When conservative interest groups cheered Charles and Kathleen Moore’s suit against the government over a tax bill,1 they sought to “permanently put…to rest”2 progressive American lawmakers’ calls for a wealth tax.3 Instead, after the Supreme Court unexpectedly “changed the subject,”4 the justices reopened old wounds from the “most intense legal discourse” of an earlier era, […]

“Poverty and immorality are not synonymous,” the Supreme Court once observed. 1 A set of laws that would restrict where “the poor and the unpopular” are allowed to exist on public property “merely at the whim of any police officer”2 is bad, the Court said. 3 Such a regime “would provide a convenient tool for […]

The law of constitutional remedies is tightly coupled with the law of equity. In the early twentieth century, suits in equity became the “normal mechanism” through which constitutional rights were protected against violation by government officials.1 From the 1950s to the 1970s, the structural injunction — which emerged as a tool to combat segregation — […]

Marriage grants a couple a set of rights,1 and chief among them is the ability to live with his or her spouse.2 However, this right seems to disappear if one spouse is not a U.S. citizen. Sandra Muñoz, a U.S. citizen, learned this firsthand when her husband, Luis Asencio-Cordero, an immigrant from El Salvador, was […]

The substantive law under which defendants are prosecuted can vary from state to state.1 But regardless of jurisdiction, there are procedural barriers against successive prosecutions.2 States like Georgia have created their own barriers to criminal proceedings by passing laws and amending their own constitutions.3 The federal barrier, contained in the Double Jeopardy Clause of the […]

More than fifteen years after the Supreme Court’s decision in District of Columbia v. Heller,1 “the right of the people to keep and bear arms”2 is no longer “a ‘second-class’ right.”3 As a focus of popular,4 academic,5 and judicial attention,6 perhaps no constitutional provision is as hotly contested today as the Second Amendment, and the […]

“History and tradition” has emerged as a dominant mode of constitutional interpretation on the Supreme Court in recent terms.1 But while the Court’s conservative justices largely agree that history should be used to interpret the Constitution,2 there remains disagreement about how to do so. In this term, a dispute over a restriction on trademark registration […]

Financial planning for a law firm partner requires specific expertise and an understanding of the complexities that arise throughout a partner’s life cycle. One of the most significant events in this cycle is promotion to partner. The changes involved go far beyond the compensation component and affect nearly every aspect of your financial life, from […]

Guns, abortion, religious institutions, presidential power: While today’s Supreme Court identifies itself as originalist, it has resolved constitutional questions on these and many other topics using history and tradition, not just original meaning.1 Scholars debate whether this tendency can be reconciled with originalism.2 In the recent period, originalist justices themselves have joined the fray. Their […]

Key Points Alphabet sharesrose 6% on Tuesday, a day after the company hailed its latest quantum computing chip as a “breakthrough.” Google’s parent company on Monday unveiled “Willow,” a quantum computing chip that the company said performed significantly better on a quantum computing benchmark than its predecessor in 2019. Willow, like similar quantum chips, uses […]