The Three-Whisky Happy Hour: Emergency Midweek Edition
Why let our frenemies at the Commentary podcast (frenemies since they dissed the sacred McRib recently) have all the fun with their emergency podcasts: after today’s errant Supreme Court rulings, it was necessary for the 3WHH bartenders —well two of us at least—to jump to our mics to express our outrage, but also to celebrate briefly Trump’s tour de force speech before Congress last night. And not to mention the second installment of our conversation with Richard Epstein, this time on his slim, commendable, and highly readable short book, How Progressives Rewrote the Constitution.
So sit back and enjoy your midweek dram of neat single malt with us.
The Three Whiskey Happy Hour
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Northern Exposure Edition
With two of the three bartenders hanging around near or above the arctic circle this week, this is an official Northern Exposure episode of 3 Whisky Happy Hour.
The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Time for Viking Justice?
Free trade, Trump's attack on Harvard, and more.
Constitutionalism
Amicus Brief: Hon. William P. Barr and Hon. Michael B. Mukasey in Support of Petitioners
Former AGs Barr and Mukasey Cite Civitas in a SCOTUS Brief
Rational Judicial Review: Constitutions as Power-sharing Agreements, Secession, and the Problem of Dred Scott
Judicial review and originalism serve as valuable commitment mechanisms to enforce future compliance with a political bargain.
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State Courts Can’t Run Foreign Policy
Suncor is also a golden opportunity for the justices to stop local officials from interfering with an industry critical to foreign and national-security policy.
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Colorado’s Secularist Hostility Strikes Again
The Supreme Court needs to give lower federal courts a more workable test for determining when facially neutral conditions constitute religious exclusion.
Justice Harlan and President Trump Are Right About Birth Tourism
The Supreme Court should follow Justice Harlan’s lead: Children of illegal aliens are citizens at birth, but children born to pregnant women on temporary tourist visas are not.
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