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John O. McGinnis
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Northwestern law professor interested in constitutional theory, administrative law, and technology.

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John Oldham McGinnis is an American legal scholar at the Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law and author of over 90 academic and popular articles and essays. His popular writings have been published in The Wall Street Journal, National Review, and Policy Review. .. more

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John O. McGinnis @joldmcginn.bsky.social · Mar 13
Because we have a consensus against entitlement reform and increasing taxes on any but the top 2 percent, the Trump administration is taking the only way out of our fiscal crisis-- creating a program of deregulation to turn liberty into an engine of growth. lawliberty.org/strategic-de...
Strategic Deregulation to Spur Economic Growth – John O. McGinnis
America needs economic growth to get out of our debt crisis—and a truly deregulatory agenda can help.
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John O. McGinnis @joldmcginn.bsky.social · Feb 28
As an accreditor, the ABA contributes to the high cost of legal education, stifles innovation, and often encourages left-liberal indoctrination in the profession. The Trump administration should tell the ABA: "You're fired!"
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Deregulating Legal Education – John O. McGinnis
As with many sectors of American life, legal education is paralyzed by overregulation. But a few simple changes could fix that.
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John O. McGinnis @joldmcginn.bsky.social · Feb 21
Regulation by enforcement stifles innovation, chokes economic growth, and undermines the rule of law. But the Administrative Procedure Act gives regulated parties a way to avoid it through declaratory orders, as I explain here. lawliberty.org/preventing-r....
Preventing Regulation by Enforcement – John O. McGinnis & Leo J. Soh
Regulators should make rules before they set out to enforce them.
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John O. McGinnis @joldmcginn.bsky.social · Feb 11
Frederick Jackson Turner noted that the frontier's closure posed a challenge to America’s self-conception. Musk’s work reopens the frontier—not by looking to westward, but by gazing outward to the stars and inward to the human mind.https://www.city-journal.org/article/elon-musk-doge-legal-democracy
Elon Musk’s Government Activities Are Legal
DOGE’s mandate is built on sound law and the will of the voters.
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John O. McGinnis @joldmcginn.bsky.social · Jan 23
Gienapp's Against Originalism, fails to persuade because it neglects the Constitution—its text, structure, and self-referential nature. He confuses objections to originalism as a method with objections to certain originalist readings. lawliberty.org/book-review/...
The Constitution Neglected – John O. McGinnis & Mike Rappaport
Jonathan Gienapp seeks to use the historian’s tools to challenge originalism, but in the process he neglects the text of the Constitution itself.
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John O. McGinnis @joldmcginn.bsky.social · Nov 25
The debate over disinformation today is ultimately between two philosophies of man: one sees him as an agent of his own freedom, the other as an object for manipulation by malign private actors or a beneficent state lawliberty.org/the-politica...
The Political Theories Underlying the Disinformation Debate – John O. McGinnis
Contemporary debates about “disinformation” point back to a fundamental tension in Enlightenment philosophy.
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