Author name: David Adler

Court’s creation of Executive Privilege without foundation By David Adler The Supreme Court’s historic rejection in U.S. v. Nixon (1974) — “The Watergate Tapes Case” — of President Richard Nixon’s…...

Executive Privilege: Flimsy historical defenses By David Adler Delegates to the Constitutional Convention, as we have seen, did not fail to address the issue of presidential authority to invoke executive…...

Article V: Amendments to Create a “More Perfect Union” By David Adler Article V of the Constitution—the Amendatory Clause—provides the constitutionally prescribed means for changing the Constitution to keep it…...

Supreme Court’s authority engulfed by storms and polarization By David Adler The Supreme Court’s authority, grounded since the dawn of the republic in its prestige and reputation, now faces the…...

The right to privacy and the road to Roe v. Wade By David Adler The Supreme Court’s watershed decision in Griswold v. Connecticut (1965) which, as we have seen, introduced…...

Through the mists of time: Origins of the right to privacy By David Adler The U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark decision in the 1965 case of Griswold v. Connecticut established the…...

Through the mists of time: Origins of the right to privacy By David Adler Although not mentioned in the Constitution, the right to privacy has been invoked by its enormous…...

John Marshall and the Need for Judicial Transparency By David Adler Whatever you think about the U.S. Supreme Court’s controversial, 5-4 midnight ruling on the Texas statute forbidding most abortions…...