For Episode One, we discuss The Living Constitution vs. The Naked Constitution. I'm joined by Ed Whelan, the president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, and host of NRO's Bench Memos Blog, and by our own James Poulos: historian, lawyer, producer at HuffPost Live and a contributor to Forbes and Vice. In this wide-ranging [...]...»

Veteran appellate judge Richard Posner recently took to the pages of The New Republic to trash - there's no other word for it - the new book by Justice Antonin Scalia and writing guru Bryan Garner: Reading Law: The Interpretation of Legal Texts. Posner's critique generated exultation on the left - after all, here was [...]...»

Tne Naked Constitution podcast is back on Ricochet! This week we discuss the Framers' use of the term "people" (as in, "we the") and "person." I'm joined by contributor Joe Escalante, who, in addition to being a rock star and a matador, is a temporary judge on the Los Angeles Superior Court, as well as [...]...»

On Friday, a state court judge in Wisconsin struck down virtually all of Scott Walker's collective bargaining reform as a violation of both the US and Wisconsin constitutions. The decision is a thinly veiled piece of judicial activism by Judge Juan Colas, who was appointed by the former Democratic Governor, Jim Doyle. How exactly does [...]...»