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Even then, it is not obvious why the challengers won a judgment in their favor on the constitutional question. That is because there is a puzzle in the majority opinion\u2014a gap between the rule it announced and the application of the rule&hellip; <\/p><\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-5346 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\/bosnia-and-herzegovina-what-is-the-american-peoples-interest-hon-joseph-e-schmitz-brian-t-kennedy\/\" target=\"_self\" >Bosnia and Herzegovina: What is the American People&#8217;s Interest? \u2013 Hon. Joseph E. Schmitz &amp; Brian T. 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A trifecta of developments in July 2026 highlights a three-fold answer to this question in regards to Bosnia and Herzegovina, the central European country formed by the 1995 Dayton Peace Agreement . .&hellip; <\/p><\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-5326 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-obiter-dicta 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-declaration-of-independence-and-our-legal-tradition\/\" target=\"_self\" >The Declaration of Independence and Our Legal Tradition \u2013 Hon. Trevor McFadden<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2026-07-04T00:27:00-04:00\">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. <\/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><\/ul><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover alignwide is-light\" style=\"padding-top:60px;padding-bottom:60px;min-height:265px;aspect-ratio:unset;\"><span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-cover__background has-white-background-color has-background-dim-100 has-background-dim\"><\/span><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-cover-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns are-vertically-aligned-top has-black-color has-text-color is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-7387b849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-top is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>From the Archive<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-black-color has-text-color\"><em>Carson v. 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