Public Scholarship

Public scholarship is important to me. My essays on constitutional law and legal affairs have been published in the New York Times, the New York Review of Books, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, CNN, TIME, Newsweek, Slate, POLITICO Magazine, and other national publications. Selected publications include:

The Late Supreme Court Chief Who Haunts Today’s Conservative Justices, New Republic (Oct. 23, 2024)

Project 2025 Is About Much More Than Trump, TIME (Sept. 18, 2024)

The Supreme Court’s Shockingly Effective Tactic for Having Toxic Opinions Ignored, Slate (July 5, 2024)

Alito's Cosplay as a Scientific Expert Is a Glimpse onto the Future of America Law, S.F. Chronicle (June 30, 2024)

The Hollowing of the Eighth Amendment, N.Y. Rev. of Books (June 18, 2024)

Bad Facts, Bad Law, N.Y. Rev. of Books (Nov. 25, 2023)

A Judicial Rorschach Test, The Drift (Nov. 8, 2023)

Supreme Court Shouldn’t Stop Testers Enforcing Disability Rights, Bloomberg (Oct. 5, 2023) (with Susan Mizner)

Alabama Dusts Off Old Playbook for Diluting the Black Vote, Wash. Post (July 25, 2023)

How DeSantis Packed the Florida Supreme Court, N.Y. Rev. of Books (July 20, 2023)

303 Creative Channels LGBTQ Rights Debate to Health and Education, Bloomberg (July 14, 2023)

What the Recent Supreme Court Rulings Mean for California, S.F. Chronicle (July 3, 2023)

Trump’s Supreme Court Picks Are Less Extreme Than DeSantis’s Choices, CNN (June 27, 2023)

Letter: The Federalist Society and Judges, N.Y. Times (June 27, 2023)

Texas Is Going California on its Housing Laws, Dallas Morn. News (June 5, 2023)

Republicans’ Push for the Death Penalty Embraces the Politics of the Past, Wash. Post (May 23, 2023)

Justice Alito is Living Up to Promises Made to Supporters of His Nomination, Wash. Post (Aug. 9, 2022)

How the Supreme Court Threatens California’s Democracy, S.F. Chron (July 9, 2022)

A Bold Plan to Preserve Access to Abortion after Dobbs, Politico Mag. (June 30, 2022) (with Larry Gostin)

The Remaking of the Second Amendment, N.Y. Rev. of Books (June 10, 2022) (with Reva Siegel)

How Gun-Rights Activists Remade the Second Amendment, Wash. Post (June 3, 2022)

How Two California Judges Just Helped Make the Next Buffalo Shooting Even More Likely, S.F. Chron. (May 20, 2022)

No Matter How You Feel About Masks, You Should Be Alarmed by This Judge’s Decision, N.Y. Times (April 26, 2022) (with Larry Gostin)

A Famous Liberal Justice Offers a Blueprint for Ketanji Brown Jackson, Wash. Post (April 8, 2022)

New York’s Gerrymander Is An Affront to Democratic Principles, Wall St. J. (Feb. 6, 2022)

With the Supreme Court Lurching Right, State Courts Offer Liberals Hope, Wash. Post (Dec. 27, 2021)

Can a Lone Judge Invalidate Every Gun Law in California?, S.F. Chron. (June 8, 2021)

Xavier Becerra is a Victim of the Right’s Distortion of Catholicism, Wash. Post (Mar. 19, 2021)

Bending the Line of Progress, Newsweek (Jan. 8, 2021)

When Will DeSantis Listen to his Own Voters on Ex-Felons Voting Rights? Orlando Sentinel (Sept. 24, 2020)

Mike Pompeo’s Originalist Foreign Policy, Pub. Seminar (July 23, 2020)

No, Mike Pompeo, America Was Not Founded As A Christian Nation, Take Care Blog (Apr. 17, 2020)

In the Fight Against Coronavirus, Be Careful Not to Damage Democracy, Hartford Courant (Mar. 26, 2020)

Trump’s Anti-Abortion and Anti-Immigration Policies May Share a Goal, TIME (Dec. 13, 2019) (with Reva Siegel)

Ted Cruz’s Galling, Hypocritical Assault on Yale Law School, N.Y. Daily News (Apr. 4, 2019)

What is “Gender Ideology”?, Slate (Mar. 22, 2019)

Antonin Scalia’s Anti-Gay Words Are Poison, Los Angeles Times (Apr. 14, 2013)