David F. Forte

David F. Forte is a professor of law at the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law in Cleveland, Ohio and an acting municipal judge in Lakewood, Ohio.

Noble Sinners

The founders fell out among themselves, but would not hazard the Constitution in violent conflict.

Without Marshall, the judiciary would have been a withered branch.

A review of Reading Law: The Interpretation of Legal Texts, by Antonin Scalia and Bryan A. Garner

A review of Unrestrained: Judicial Excess and the Mind of the American Lawyer, by Robert F. Nagel and How Judges Think, by Richard A. Posner

Re-imagining the American founding to advance an ideological and political agenda.

Why Chief Justice John Marshall was not a judicial activist.