Taking Clarence Thomas and the Conservative (Legal) Movement (Less) Seriously
Hillsdale College’s November newsletter, Imprimis, featured Justice Clarence Thomas’s recent address at the conservative Michigan
Calvin TerBeek
Hello. My name is Calvin TerBeek and I’m a political science PhD candidate at the University of Chicago. My work is focused on party politics and judicial politics from the Progressive Era to Trump. More specifically, I’m interested in how party politics helped create the constitutional politics of the Democratic Party's legal liberalism and the GOP's constitutional originalism. Before coming to Hyde Park, I clerked for two judges and practiced commercial litigation for large and boutique firms. For more, please see my c.v. -- http://calvinterbeek.com/
A Symposium on Corey Robin’s The Enigma of Clarence Thomas
Over the course of this month, we are bringing together a group of scholars and
The GOP’s Flip Side of the Same Coin: Party Politics, Constitutional Politics, and the Administrative State
Easily missed in the tumult last week was the Supreme Court’s decision to review the
The Georgia Heartbeat Bill and Unintended Consequences
On Friday, Georgia passed a “heartbeat bill” that bans abortion after medical professionals can detect
The Untold Story of How Conservatives Embraced the Bill of Rights and Incorporation
The new conservative majority of the Supreme Court has begun the second phase of its
Gun Rights as Glue? The Contested (and Uncontested) Legal Policy Terrain of the Conservative Legal Movement
On Tuesday, the Supreme Court reached down to the Second Circuit and agreed to hear
The Racialized Fabric of Intellectual Movement Conservatism: Part I
It should be part of our conventional scholarly wisdom that racial conservatism is woven into
The Federalist Society, the Fever Swamps, and Conservatism
The Federalist Society is an important institution in American politics. When talking about judicial selection
Indoctrination Camp or Institution Building? Heritage and the Law Clerk Training Academy
One should not be surprised to learn, as Adam Liptak reported yesterday, that the Heritage
Movement Conservatism and Pseudo-Conservatism
The emergence and development of movement conservatism is perhaps the most important phenomenon in American