Andy Smarick

@smarick

Author of novel Community Day and newsletter Governing Right. Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute. Contributor, The Dispatch. Views my own.

Stevensville, MD

Pinned
Andy Smarick
@smarick
Apr 29
Get my new novel COMMUNITY DAY now. The tragic comedy about our time. amazon.com/Community-Day-…
Andy Smarick
@smarick
58m
"Bruen's approach improperly infers that past legislatures always reached the limit of their lawmaking power--that past legislatures regulated no further than they did because they knew any additional laws would be unconstitutional. That doesn’t parse."
How Judicial “History and Tradition” Went Wrong
From governingright.substack.com
Andy Smarick
@smarick
3h
I wrote a long-ish essay explaining why the Court's current "history and tradition" approach misunderstands the meaning of legislative inaction. The Court's conservatives must stop assuming legislatures always legislate to their constitutional limits.
How Judicial “History and Tradition” Went Wrong
From governingright.substack.com
Andy Smarick
@smarick
17h
My column for tomorrow's Governing Right (my weekly newsletter) will be my longest ever. It's about the US Supreme Court's wrong turn on "history and tradition." It has 20+ paragraph-length endnotes. Eesh. But this issue is central to governing and democratic decision-making.
1
Andy Smarick
@smarick
Aug 31
Very good essay about Salmon Chase, a remarkably accomplished man forever fated to be in Lincoln's shadow. nationalaffairs.com/publications/d… @NationalAffairs
The Man in Lincoln's Shadow
From nationalaffairs.com