Dan Chasan

Scalia’s Revenge: A Lone Dissent Haunts the Court

As the Court ponders (or pretends to ponder) Slaughter, is the late Justice Antonin Scalia getting a kind of posthumous revenge? His dissents seem to be all over this case.

The Year in Verse

Don’t greet the New Year with a curse; So things aren’t great -- they could be worse.

Dam it All: The Intractable Knots in the Snake River

Thanks to Donald Trump's intervention, we have here a bi-partisan template for Trump’s approach to the legal system: break the law, lose your case, get reamed out by a judge, then carry on with business as usual.

Early Halloween: Scary Like ICE

How about dressing up in an ICE outfit?  You’ve got the mask, so no one can see who you are -- and you can scare people, too. 

Birthright Citizenship: Can Trump Really Reinterpret the Constitution?

Donald Trump is trying to re-interpret the 14th Amendment.  It says  â€“ right up front in Section 1—that “ll persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject...

How to Save Orcas? A Report Says “Old Fish”

A new report features fixes that have largely been off-limits for discussion by government groups reluctant to enrage commercial fishers, recreational fishers, or tribes.

Trump’s Capricious Tariff Tantrums are Chaotic. But They’re Also Illegal (Probably)

The uncertainty about tariffs will continue indefinitely. The whole episode is a farce.

Saw, Baby, Saw? Trump’s Emergency Threat to our Forests

Pruning regulation and felling trees on the scale that the Trump orders contemplate won’t be a slam-dunk. The path to more logging runs through a tangled thicket of laws and regulations.

Threepeat: Donald Trump for President? Again?

Barely one month into his second term, Donald Trump is already signaling that he may run for a third term, even though the US Constitution forbids it.

Project 2025’s Scary Plans for Hanford’s Nuclear Waste

My friend Kenneth Young, a University of Washington physicist now deceased, invited me in 1973 to join him for lunch at a U District cafe with the Nobel Prize-winning...

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