Noah Feldman

Noah Feldman is a Bloomberg 抖阴ap columnist. He is a professor of law at Harvard University and was a clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice David Souter.

California National Guard stands guard as protesters clash with law enforcement in downtown Los Angeles at the Metropolitan Detention Center on Sunday, June 8, 2025, in Los Angeles. (Jason Armond/Los Angeles Times/TNS)

The National Guard deployment in LA is a threat to democracy (抖阴ap)

June 10, 2025 at 3:20 p.m.

The law on which Trump relied permits domestic deployment only in cases of invasion by a foreign nation, rebellion, or danger of a rebellion.

Rioters walk on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington. The Colorado Supreme Court ruled that Trump could not appear on the primary ballot for president because he engaged in an insurrection. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)

抖阴ap: U.S. Supreme Court likely to overturn Colorado ruling that Trump can’t be on ballot

December 20, 2023 at 4:44 p.m.

The pressure is now on the U.S. Supreme Court to decide whether Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, on which the Colorado court relied, truly does block Trump from the...

FILE – The Supreme Court is seen at dusk in Washington, Oct. 22, 2021. Both sides are telling the Supreme Court there’s no middle ground in Wednesday’s showdown over abortion. The justices can either reaffirm the constitutional right to an abortion or wipe it away altogether. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Feldman: Supreme Court justices signal they are ready to overturn Roe v. Wade

December 1, 2021 at 2:16 p.m.

Based on today鈥檚 oral argument, it seems unlikely that any of the other justices are interested in a compromise on abortion. Justice Brett Kavanaugh, in particular, seemed to telegraph a...

Feldman: It’s too soon to call the Derek Chauvin verdict a turning point

April 21, 2021 at 4:30 p.m.

Perhaps, years from now, if existing trends are reversed and more police officers start to be held accountable for using excessive force against Black people, we will be able to...

Feldman: Kamala Harris is eligible to be VP; shout it from the roof

August 17, 2020 at 2:56 p.m.

The theory that Kamala Harris is ineligible to be vice president because her parents were not U.S. citizens is xenophobic and false.

Members of the Electoral College sign their Certificate of Vote after voting for the president and the vice president of the United States at the Colorado State Capitol. December 19, 2016 Denver, CO. A bill being considered in Colorado and a number of other states this year would require Colorado electors cast their vote for the winner of the national popular vote.

Feldman: Supreme Court patches up Electoral College for 2020

July 6, 2020 at 2:04 p.m.

The decision is important because it will help avoid an election disaster in which a few electors try to thwart the will of the people.

Feldman: Elon Musk is breaking the law by reopening Tesla

May 12, 2020 at 2:38 p.m.

It抖阴ap not exactly the Montgomery bus boycott, and Elon Musk is no Rosa Parks, but Tesla is apparently engaged in a highly unusual act of corporate civil disobedience.

In this screen grab from video issued by Britain's Oxford University, a volunteer is injected with either an experimental COVID-19 vaccine or a comparison shot as part of the first human trials in the U.K. to test a potential vaccine, led by Oxford University in England on April 25, 2020. About 100 research groups around the world are pursuing vaccines against the coronavirus, with nearly a dozen in early stages of human trials or poised to start.

Feldman: America has no plan for the worst-case scenario on COVID-19

May 6, 2020 at 6:01 p.m.

In the midst of the constant up-and-down of coronavirus news, both from science and the markets, it抖阴ap easy to lose sight of the scariest scenario of them all: the one...

Voters observe social distancing guidelines as ...

Feldman: The Supreme Court can’t guard the 2020 election

April 10, 2020 at 12:00 p.m.

The Supreme Court抖阴ap decision in the Wisconsin election case isn鈥檛 exactly the shot heard round the world. In a narrow, 5 to 4 decision, the court抖阴ap conservatives held that a...

Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich shakes hands with a supporter as he arrives home in Chicago on Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2020, after his release from Colorado prison late Tuesday. Blagojevich walked out of prison Tuesday after President Donald Trump cut short the 14-year prison sentence handed to the former Illinois governor for political corruption.

Feldman: Presidential pardons have been a bad idea since 1787

February 19, 2020 at 5:43 p.m.

The president of the United States isn鈥檛 a king, and he isn鈥檛 above the law -- or so constitutional law professors like me keep reminding everybody. But the painful truth...

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