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Administrative Censorship: How Chilling Effects Spread
Censorship today arrives not in jackboots but in memos, forms, and pauses 'pending review.' This essay maps how administrative routines—procurement rules, complaint pathways, ambiguous guidance—convert discomfort into policy and policy into habit.
Inventing Tradition: Originalism as Judicial Activism
Call it the constitutionalist's promise: decide by text, history, and structure rather than by vibe or partisan appetite. In principle, that's healthy. In practice, on the current Supreme Court, the methods deliver outcomes that lean the same direction over and over—and create a new vision of the.
Three-Card Constitution: The Federalism Dodge
When the Court abandoned tiered scrutiny in Bruen and demanded that gun regulations match the Nation's historical tradition, it turned constitutional litigation into an antiquarian contest. This detailed analysis examines how specific doctrinal moves reshape the balance of constitutional power.