Let’s Try This Blogging Thing Again

Ladies and gentlemen, I’ve suffered from my blogging.  Now, it’s your turn.

I founded my website on this day, Constitution Day, in 2010.  It has undergone many changes since then, and I even shuttered it four years ago when I went to law school.  I really wanted to become a lawyer and do well in law school, so I tried to avoid the distraction of the constant temptation to comment on just about anything.  Then, I kept it shuttered for an additional year for largely that same reason, but also for work-related reasons.  Now, I’m moving on to the next chapter of my professional life, so I’m going to try to write somewhat regularly again.  Like a good horror story, writing keeps my alligators fed.

To get you started, here are some new posts on the rational basis test for reviewing challenged statutes, the effect of antitrust law on a recent agreement between automakers to heighten fuel efficiency and reduce carbon emissions, a 1979 debate between Monty Python’s John Cleese and Michael Palin, a Catholic bishop, and an evangelical journalist, and, because we’re starting to hear again, in light of the release of A Republic, If You Can Keep It, Justice Neil Gorsuch and his former law clerks Jane Nitze David Feder’s new book, that Republicans stole a Supreme Court seat from Obama nominee Judge Merrick Garland, some commentary on that fallacy.