…the ruling would not be a First Amendment corporate-rights decision. The First Amendment prospects for an implicit narrowing of Citizens United was the main focus of my post yesterday. But…

…the First Amendment rights of their human-citizen shareholders. Which presents the question of why CEOs of publicly-traded corporations should be entitled under the guise of the First Amendment’s speech clause…

…obligations by which employees who opt out of membership nonetheless gain the benefits of the union contract (pay, benefits, job protections), violates the employee’s First Amendment speech rights. But what’s…

Live-blogging the Fifteenth Amendment: December 7, 1868 In the Senate: “Mr. Craving asked, and by unanimous consent obtained, leave to introduce a joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution…

…a constitutional amendment there to extend the franchise to the negro; and I ask what difference is there between an amendment to the constitution of my State and an amendment…

…that the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment incorporates the Second Amendment right recognized in Heller. Justice Alito describes himself as a practical originalist. 14th Amendment: Section1. All persons…

by Mike Kimel The Problem with the Second Amendment A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and…

…it down as violative of the First Amendment.) And notwithstanding his joining the opinion written by John Roberts for all the justices except Alito two years ago striking down as…

…. . . since real PCE goods has been running at 28.3% of GDP, that suggests that 4th quarter PCE goods would add roughly 0.34 percentage points to 4th quarter…

…take the difference between the 4th quarter inflation adjusted average and January’s inflation adjusted spending  as a fraction of inflation adjusted 4th quarter GDP, and find that January construction spending is…