MYSTERIOUS: Michael stokes paulsen - What They Never Told You

A "Bombshell" Or a Dud?

Once again, originalism is only elevated when a scholar with conservative credentials opposes conservative jurisprudence.

Reason · Oct 14, 2025

In Print: Sweeping Section Three Under the Rug

My latest article with Michael Stokes Paulsen is in print

Reason · Jan 20, 2025

The Sweep and Force of Section Three, Published

My article with Michael Stokes Paulsen about the continuing legal force and broad substantive sweep of Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment has now been published in final form in the Penn Law Review. As a reminder, here is the abstract: The Sweep and Force of Section Three Section Three…

Reason · Feb 26, 2024

Professor Akhil Amar, On His Podcast, Responds to Attorney General Mukasey and the Tillman-Blackman Position

Section 3 civility outside and inside Yale Law School.

Reason · Sep 14, 2023

New Article: Sweeping and Forcing the President into Section 3

A Response to William Baude and Michael Stokes Paulsen

Reason · Sep 12, 2023

Georgia has a good case to use 14th Amendment to keep Trump off 2024 presidential ballot

If Georgia barred him from running in 2024, other states may follow, two Loyola University legal experts write. That would leave Trump with no chance to win the electoral votes required to legitimately claim the White House.

Chicago Sun-Times · Sep 9, 2023

Teaching Notes on Students For Fair Admissions v. Harvard

Michael Stokes Paulsen, Michael McConnell, Sam Bray, and I recently completed and posted the 2023 online supplement to our constitutional law casebook: The Constitution of the United States. (I shilled for the book earlier on this blog -- at the start of the Trump administration -- as "A new constitutional…

Reason · Sep 7, 2023

My New Lawfare Article on Trump and the Use of Section 3 Disqualification as a Tool to Protect Democracy Against itself

Section 3 disqualification is justifiable as a democracy-limiting tool to protect democracy. But there are slippery-slope issues that deserve serious consideration.

Reason · Sep 6, 2023

Conversation with Akhil Amar about Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment

A few weeks ago I linked to a new draft article with Michael Stokes Paulsen, The Sweep and Force of Section Three, forthcoming in the Pennsylvania Law Review. The article argues that Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment has continuing, self-executing, legal force and a relatively broad substantive sweep, and…

Reason · Sep 6, 2023

Experts: Trump is already disqualified

Indictments spell out exactly how Trump engaged in efforts to rebel against the Constitution, scholars say

Salon · Aug 22, 2023