds the conservative justices achieving yet another laudable outcome this term: a victory for the right of pro-life pregnancy centers to refuse to comply with a […] …
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In defense of his recently published piece “Conservatives and Freedom of Speech,” Professor Arkes, writing in Public Discourse, carefully responds to Professor Robert Miller’s critique that even the most objectively offensive and harmful speech ought to be completely protected in order to safeguard against the tendency of legislatures to make errors of “false positives”. Professor Arkes […] …
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On Friday, June 15th, JWI’s Deputy Director Garrett Snedeker and Intern Michael McCall shared a discussion with Joseph Tartakovsky, author of the new book The Lives of the Constitution: Ten Exceptional Minds that Shaped America’s Supreme Law (Encounter Books, 2018). Mr. Tartakovsky, a lawyer by trade, is currently the James Wilson Fellow in Constitutional Law […] …
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Judge Jeffrey Sutton of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals discussed his new book, “51 Imperfect Solutions: States and the Making of American Constitutional Law,” (Oxford University Press, 2018) at the Heritage Foundation on June 12, 2018. In the video below, the Judge provides a brief overview of his central thesis, and then talks about […] …
