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August 2024

How Do You Sum Up a Life?
A funeral for a friend not much older than you is a good occasion to review your life's direction.
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Ilya Shapiro
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The Olympics: Plus Ça Change . . .
The symbiotic relationship between sports and society has reverted to its original, proper status under the ancient Greeks: A good time had by all.
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Ilya Shapiro
Legislative Inflation, Rule-of-Law Devaluation
Justice Gorsuch's new book shows what happens when you have too many laws -- and too much law.
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Ilya Shapiro
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The America of Yesterday
What the country has lost since I moved here in 2007.
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July 2024

Biden's SCOTUS "Reform" Is a Cynical Ploy
The Supreme Court doesn't need reform any more than it did ahead of FDR's hugely unpopular court-packing plan.
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Ilya Shapiro
What a Week!
The third week of July felt like a movie script rejected for being unrealistic.
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Ilya Shapiro
Wrapping Up the Supreme Court Term
Statistics and themes on the term that was, and a brief glimpse at the future.
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Ilya Shapiro
Presidents Can't Be Prosecuted for Doing Their Jobs
My take on the Trump immunity case, which the Supreme Court largely got right.
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Ilya Shapiro
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June 2024

Triple Threat Against the Administrative State
Yesterday I filed three briefs challenging various aspects of bureaucratic overreach.
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Ilya Shapiro
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Supreme Court Punts Issue of the Constitutionality of a Wealth Tax
What was supposed to be a major decision on economic policy ended up interesting only people with exotic foreign investments and their tax lawyers.
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Ilya Shapiro
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