By AAROL Member Neil Weinstein. Courts in the U.S. are losing their luster. The approval rating of our courts, especially the Supreme Court, is at an all-time low — in part because of the Supreme Court’s seemingly reflexive acceptance of the Trump Administration’s applications, decided almost always through its “emergency” or “shadow” docket via orders […]
By AAROL Member Homer E. Moyer, Jr. Next year we will celebrate the 250th anniversary of our becoming an independent nation, and in just a few days (September 17th) we will commemorate a less celebrated, but no less important anniversary—”Constitution Day,” the day delegates gathered in Independence Hall in Philadelphia signed our Constitution. Both milestones […]
By AAROL Member Malcolm Russell-Einhorn. Against the backdrop of America’s Constitution Day on September 17, many pundits and ordinary citizens have asked whether the country is approaching, or in, a constitutional crisis. After all, in recent months, the nation has witnessed the Trump Administration flooding the zone of federal governance with scores of legally dubious, […]
Guest Post by Alain G. Norman, MSc, JD September 17th is Constitution Day, a day to remember and celebrate the remarkable American Constitution and Bill of Rights, which have, for some 250 years, served as a touchstone for those “yearning to breathe free,” as the poet put it, both in the United States and around […]
Guest Post by Jim Moliterno By 2004, when I was invited to participate in my first justice-building project abroad, I had already spent 22 years teaching and writing about lawyer and judicial ethics issues in the US. I was already a tenured, full professor at the College of William & Mary Law School. I thought […]
Guest post by Howard Fenton In 1996 I traveled to the newly independent Ukraine to talk with Ukrainian judges about American administrative law. The Ohio Supreme Court had contracted with USAID to provide training to the judges across the full range of American law utilizing Ohio judges and law professors. I volunteered to lecture on […]
Although USAID has been almost entirely dismantled, disinformation concerning the effectiveness and importance of its mission continues to be disseminated, as epitomized by the July 31, 2025 interview that Ross Douthat of the New York Times conducted with Jeremy Lewin who now oversees all surviving USG international assistance. According to Mr. Lewin, USAID was an […]
