Mikolaj Barczentewicz (Oxford): Who Made the United States Constitution? Steven R. Morrison (North Dakota): The Conspiracy Origin of the First Amendment. Robert Hunt Sprinkle on slavery and guns, America’s “peculiar institutions”: How are U.S. “gun rights” today an extension of a right created to preserve slavery? The introduction to The Long Decade: How 9/11 Changed the Law, ed. David Jenkins (and Chapter 10: Citizenship and the Limits of Due Process Since 9/11). Robin Bradley Kar reviews Boilerplate: The Fine Print, Vanishing Rights, and the Rule of Law by Margaret Jane Radin. On the eve of a new Supreme Court session, Antonin Scalia discusses gay rights and media echo chambers, Seinfeld and the Devil, and how much he cares about his intellectual legacy (and more). Scalia's legal reasoning is lousier than his New York interview. David Cole on the Roberts Court: What kind of conservatives? Ian Millhiser and Nicole Flatow on abortion, big money in elections, and eleven other huge cases the Supreme Court will hear next term. Nora Caplan-Bricker on how the Supreme Court could endanger victims of domestic violence. Ray V. Hartwell reviews The Supreme Court vs. The Constitution by Gerald Walpin. Andrew C. McCarthy on the plot to save America: There's a little-known loophole in the Constitution that will allow states to get America back on course. Chris Radomile on 4 constitutional debates America's founders never saw coming.
