Contributors
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John Acton
Professor J. Joel Alicea
St. Robert Bellarmine Professor of Law; Director, The Center for the Constitution and the Catholic Intellectual Tradition, Catholic University of America.
Justice Samuel A. Alito, Jr.
Associate Justice, U.S. Supreme Court.
Francis Aul
Former law clerk to Judge Elizabeth L. Branch.
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Professor Stephanie Barclay
Professor, Georgetown University Law Center; Faculty Co-Director, Georgetown Center for the Constitution.
Professor Randy E. Barnett
Patrick Hotung Professor of Constitutional law, Georgetown University Law Center; Faculty Co-Director, Georgetown Center for the Constitution.
Hon. John F. Bash, III
Co-Chair, Quinn Emanuel’s National Appellate Practice; former U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Texas and Assistant Solicitor General.
Professor William Baude
Harry Kalven, Jr. Professor of Law, University of Chicago Law School; Faculty Director of the Constitutional Law Institute.
Judge Carlos T. Bea
Circuit Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
Professor David E. Bernstein
University Professor of Law, Antonin Scalia Law School; Executive Director, Liberty & Law Center.
Judge Stephanos Bibas
Circuit Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
Joseph Bishop-Henchman
Executive Vice President, National Taxpayers Union Foundation; Adjunct Scholar, Cato Institute.
Professor Josh Blackman
Centennial Chair of Constitutional Law, South Texas College of Law Houston; President, The Harlan Institute.
Michael D. Bopp
Partner, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP; Chair, Congressional Investigations Subgroup; Co-Chair, Public Policy Practice Group.
Professor Gerard V. Bradley
Professor Emeritus, Notre Dame Law School; Co-Director, James Wilson Institute.
Judge Elizabeth L. Branch
Circuit Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.
Judge Andrew Brasher
Circuit Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.
Judge Michael B. Brennan
Circuit Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.
Roy E. “Reb” Brownell II
Author about separation of powers; former Deputy Chief of Staff and Counsel to U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell.
Judge Patrick J. Bumatay
Circuit Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
James Burnham
President, Vallecito Capital, LLC; Principal at King Street Legal, PLLC; Former General Counsel, U.S. DOGE Service.
Judge John K. Bush
Circuit Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.
Judge Jay S. Bybee
Circuit Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
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GianCarlo Canaparo
Senior Legal Fellow, Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies, The Heritage Foundation.
Louis J. Capozzi III
Solicitor General of Missouri; Lecturer in Law, University of Pennsylvania Carey School of Law.
Judge Joel M. Carson III
Circuit Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.
David W. Casazza
Senior Associate, Appellate and Constitutional Law Practice Group, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP.
Lee A. Casey
Partner, BakerHostetler; former Office of Legal Policy (1986-90) and Office of Legal Counsel (1992-93).
Professor Paul G. Cassell
Distinguished Professor, University of Utah College of Law; former District Court Judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Utah.
Professor Nathan S. Chapman
Associate Dean for Faculty Development & A. Gust Cleveland Distinguished Chair of Law, University of Georgia School of Law.
Jacob B. Chefitz
Associate, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP; former intern to Judge Matthew H. Solomson.
Professor Eric A. Chiappinelli
Frank McDonald Endowed Professor of Law Emeritus, Texas Tech School of Law.
Hon. Paul D. Clement
Partner, Clement & Murphy PLLC; Adjunst Professor, Georgetown University Law Center; Forty-Third Solicitor General of the United States.
Hon. Charles J. Cooper
Chairman and Founding Partner, Cooper & Kirk, PLLC; former Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal Counsel.
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Professor Tabatha Abu El-Haj
Profesor of Law, Drexel University, Kline School of Law.
Judge Jennifer Walker Elrod
Chief Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fitfth Circuit.
Hon. Steven A. Engel
Partner, Dechert LLP; former Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal Counsel.
Judge Kurt D. Engelhardt
Circuit Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
Professor Richard A. Epstein
Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Law, NYU School of Law; Director, Classical Liberal Institute.
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Professor John D. Feerick
Professor and former Dean, Fordham University School of Law; Helped craft and frame the Twenty-Fifth Amendment.
Jack Fitzhenry
Legal Fellow, Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies.
Ethan Foster
Former law clerk to Judge Lawrence VanDyke.
Hon. Noel J. Francisco
Partner, Jones Day; Forty-Seventh Solicitor General of the United States.
C. Towner French
Managing Director, Cozen O’Connor Public Strategies.
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Todd F. Gaziano
President, Center for Individual Rights; former Office of Legal Counsel and U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.
Professor Michael J. Gerhardt
Burton Craige Distinguished Professor of Jurisprudence, University of North Carolina School of Law.
Greta Gieseke
Former law clerk to Judge Kurt D. Engelhardt.
Patrick J. Glen
Adjunct Porfessor, Georgetown University Law Center; Senior Litigation Counsel, Office of Immigration Litigation, U.S. Department of Justice.
Martin B. Gold
Partner, Capitol Counsel, LLC; former Floor Adviser and Counsel, Office of Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist.
Judge Britt C. Grant
Circuit Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.
Professor Christopher R. Green
Associate Director, Salmon P. Chase Center for Civics, Culture, and Society; Professor of Law, Moritz College of Law, The Ohio State University.
Professor Andy Grewal
Orville L. and Ermina D. Dykstra Professor in Income Tax Law, University of Iowa College of Law.
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Jenna Hageman
Program Assistant, Institute for Constitutional Government, The Heritage Foundation.
Stephen J. Hammer
Associate, Appellate and Constitutional Law Practic Group, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP.
Chase T. Harrington
Associate, Torridon Law PLLC; former Deputy Associate Counsel to the President.
Sarah M. Harris
Ian Brinton Hatch
Former law clerk to Judge Kurt D. Engelhardt.
James A. Heilpern
Research Fellow, Georgetown Center for the Constitution; President, Judicial Education Institute.
Tara Helfman
Partner, Torridon Law PLLC; former Associate Counsel and Special Assistant to President Trump; former Tenured Associate Porfessor, Syracuse University College of Law.
Professor Arthur D. Hellman
Professor of Law (Emeritus), University of Pittsburgh School of Law.
Professor Andrew Hessick
Judge John J. Parker Distinguished Professor of Law, University of North Carolina School of Law.
Allyson N. Ho
Co-Chair, Appellate and Constitutional Law Practice Group, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP.
Judge James C. Ho
Circuit Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
Judge Ryan T. Holte
Judge, U.S. Court of Federal Claims; Jurist-in-Residence Professor of Law, University of Akron School of Law.
Thomas G. Hungar
Partner, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP; former General Counsel, U.S. House of Representatives (2016-19).
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Professor Brian C. Kalt
Professor of Law and the Harold Norris Faculty Scholar, Michigan State University College of Law.
Professor John P. Kaminski
Director, Center for the Study of the American Constitution, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Co-Editor of The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution (1970-present).
Judge Gregory G. Katsas
Circuit Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.
Scott A. Keller
Partner, Lehotsky Keller Cohn LLP; former Chief Counsel, Senator Ted Cruz.
Professor Orin S. Kerr
Professor, Stanford Law School.
Elizabeth A. Kiernan
Senior Associate, Appellate and Constitutional Law Practice Group, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP.
Professor Eugene Kontorovich
Professor of Law, Antonin Scalia Law School; Senior Research Fellow, Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom, The Heritage Foundation.
Professor Julian G. Ku
Maurice A. Deane Distinguished Professor in Constitutional Law, Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University.
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Hon. Christopher T. Landau
United States Deputy Secretary of State; former United States Ambassador to Mexico.
Paul J. Larkin
Rumpel Senior Legal Research Fellow, Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies, The Heritage Foundation.
Judge Joan L. Larsen
Circuit Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.
Professor Kurt T. Lash
E. Claiborne Robins Distinguished Professor of Law, University of Richmond School of Law.
Professor Gary S. Lawson
Levin, Mabie & Levin Professor of Law, University of Florida Levin College of Law.
Professor Thomas H. Lee
Feitner Family Professor of International Law, Fordham University School of Law; Special Counsel, Hughes, Hubbard & Reed LLP.
Judge Kenneth K. Lee
Circuit Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
Professor Robert Leider
Professor, Antonin Scalia Law School.
Sarah Leitner
Associate, Supreme Court and Appellate Litigation Group, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP.
Professor Renée Lettow Lerner
Legal historian and the Donald Phillip Rothschild Research Professor of Law, George Washington University Law School.
Seth J. Lucas
Former Senior Research Associate, Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies, The Heritage Foundation.
Professor Nelson Lund
Distinguished University Professor, Antonin Scalia Law School.
Robert Luther III
Distinguished Professor of Law, Antonin Scalia Law School; former Associate Counsel to the President; former Counsel on the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee.
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J. Andrew Mackenzie
Former law clerk to Judge Jennifer Walker Elrod.
Judge Gregory E. Maggs
Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces; Professorial Lecture in Law, George Washington University Law School.
Professor Gerard N. Magliocca
Distinguished Professor, Samuel R. Rosen Professor, Indiana University Robert H. McKinney Law School.
John G. Malcolm
Vice President, Institute for Constitutional Government, The Heritage Foundation; Director of Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies; Ed and Sherry Gilbertson Senior Legal Fellow.
Professor Joyce Lee Malcolm
Professor Emerita of Law, Antonin Scalia Law School.
Professor Earl M. Maltz
Distinguished Professor, Rutgers Law School (Camden).
Jeremy Evan Maltz
Partner, Lehotsky Keller Cohn LLP.
Brennan Mancil
Former law clerk to Judge John K. Bush.
Professor Jennifer Mascott
Associate Professor of Law and the Founder of the Separation of Powers Institute, Catholic University of America.
Judge Paul B. Matey
Circuit Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
Austin Mayron
Former law clerk to Judge Elizabeth L. Branch.
Michael W. McConnell
Professor, Stanford Law School; former Circuit Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.
Trent McCotter
Partner, Boyden Gray PLLC; Director of the Separation of Powers Clinic, The Catholic Univeristy of America.
Professor John O. McGinnis
George C. Dix Professor in Constitutional Law, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law; former Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal Counsel.
Meaghen McManus
Program Assistant, Institute for Constitutional Government, The Heritage Foundaion.
Taylor Meehan
Partner, Consovoy McCarthy PLLC; Lecturer, University of Chicago Law School.
Hon. Edwin Meese III
Ronald Reagan Distinguished Fellow Emeritus, The Heritage Foundation; Seventy-Fifth Attorney General of the United States.
Judge Steven J. Menashi
Circuit Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
Professor Michael T. Morley
Election Law Professor and Faculty Director of the Election Law Center, Florida State University College of Law.
Professor Andrew P. Morriss
Professor, The Bush School of Government & Public Service and the School of Law, Texas A&M University.
Professor Adam Mossoff
Professor of Law, Antonin Scalia Law School; Visiting Intellectual Property Fellow, The Heritage Foundation.
Professor Derek T. Muller
Professor of Law, Notre Dame Law School.
Professor Vincent Phillip Muñoz
Tocqueville Professor of Political Science and Concurrent Associate Professor of Law, The University of Notre Dame.
Erin E. Murphy
Partner, Clement & Murphy, PLLC; Adjunst Professor, Georgetown University Law Center; former Bristow Fellow, Office of Solicitor General.
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Eli Nachmany
Associate, Covington & Burling LLP; former law clerk to Judge Steven J. Menashi.
Professor Robert G. Natelson
Professor of Law (ret.), The University of Montana Blewett School of Law; Senior Fellow in Constitutional Jurisprudence, Independence Institute.
Judge Kevin C. Newsom
Circuit Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.
Andy Nolan
Career clerk to Judge Chad A. Readler.
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Mitchell K. Pallaki
Former law clerk to Judge Carlos T. Bea.
Jameson Payne
Former Research Associate, Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies, The Heritage Foundation.
Professor James C. Phillips
Director and Associate Professor, Constitutional Government Initiative, Wheatley Institute, Brigham Young University.
Alexander Phipps
Former Resesarch Associate, Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies, The Heritage Foundation.
William Poole
Senior Editor, Policy Publications, The Heritage Foundation.
Judge William H. Pryor Jr.
Chief Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.
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Michael D. Ramsey
Warren Distinguished Professor of Law, University of San Diego School of Law.
Judge Neomi J. Rao
Circuit Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.
Michael D. Rappaport
Hugh and Hazel Darling Foundation Professor of Law, University of San Diego Law School; Director, Center for the Study of Consitutional Originalism.
Judge Chad A. Readler
Circuit Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.
Professor Bradley Rebeiro
Associate professor, Brigham Young University’s J. Reuben Clark Law School.
Judge Julius N. Richardson
Circuit Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.
Judge Allison Jones Rushing
Circuit Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.
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Professor Stephen E. Sachs
Antonin Scalia Professor of Law, Harvard Law School.
Timothy Sandefur
Vice President for Legal Affairs, Goldwater Institute’s Scharf-Norton Center for Constitutional Litigation; Adjunct Scholar, Cato Institute.
Professor Ryan W. Scott
Louis F. Niezer Faculty Fellow, Indiana University Bloomington Maurer School of Law.
Jefferson F. Serfass
Former law clerk to Judge Joel M. Carson III.
Tyler Shannon
Former law clerk to Judge Patrick R. Wyrick.
Erica Shuler
Former law clerk to Judge John K. Bush.
Athanasius Sirilla
Former law clerk to Judge Matthew H. Solomson.
Andrew W. Smith
Former law clerk to Judge Gregory G. Katsas.
Professor Bradley A. Smith
Blackmore/Nault Professor, Capital University Law School; former Chairman, Federal Election Commission.
Zack Smith
Senior Legal Fellow and Manager, Supreme Court and Appellate Advocacy Program, Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies, The Heritage Foundation.
Judge Matthew H. Solomson
Chief Judge, U.S. Court of Federal Claims.
Professor Andrew C. Spiropoulos
Professor, Oklahoma City University School of Law.
Professor Chad Squitieri
Assistant Professor of Law, Catholic University of America; Managing Director, Center for the Constitution and the Catholic Intellectual Tradition; Director, Separation of Powers Institute.
Adam I. Steene
Of Counsel, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP.
Professor Matthew Steilen
Professor, University at Buffalo School of Law.
Adam Steinhilber
Former law clerk to Judge Timothy Tymkovich.
Michael Stern
Former Senior Counsel, U.S. House of Representatives.
Professor John F. Stinneford
Edward Rood Eminent Scholar Chair, University of Florida Levin College of Law.
Lee J. Strang
Executive Director, Salmon P. Chase Center for Civics, Culture, and Society; Professor of Law, Moritz College of Law, The Ohio State University.
Judge David R. Stras
Circuit Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit.
William J. Strench
Former law clerk to Chief Judge William H. Pryor Jr.
Nathaniel C. Sutton
Former law clerk to Chief Judge William H. Pryor Jr.
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Paul B. Taylor
Visiting Fellow, National Security Institute, Antonin Scalia Law School; former Counsel and Chief Counsel, House Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties.
Jacob J. Thackston
Former law clerk to Judge Kurt D. Engelhardt.
Judge Amul R. Thapar
Circuit Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.
Professor Seth Barrett Tillman
Associate Professor, Maynooth University School of Law and Criminology, Ireland; Scoil an Dlí agus na
Coireolaíochta Ollscoil Mhá Nuad.
Kate Comerford Todd
Partner, Torridon Law PLLC; former Deputy Counsel to President Donald J. Trump, Associate Counsel to President George W. Bush.
Jack Tucker
Former law clerk to Judges Andrews Brasher and William H. Pryor Jr.
Judge Timothy M. Tymkovich
Circuit Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.
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Judge Lawrence VanDyke
Circuit Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
Seanhenry VanDyke
Former law clerk to Judge Gregory G. Katsas.
Professor Eugene Volokh
Thomas M. Siebel Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution; Gary T. Schwartz Distinguished Professor of Law Emeritus, UCLA School of Law.
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Jeffrey B. Wall
Partner and Head of Supreme Court and Appellate Practice, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP; former Principal Deputy Solicitor General.
Jacob R. Weaver
LTJG, U.S. Navy; former law clerk to Judges Edith H. Jones and Charles R. Eskridge.
Dexter Webster
Former judicial intern to Judge Kurt D. Engelhardt.
Professor John W. Welch
Robert K. Thomas Professor of Law (retired), Brigham Young University’s J. Reuben Clark Law School.
Professor Ryan Williams
Associate Professor, Boston College Law School.
Judge Patrick R. Wyrick
District Court Judge, U.S. District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma.
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Katherine C. Yarger
Partner, Lehotsky Keller Cohn LLP.
Professor John C. Yoo
Emanuel S. Heller Professor of Law, Berkeley Law; Senior Research Fellow, Civitas Institute, University of Texas at Austin.
Professor Ernest A. Young
Alston & Bird Distinguished Professor, Duke University School of Law.
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Michael A. Zarian
Deputy Solicitor General of Idaho.
Professor Rebecca E. Zietlow
Dean, Distinguished University Professor, and Charles W. Fornoff Professor of Law and Values, University of Toledo College of Law.
Professor Evan C. Zoldan
Professor of Law and Director of the Legal Institute of the Great Lakes, University of Toledo College of Law.
Professor Todd J. Zywicki
George Mason University Foundation Professor of Law, Antonin Scalia Law School.
