Josh Blackman

Break the Supreme Court law clerk cartel

Empower the Supreme Court’s supermajority on substantive matters

Enhance the Supreme Court minority’s procedural powers

The justices should regularly sit on the lower courts

The chief justice should share much of his power

The court should hold oral argument outside of the capital

The justices should hold regular press conferences

Eliminate the summer recess

Symposium: The individual plaintiffs in California v. Texas suffer a greater Article III injury than did the individual plaintiffs in NFIB v. Sebelius

This article is part of a symposium previewing California v. Texas. Josh Blackman is a professor of law at South Texas College of Law Houston, an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute, and the author of two (and soon three) books on Obamacare’s legal controversies.

Invisible majorities: Counting to nine votes in per curiam cases

Josh Blackman is a constitutional law professor at the South Texas College of Law Houston and the co-author of “An Introduction to Constitutional Law: 100 Supreme Court Cases Everyone Should Know.” When the Supreme Court issues a signed opinion, each of the nine justices will indicate their position: affirm, reverse or recuse.

Symposium: It must be nice to have John Marshall on your side

Josh Blackman is a constitutional law professor at the South Texas College of Law Houston, and the co-author of “An Introduction to Constitutional Law: 100 Supreme Court Cases Everyone Should Know.” Two centuries after his death, Chief Justice John Marshall still presides over the Supreme Court.

Symposium: Don’t judge a brief by its cover: DACA is a good policy that Congress has not authorized

Josh Blackman is associate professor of law at South Texas College of Law Houston and an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute. Ilya Shapiro is director of the Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional Studies at the Cato Institute.