Popular Essays

• The Political Violence Spilling Out of Red States, American Prospect (Oct. 10, 2024) (with David Noll).
• Jan. 6 Was Just a Start. Vigilantes Are Expanding, and Legalizing, Their Attacks, Los Angeles Times (Oct. 8, 2024) (with David Noll).
• The Local Version of Project 2025 Is Already Causing Devastation, Slate, Aug. 26, 2024 (with David Noll).
• Solve the Insulin Pricing Problem by Getting Government into the Business, Los Angeles Times, Aug. 8, 2022.
• A Deep State of His Own, Foreign Affairs, Jun. 2024.
• The Supreme Court’s Liberals Should Follow Justice Rehnquist’s Lead—dissent, dissent, dissent, Los Angeles Times, Jul. 9, 2018.
• Law Schools Have a Supreme Court Problem, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Jul. 18, 2022 (with Aziz Huq)
• If the Supreme Court Lets Other States Copy Texas’s Abortion Law, It’ll Be Chaos, The Washington Post, Jan. 10, 2022
• Why Abortion Access is a Workplace Issue, Time, Dec. 7, 2021 (with S. Mitra Kalita)
• We are Becoming a Nation of Vigilantes, New York Times, Sept. 4, 2021 (with David Noll)
• The military deployment to the border is a shameless, and dangerous, stunt, The Washington Post, Nov. 2, 2018 (with Jeffrey H. Smith)
• Tech Giants at the Crossroads: A Modest Proposal, Hoover Institution (Series Paper No. 1809) (Jul. 30, 2018).
• Trump’s Quiet Attack on the Regulatory State is Another Part of His Broader Class War, Slate, Dec. 22, 2017 (with Rajesh Nayak).
• How the American Government Slowly Became a Business, The Guardian, Dec. 18, 2017.
• The War on Federal Employees, The American Prospect, Dec. 11, 2017.
• Should America Also Have a Private Spying Agency?, Newsweek, Dec. 11, 2017.
• Erik Prince’s Proposal to Privatize Intelligence Gathering, Just Security, Dec. 8, 2017.
• How Trump is Dismantling a Pillar of the Administrative State, The Guardian, Nov. 7, 2017.
• Trump and the “Deep State:” The Government Strikes Back, Foreign Affairs, Aug. 14, 2017.
• Jared Kushner and Steve Bannon want to re-privatize the military. That would be a big mistake, Los Angeles Times, July 20, 2017.
• What to do in case of a constitutional crisis, CNN, Feb. 2, 2017.
• The folly of Trump’s palace guard, CNN, Dec. 30, 2016.
• Can Trump’s Cabinet makeover work?, CNN, Dec. 17, 2016.
• Businesslike Government, Presidential Power, and the Erosion of the Civil Service, Just Security, Nov. 22, 2016.
• Administrative Checks and Balances in the Trump Administration, Just Security, Nov. 11, 2016.
• The Founders anticipated Trump. We can handle this., Los Angeles Times, Nov. 11, 2016.

Take Care Blog Contributions

• Multidimensional Separation(s) of Powers and Questions of Democratic Erosion, Take Care Blog, Oct. 29, 2018.
• Advancing a Left-Liberal Jurisprudence, Take Care Blog, Oct. 16, 2018.
• Concluding Thoughts on Constitutional Coup, Jan. 18, 2018.
• You’re So Vain… You Probably Think This Book Is About You, Jan. 8, 2018.
• Why Does DHS Need a Corporate Headhunter?, Dec. 18, 2018.
• Uphold the Oath, Sept. 9, 2017.
• Congress’s Personnel Power, Aug. 22, 2017.
• Re-privatizing the Military Would Be a Big Mistake, Jul. 24, 2017.
• First Tragedy, Now Farce, May 15, 2017 (with Frederic Bloom).
• Making Bureaucracy Great Again: Trump’s New Office of Innovation, March 27, 2017.
• American Cognitive Dissonance, March 17, 2017.

Notice & Comment Blog Contributions

• Administrative Law Scholars’ Wild Ride, Yale Journal on Regulation (Notice and Comment), Jul. 2, 2021.
• Afterword to the Constitutional Coup Symposium (Part II), Notice & Comment, Apr. 4, 2018.
• Afterword to the Constitutional Coup Symposium (Part I), Notice & Comment, Apr. 2, 2018.

Select Expert References (2015–2017)

• David Dayen, Trump Assigned Himself an Awful Lot of Homework That Isn’t Getting Done, The Intercept, June 12, 2017.
• Jeff Horseman, Here’s what Congress should ask fired FBI director James Comey about the Russia probe, The Press Enterprise, May 27, 2017.
• Sonam Sheth, McMaster: ‘I would not be concerned about a Russia backchannel’ between Trump and the Kremlin, Business Insider, May 27, 2017.
• Sonam Sheth, The White House has a credibility crisis — and it’s started to engulf one of its most independent voices, Business Insider, May 27, 2017.
• Kyle Jaeger, How Using the Nuclear Option Could Backfire, ATTN, Apr. 3, 2017.
• Sonam Sheth, Ivanka Trump’s new White House position could be an ethical minefield, Business Insider, Mar. 25, 2017.
• Sonam Sheth, Ivanka Trump is getting her own office in the West Wing, raising ethical concerns, Business Insider, Mar. 20, 2017.
• Nicole Lee, Trump’s Nordstrom tweet isn’t illegal, but it’s still a problem, Engadget, Feb. 8, 2017.
• Sudhin Thanawala & Eric Tucker, Here’s What to Expect When the Next Travel Ban Is Issued, Associated Press, Feb. 25, 2017.
• Danielle DeCourcey, Donald Trump Just Used Two Words That Could Ruin His Immigration Plan, ATTN, Feb. 23, 2017.
• David Choi, Here are all the controversial things the Trump administration has done so far, Business Insider UK, Feb. 19, 2017.
• Susan Milligan, Revenge of the Government Nerds: Trump’s early turmoil showcases importance of career feds, U.S. News & World Report, Feb. 14, 2017.
• Susan Milligan, Out of Balance?: Congress, the White House and the judiciary are locked in an unusually tense standoff, U.S. News & World Report, Feb. 10, 2017.
• Manuel Madrid, Trump’s Private Security Force: an Operational and Legal Swamp, The American Prospect, Jan. 20, 2017.
• Lizzie O’Leary, New plans for Trump trust raise new questions about conflicts of interest, Marketplace (NPR), Jan. 13, 2017.
• Sasha Volokh, The dangers of Trump’s private guard, Washington Post, The Volokh Conspiracy blog, Jan. 2, 2017.
• Matt Richtel, A Police Gadget Tracks Phones? Shhh! It’s Secret, N.Y. Times, Mar. 15, 2015.