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Aug 29, 20214 min read

Liberty, Civilization, and COVID Chutzpah

Max Stearns Among the tragedies of the last two years has been witnessing conservative elites succumb to a misconceived notion of...

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mstrn8

Dec 19, 20197 min read

Does “Impeach and Withhold” Withhold Justice?

Max Stearns We have witnessed a sad and rare event, yet one that, in my view, was compelling and justified. I believe this is so even if...

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mstrn8

Dec 15, 20195 min read

Is Just Impeachment Just?

Max Stearns “Justice, Justice Shall you Pursue.” Deuteronomy 16:18–21:9, Shoftim. Donald Trump will almost certainly be impeached this...

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Max Stearns

Jun 7, 20186 min read

The Textual Case Against Trump Pardoning Himself

And even tonight, with all of the heated back and forth, between my opponent and me at the debate last night, we have proven that we can...

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Max Stearns

Oct 14, 20176 min read

Finding Trump’s Core

Leading media outlets increasingly recognize that Donald Trump lacks what game theorists refer to as a core. See here and here. An empty...

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Max Stearns

Aug 21, 20176 min read

Against Censure

Following Donald Trump’s egregious mishandling of the Charlottesville white supremacy march and counter protest, Democratic...

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Max Stearns

Aug 7, 20173 min read

The Price of the Price of Trump

Since Trump's election, the DOW has had 50 record closings, and since his swearing in, it has had 33. Unemployment is at a 16 year low;...

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Max Stearns

Jul 22, 20173 min read

My Reflections on Trump's Republican Nomination: One Year Later

One year ago today, after watching Trump accept the Republican nomination, I posted an analysis on FB. I reproduce that post below, with...

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Max Stearns

Jul 19, 20173 min read

The Ironic Sincerity of Trump’s ACA Blame Game

The Republicans are abandoning efforts to repeal and replace, or even to repeal, hoping later to replace, Obamacare. Donald Trump claims...

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Max Stearns

Jul 7, 20175 min read

A Warm-Hearted Fourth of July Greeting

In a recent lecture at the Harvard Kennedy School, Arthur Brooks, President of the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), regaled the...

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Max Stearns

Jun 25, 20176 min read

Trump isn’t the Problem (with language alert)

The number 1 trending NYT article is a list of Trump’s lies since he was sworn in as President. See here. Before the election, the NYT...

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Max Stearns

Jun 22, 20172 min read

Yesterday's Donald J. Trump quote on loving all people, rich or poor

I posted this elsewhere, and so I thought I would also share it with this audience. I will not send an email for this post. "And I love...

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Max Stearns

Jun 11, 20177 min read

Two Strikes for Alan Dershowitz: Why Donald Trump is not Exempt from Investigation for Obstruction o

For the past several days, Alan Dershowitz has repeatedly maintained that President Trump cannot be found to have obstructed justice...

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Max Stearns

Jun 5, 20175 min read

Twitter Theory: From Covfefe to a Bloody Head

Although I have recently taken to Twitter, I’m not very good at it. As far as I can tell, my tweets are like trees falling in the forest...

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Max Stearns

May 17, 20171 min read

Tony Schwartz on What Drives Donald Trump

One way to test authenticity is when you read something that corresponds to deep, recurrent, and observable behavioral patterns that are...

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Max Stearns

May 10, 20173 min read

“You’re Fired!”: Some Post-Comey Clarification on Special versus Independent Counsel

In the aftermath of the somewhat shocking firing of FBI director James Comey—shocking due more to timing and style than substance—there...

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Max Stearns

Mar 20, 20173 min read

The President is an "It," not a "They"

Harvard Law School's Emeritus Professor Alan Dershowitz defended President Donald Trump's immigration ban against the ruling of the...

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Maxwell Stearns

I have been teaching law for twenty-nine years, and I am the Venable, Baetjer & Howard Professor of Law at the University of Maryland Carey School of Law. My core areas of interest are Constitutional Law and Law & Economics, which I view as critically interwoven. My most recent book is titled Law and Economics: Private and Public (West Academic 2018, with Todd Zywicki and Tom Miceli). In this poster, recently created by the Maryland Carey Law Thurgood Marshall Law Library, I am pictured with several wonderful books that I've recommended to friends, family, and students.