A Thread, Kind Of..:

JMM:

They’ve [the Supremes] basically tossed aside the actual constitutional interpretation thing in favor of just working through the legal code and deciding what they don’t like.

Reply:

How do law professors even teach constitutional law now?

Reply to reply:

That’s a good question. Decades of precedents being upturned every time you turn around. Their textbooks must get out of date or obsolete pretty often these days

My first thought was, the only textbook in ConLaw is the Constitution. But that’s because law school was almost 50 years ago, and I’m remembering my professor, who famously came to class with only a copy of that document in his back pocket.

There was a textbook, of course. More properly, a case book. It’ll be pretty much a history book soon, with most of the cases as relevant as Plessy and Dred Scott. Although I’d no longer be surprised if those two notorious cases didn’t become relevant again.