I defer to David Super on all matters related to the budget process, but a "pocket rescission" sure sounds like a line-item veto. I'm not a fan of the Supreme Court's opinion
in Clinton v. City of New York, but I don't see any appetite on the current Court to overrule or narrow that case. [...]
The Oldest Constitutional Question is a superb book, full of penetrating insights and cogent arguments. Richard Primus has been thinking about enumerated powers for a long
time, and it shows. The book will, I hope, go a long way toward changing the existing conversation in constitutional law, although whether it has any influence [...]
[First posted in AWOL 12 January 2022, updated 18 July 2025] [First posted in AWOL 12 January 2022, updated 18 July 2025] [First posted in AWOL 12 January 2022, updated
18 July 2025] [...]
Vencidos, pero no olvidados: Narrativas y memorias de las sociedades derrotadas en la Antigüedad Vol. 14 Núm. 28 (2025) of Revista Universitaria de Historia Militar (ISSN:
2254-6111) [...]
Aphek-Antipatris II: The Remains on the Acropolis: The Moshe Kochavi and Pirhiya Beck Excavations Yuval Gadot and Esther Yadin 2009 Open access (PDF)More Information:
ISBN: 9652660256 [...]
Diachronic Diversity in Classical Biblical Hebrew Aaron D. Hornkohl (author) Aaron D. Hornkohl (author) According to the standard periodisation of ancient Hebrew, the
division of Biblical Hebrew as reflected in the Masoretic tradition is basically dichotomous: pre-exilic Classical Biblical Hebrew (CBH) versus post-Restoration [...]
This week, Doron Narotzki (Akron; Google Scholar) reviews a new work by Błażej Kuźniacki (Lazarski; Google Scholar) & Reuven S. Avi-Yonah (Michigan; Google Scholar), Rule
of Law v. Rule of Power: US Tax Defense Measures in Light of the International Law of Countermeasures. [...]
I may have more to say about these two matters next week, and I highly recommend that readers review Florian Mueller’s posts on ip fray (see here, here, and here), if you
have not done so already; but I also wanted to post something today (even if it is somewhat cursory), while these matters are fresh. The two are (1) the decision [...]
As the United States Supreme Court enters its summer recess and concludes its first months of engagement with the Trump Administration’s program of “radical constitutionalism”,
the progressive opposition is debating the right strategy for the conflict’s next phase. [...]
