Supreme Court Review: Tariffs, Birthright Citizenship, Presidential Power, and More

On Thursday, October 8, at 4:30pm in Rosenfeld Hall GR 109 (109 Grove Street), the Buckley Institute will host our annual Supreme Court Review, examining some of the most significant Supreme Court decisions of the spring 2026 term. For this year's panel, the Buckley Institute is pleased to host AEI's Adam White and SCOTUSblog's Amy Howe. These two legal experts will offer an in-depth discussion of the Supreme Court's most recent term, including decisions on tariffs, birthright citizenship, presidential power, transgender athletes, and more. Together, they will explore the legal reasoning behind these decisions and their implications for American law and public life.

Adam J. White is the Laurence H. Silberman Chair in Constitutional Governance and a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI). He also codirects the C. Boyden Gray Center for the Study of the Administrative State at the Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University. He has written extensively on constitutional law and the Supreme Court for publications including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and National Affairs, and has testified before Congress on numerous occasions. Mr. White served on the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States in 2021 and has held leadership roles with the Administrative Conference of the United States and the American Bar Association's Administrative Law Section. He earned his JD from Harvard Law School and his BBA from the University of Iowa.

Amy Howe is the co-founder of SCOTUSblog and its primary reporter. She was part of the blog that won a Peabody Award in 2013, as well as a National Press Club Journalism Award for Breaking News. Before turning to full-time journalism, she served as counsel in over two dozen merits cases at the Supreme Court and argued two cases there. From 2004 until 2011, she co-taught Supreme Court litigation at Stanford Law School; from 2005 until 2013, she co-taught a similar class at Harvard Law School. She has also served as an adjunct professor at American University's Washington College of Law and Vanderbilt Law School. She is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and holds a master's degree in Arab Studies and a law degree from Georgetown University.