Constitutional Originalists – Andrew Koppelman

Climate change and the Supreme Court’s version of police abolitionism — The Hill Column

By Andrew Koppelman | August 1, 2022 |

West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency, which in June gutted the Biden administration’s ability to reduce the electrical power industry’s carbon emissions, may be the Supreme Court’s most reckless and lawless decision (in an extremely competitive field). The court comes close to anarchism, crippling Congress’s capacity to protect the country from disaster and undermining the…

Originalism and the football coach’s prayer — The Hill Column

By Andrew Koppelman | June 2, 2022 |

Amid the recent Supreme Court argument over a high school football coach’s demand to lead his players in prayer, the judges lost sight of one of the central purposes of the First Amendment’s prohibition on “establishment of religion” — a purpose that should be of particular concern to the court’s self-styled originalists. The justices’ questions…

Andrew Koppelman
John Paul Stevens Professor of Law and Professor
of Political Science at Northwestern University

Andrew Koppelman

John Paul Stevens Professor of Law and Professor of Political Science at Northwestern University

Posts Tagged ‘Constitutional Originalists’

Climate change and the Supreme Court’s version of police abolitionism — The Hill Column

Originalism and the football coach’s prayer — The Hill Column