Conservatism

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Conservative Minimalism and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Jonathan H. Adler
Jonathan H. Adler is the Johan Verheij Memorial Professor of Law and the Director of the Coleman P. Burke Center for Environmental Law at Case Western Reserve University School of Law.

Chief Justice John Roberts mystified and frustrated court watchers with his opinions in the closing weeks of the Supreme Court’s October 2019 term.

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Non-Judicial Precedent and the Removal Power
David A. Strauss
David A. Strauss is the Gerald Ratner Distinguished Service Professor of Law at the University of Chicago.

The majority and dissenting opinions in Seila Law LLC v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau disagreed about the interpretation of previous Supreme Court decisions that considered the president’s power to remove executive branch officials. But in many ways the more important disagreement was about historical practice.