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Journalist & author. My next book: EMANCIPATION WAR: THE FALL OF SLAVERY & THE COMING OF THE THIRTEENTH AMENDMENT, arriving June 2026.
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Trump, Scalia, and the Unitary Executive Original

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By Damon Root 
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Sometime in the next two or three weeks, the U.S. Supreme Court will decide a case about the president's authority to fire independent federal agency heads "at will," rather than "for cause," as federal law currently requires. If President Donald Trump wins the case, as many legal observers think he probably will, a 1988 dissenting opinion by a famous conservative justice is likely to play a key supporting role. You’re reading Injustice System from Damon Root and Reason.
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Gordon Wood's Enduring Defense of the American Revolution Original

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By Damon Root 
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In 1775, the great British essayist and lexicographer Samuel Johnson entered the political fray over the American Revolution with a scorching pamphlet that attacked the wayward colonials for their disloyalty to the crown and hypocritical talk of freedom. "How is it," Johnson demanded, "that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?" That sort of question still looms large over many contemporary debates about the American Revolution.
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A Death Row Case That Divided Kavanaugh and Gorsuch Original

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By Damon Root 
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On the surface, Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh share much in common. They are both judicial conservatives, both self-professed originalists, both former federal appellate court judges with respected records, and both were appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court by the same president. Yet there are certain legal issues that have brought out notable differences between them. The Supreme Court's recent 5–4 decision in Pitchford v. Cain offers a fascinating case in point.
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