Dan Chasan

Does SCOTUS have Second Thoughts about Bulking Up Executive Power?

“I believe Trump’s recent actions mark the culmination of the unitary executive theory, which is perhaps the most contentious and consequential constitutional theory of the past several decades.”

Echoes of Anthony Bourdain: Provincetown Kitchens

There were the lobsters crawling slowly around a tank when my wife and I took our 9- and 10-year-old kids to a Provincetown restaurant when we were on an East Coast trip. 

Your Ballot’s (going to be) in the Mail

The Supreme Court has rejected the Trump Administration’s appeal of a District Court injunction that blocked the U.S Postal Service from carrying out or enforcing Donald Trump’s March Executive Order that would have severely restricted the used of mailed ballots.

The Senator Packwood Lesson

Yes, Graham Platner may have been able to beat long-time Republican Senator Susan Collins, but even before allegations of sexual assault, there were the allegations of mistreating girlfriends, the...

Taxes and Millionaires: A State Constitution and a Popular Petition

Constitutionality aside, the best thing about the new tax may be its name. “Millionaires’ tax” is great branding. “Millionaires” don’t need the money.  They probably get their riches by exploiting workers.  And they’re somebody else.  They’re other.

Our New “Rosy” Nuclear Future?

Before we go all in on this new one, it would be nice if the desirability of building new nukes in a hurry were thoughtfully discussed.  Good luck with that.  There’s some serous FOMO involved.

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. 

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