The Latest Breaking News from Michael McConnell

Some thoughts from Michael McConnell, Douglas Laycock, Stephanie Barclay, and Mark Storslee.

Trump's assertions of broad, unchecked executive power are a predictable result of the court's "immunity" decision

Michael McConnell fears the decision by Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg to eliminate fact checking will not work.

I'm delighted to be able to pass along this item from my Stanford colleague Prof. Michael McConnell (Stanford Law School),… The post Prof. Michael McConnell on The Supreme Court's Religion Docket appeared first on Reason.com.

I'm delighted to pass along this item from my Hoover Institution colleague Michael McConnell, who is also a professor at… The post From Prof. Michael McConnell: Meta Oversight Board Steps Up To Protect Conservative Political Speech appeared first on Reason.com.

I'm delighted to pass along this item from my Stanford colleague Prof. Michael McConnell (who also served for several years on the Tenth Circuit): The National Law Journal reports that retired district court judge Nancy Gertner, joined by ethics experts Stephen Gillers and James Sample, have filed an amicus brief…

Special counsel has "more than enough incriminating evidence" to move forward if he cuts official acts from charges

I'm delighted to pass along this item from Prof. McConnell (Stanford), one of the leading American originalist scholars: I most often agree with my good friends and casebook co-authors Will Baude and Michael Paulsen on matters of constitutional interpretation. But not about the attempted disqualification of Donald Trump for running…

[Note: This is the fourth in a series of essays responding to objections that have been made to enforcing Section Three of the Constitution. The first three essays can be found here, here, and here.] Some critics have made the argument that Section Three cannot or should not be used…

[Note: This is the second in a series of essays responding to objections that have been made to enforcing Section Three of the Constitution. The first, introductory essay, can be found here.] What about democracy?! We should let the people vote for whomever they want! Perhaps the most common objection…

I have not been deep in the weeds of the arguments about Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment, unlike my constitutional law casebook coauthors: Mike Paulsen, Michael McConnell, and Will Baude. But it is surprising to me that the former President of the United States seems to be putting most…