Frank Easterbrook’s opinion in Jorge Baez-Sanchez v. Barr calling out the Board of Immigration Appeals — part of the Department of Justice — for thinking it can ignore the judgment of a federal court (“The Board seemed to think that we had issued an advisory opinion, and that faced with a conflict between our views and those of the Attorney General it should follow the later. Yet it should not be necessary to remind the Board, all of whose members are lawyers, that the “judicial Power” under Article III of the Constitution is one to make conclusive decisions, not subject to disapproval or revision by another branch of government.”).
Recent public debate by economists on the role of caste in India’s economics growth. Check out Arpit Gupta’s twitter thread and Tyler Cowen’s podcast with Abhijit Banerjee that discusses the topic.
This interview with our colleague Geof Stone on free speech at Chicago — in the National Review. (“This university is a famously — you might even say notoriously — serious place. Yet Stone is well aware of conditions elsewhere.”)
The Reconstruction Amendments: Essential Documents, Volumes One and Two. Edited by Kurt Lash, forthcoming from the University of Chicago Press, and now available for pre-order. Potentially a game-changer for teaching constitutional history.