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    Disaster for the Constitution: Flawed Assertions of State Sovereignty
    Dr. David Gray Adler
    • May 6, 2021
    • 3 min

    Disaster for the Constitution: Flawed Assertions of State Sovereignty

    No doctrine has posed a greater threat to the U.S. Constitution than the flawed assertion of state sovereignty. It represented the...
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    Probing Federalism: The Supremacy Clause
    Dr. David Gray Adler
    • Apr 29, 2021
    • 3 min

    Probing Federalism: The Supremacy Clause

    “Federalism,” which refers to the allocation of powers between the federal and state governments, has been a source of contention since...
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    A Cell Phone Recording, First Amendment Rights and a Guilty Verdict
    Dr. David Gray Adler
    • Apr 22, 2021
    • 3 min

    A Cell Phone Recording, First Amendment Rights and a Guilty Verdict

    When 17-year old Darnella Frazier used her cell phone on May 25, 2020, to record the murder of George Floyd, a horrifying episode which,...
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    The Biden Commission and the Concept of Court-Packing
    Dr. David Gray Adler
    • Apr 15, 2021
    • 3 min

    The Biden Commission and the Concept of Court-Packing

    President Biden recently signed an executive order creating a bi-partisan commission that will study U.S. Supreme Court reform and, among...
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    The Personal Constitution: Embodied in the First Amendment
    Dr. David Gray Adler
    • Apr 8, 2021
    • 3 min

    The Personal Constitution: Embodied in the First Amendment

    The concept of the “Personal Constitution,” which we introduced in this column last week, is personified in the First Amendment freedoms,...
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    Personalizing the Constitution
    Dr. David Gray Adler
    • Mar 31, 2021
    • 3 min

    Personalizing the Constitution

    Together, the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution form what Gunnar Myrdal called, the “American Creed.” The...
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    Fundamental Fairness: Statehood for Washington DC
    Dr. David Gray Adler
    • Mar 25, 2021
    • 4 min

    Fundamental Fairness: Statehood for Washington DC

    The introduction of H.R. 51, a bill to make Washington, D.C. the 51st state—the “Washington, Douglas Commonwealth”--would grant its...
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    Protecting Freedom of Speech
    Dr. David Gray Adler
    • Mar 19, 2021
    • 3 min

    Protecting Freedom of Speech

    As we have seen in our recent discussion of tests employed by the U.S. Supreme Court to determine the parameters of speech afforded...
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    Holmes’s Defense of Freedom of Speech
    Dr. David Gray Adler
    • Mar 12, 2021
    • 3 min

    Holmes’s Defense of Freedom of Speech

    Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes’s invention in 1919, in Schenck v. United States, of the Clear and Present Danger Test, provided little...
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    Dissenting Speech v. National Security Claims
    Dr. David Gray Adler
    • Mar 3, 2021
    • 4 min

    Dissenting Speech v. National Security Claims

    The question of governmental authority to punish speech in the name of national security came before the Supreme Court for the first time...
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    May Government Curtail Free Speech?
    Dr. David Gray Adler
    • Feb 26, 2021
    • 4 min

    May Government Curtail Free Speech?

    Does the government have authority to curtail speech that might cause injury to our national security?
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    Free Speech Clause: Origins and Purposes
    Dr. David Gray Adler
    • Feb 19, 2021
    • 3 min

    Free Speech Clause: Origins and Purposes

    The guarantee of freedom of speech, central to Americans’ participation in self-governance and the life of the nation...
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    Free Constitutional Seminars
    Dr. David Gray Adler
    • Feb 12, 2021
    • 3 min

    Free Constitutional Seminars

    The U.S. Constitution is all-Broadway, all the time. Americans may not realize its center stage presence in the life of the nation, but
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    The Constitution and the Trump Impeachment Trial
    Dr. David Gray Adler
    • Feb 5, 2021
    • 4 min

    The Constitution and the Trump Impeachment Trial

    The forthcoming Senate impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump raises a host of constitutional questions...
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    Trial for a Former President?
    Dr. David Gray Adler
    • Jan 29, 2021
    • 3 min

    Trial for a Former President?

    Does the U.S. Senate have the authority to hold an impeachment trial for former President Donald Trump?
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    Impeachment Trial of Senate
    Dr. David Gray Adler
    • Jan 22, 2021
    • 4 min

    Impeachment Trial of Senate

    Sometime soon, private citizen Donald Trump will become the first former president to face a Senate impeachment trial...
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    Removing A President
    Dr. David Gray Adler
    • Jan 19, 2021
    • 5 min

    Removing A President

    Memories of the footage of the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, on January 6, 2021, will be forever etched in the minds of the citizenry.
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    Impeachment Thwarts Trump Pardon
    Dr. David Gray Adler
    • Jan 15, 2021
    • 4 min

    Impeachment Thwarts Trump Pardon

    President Donald Trump’s assertion of constitutional authority to grant himself a pardon was effectively blocked on January 13...
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    What Does a Coup Look Like?
    Dr. David Gray Adler
    • Jan 8, 2021
    • 3 min

    What Does a Coup Look Like?

    To its horror, America witnessed on January 6, 2021, an insurrection. Millions watched, in real time...
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    Reversing Electoral College Vote?
    Dr. David Gray Adler
    • Jan 1, 2021
    • 4 min

    Reversing Electoral College Vote?

    Efforts by President Donald Trump and congressional republicans to subvert the ceremonial counting of electoral votes is a witches' brew...
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