One of the most extraordinary examples in recent decades [of unitary visions of constitutional enterprise] is found in … - Laurence Tribe

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One of the most extraordinary examples in recent decades [of unitary visions of constitutional enterprise] is found in a book called "Takings". . . Epstein makes an extremely clever but stunningly reductionist argument that the whole Constitution is really designed to protect private property. . . Can a constitution reflecting as diverse an array of visions and aspirations as ours really be reducible to such as sadly single-minded vision as that?

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[The Bill of Rights is] designed to protect individuals and minorities against the tyranny of the majority, but it's also designed to protect the people against bureaucracy, against the government.

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The federal government may not disarm individual citizens without some unusually strong justification.

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Even those who, like me, believe that Roe v. Wade and the decisions elaborating on reproductive rights were constitutionally correct must recognize that, for many on the right, the sudden and relatively sloppily reasoned character of the abortion rulings. . . did real damage to the Court's reputation as a relatively neutral arbiter of legal disputes.

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The whole country needs to get to the bottom of what really happened with the Russian collusion allegations. But in the meantime, we have a president Donald Trump who himself says trust me. He does not accept the boundaries of law. He basically says that if anybody gets too close for comfort, I'm going to get rid of them. And as long as that's in place, we cannot afford as a country to put our fate in the hands of someone so whimsical and so unpredictable.

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The Second Amendment does protect the right to people to possess weapons for self-defense in the home. That's what the Supreme Court said.

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