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Trevor McFadden<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2026-07-04T00:27:09-04:00\">July 4, 2026<\/time><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">My remarks today are a celebration of sorts. This July marks America\u2019s 250th birthday. A quarter millennium since we broke away from the Old World and charted our own course through the currents of world history. And what a journey it has been. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 250 years is a major milestone. By some accounts, it is&hellip; <\/p><\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-5318 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-per-curiam\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\" style=\"padding-top:30px;padding-right:30px;padding-bottom:30px;padding-left:30px\"><h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/journals.law.harvard.edu\/jlpp\/the-right-way-to-take-on-trial-lawyers-and-woke-lawfare-o-h-skinner\/\" target=\"_self\" >The Right Way to Take on Trial Lawyers and Woke Lawfare &#8211; O.H. Skinner<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2026-06-24T00:11:33-04:00\">June 24, 2026<\/time><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">There is growing concern about the ways that trial lawyers are hijacking our court system, turning it into both a backdoor mechanism for achieving progressive policy outcomes and a reliable source of political money for left-wing candidates and political committees, often in coordination with activist groups. The problem calls for a response, especially from conservatives&hellip; <\/p><\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-5311 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-per-curiam tag-birthright-citizenship tag-constitutional-law tag-fourteenth-amendment\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\" style=\"padding-top:30px;padding-right:30px;padding-bottom:30px;padding-left:30px\"><h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/journals.law.harvard.edu\/jlpp\/subject-to-the-jurisdiction-as-legal-text-james-a-heilpern-keith-e-whittington\/\" target=\"_self\" >\u201cSubject to the Jurisdiction\u201d as Legal Text \u2013 James A. Heilpern &amp; Keith E. Whittington<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2026-06-01T17:38:33-04:00\">June 1, 2026<\/time><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">The overwhelming weight of evidence indicates that \u201csubject to the jurisdiction\u201d was not used to refer to, or make use of, concepts of \u201callegiance\u201d but rather was routinely used to describe the circumstances in which individuals were under the governing authority of the sovereign. <\/p><\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-4894 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-per-curiam tag-birthright-citizenship tag-constitutional-law tag-fourteenth-amendment\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\" style=\"padding-top:30px;padding-right:30px;padding-bottom:30px;padding-left:30px\"><h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/journals.law.harvard.edu\/jlpp\/addressing-some-perceived-anomalies-referenced-in-the-trump-v-barbara-oral-argument-samuel-estreicher-rudra-reddy\/\" target=\"_self\" >Addressing Some Perceived Anomalies Referenced in the\u00a0Trump v. Barbara\u00a0Oral Argument\u00a0\u2013 Samuel Estreicher &amp; Rudra Reddy<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2026-05-08T16:27:49-04:00\">May 8, 2026<\/time><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">We write here only to address certain perceived anomalies noted by some the Justices during the oral argument in\u00a0Trump v. Barbara\u00a0in the hope that it will help the Court\u2019s deliberations.\u00a0 <\/p><\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-4886 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-per-curiam tag-administrative-law tag-declaration-of-independence tag-rationality tag-the-founding\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\" style=\"padding-top:30px;padding-right:30px;padding-bottom:30px;padding-left:30px\"><h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/journals.law.harvard.edu\/jlpp\/the-declaration-of-independence-as-kindling-the-american-culture-of-reason-giving-donald-j-kochan\/\" target=\"_self\" >The Declaration of Independence as Kindling the American Culture of Reason-Giving \u2013 Donald J. Kochan<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2026-04-24T15:36:55-04:00\">April 24, 2026<\/time><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">A related lesson to be drawn from the Declaration of Independence that has been underexplored: It was an exercise and exemplar of \u201creason-giving,\u201d arguably kindling by example a custom and culture of reason-giving in American law and politics. <\/p><\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-4885 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-per-curiam tag-constitutional-law tag-criminal-procedure tag-fourth-amendment tag-technology tag-third-party-doctrine\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\" style=\"padding-top:30px;padding-right:30px;padding-bottom:30px;padding-left:30px\"><h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/journals.law.harvard.edu\/jlpp\/post-carpenter-confusion-to-post-chatrie-clarity-a-shea-daley-burdette\/\" target=\"_self\" >Post-Carpenter\u00a0Confusion to Post-Chatrie Clarity &#8211; A. 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