Saturday, June 4, 2022

Weekend Roundup

  • James Oakes's review in the New York Review of Books of Noah Feldman's The Broken Constitution has brought a reply from Feldman, a response from Oakes--both here--and a comment from John Fabian Witt (Balkinization).
  • ICYMI, Justice Alito Edition:  Leslie J. Reagan on What Alito Gets Wrong About the History of Abortion in America (Politico).  Anthony Tang on What Justice Alito Can Learn From a 114-Year-Old Sex Abuse Scandal (Slate).  Same-sex marriages should be considered "newer than cell phones," JSTOR observes in this pointer to "What, Another Female Husband?": The Prehistory of Same-Sex Marriage in America, by Rachel Hope Cleves, in the Journal of American History 101 (March 2015): 1055-1081.
  • ICYMI: Tim Naftali on The Death of Nonpartisan Presidential History (The Atlantic). Suzanne McGee on 5 Historic Supreme Court Rulings Based on the 14th Amendment (History Channel).  Claire Potter on what Emma Goldman's 1919 deportation hearing teaches about censorship embedded in other laws (Political Junkie). Garrett Epps on The Supreme Court and the Originalist Fallacy (Washington Monthly).
  • Update: Supreme Court Justice Russell Brown on the legal history of Medicine Hat (Medicine Hat News).

Weekend Roundup is a weekly feature compiled by all the Legal History bloggers.