Biography
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Josh Blackman holds the Centennial Chair of Constitutional Law at South Texas College of Law and is an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute. He has authored three books, and his latest, An Introduction to Constitutional Law, was a top five bestseller on Amazon. He is a contributing editor to Civitas Outlook.
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Ending Nationwide Injunctions
The Originalist Case for Birthright Citizenship
Trump Could Have a Strong Case to Revoke Harvard’s Tax-Exempt Status
Are Trump’s Tariffs Legal?
DOGE & USAID
An M.I.A. Congress Exacerbates the Clash Between Trump and the Courts
Trump’s Risky Reliance on the Alien Enemies Act
Are We in a Constitutional Crisis?
The Claim That Trump Is Causing a Constitutional Crisis Ignores a Key Reality
Trump’s Worthy Effort to Rein In ‘Independent’ Agencies
Breaking Watergate's Hold on the Presidency
Trump And Vance Aren’t Defying The Constitution, They’re Following It
Return to the Monroe Doctrine
Trump's Immigration Agenda and the Constitution
Trump and the Panama Canal: Why He Should Invoke the Monroe Doctrine
Why International Arrest Warrants for Netanyahu and Putin Are Anti-democracy Legal Garbage
We Need a Full Accounting of Biden’s Presidential Incapacity
Joe Biden’s Unpardonable Pardons