Daniel J. Urman

Sedition involves “inciting insurrection against lawful authority,” Daniel Urman, professor of law at Northeastern University, told Newsweek.

Daniel Urman, a professor of law at Northeastern University, said he thinks the justices will also weigh considerations beyond the legal ones. The court, which has granted win after win to Trump in a series of temporary cases, may be looking for a chance to check the president with two other major cases dealing with […]

“Nixon wanted to expand presidential power but he complied because the other branches pushed back,” said Daniel Urman, a constitutional-law scholar at Northeastern University.

Still, Daniel Urman, a law professor at Northeastern University, told Newsweek that it’s unlikely the Supreme Court will agree to overturn same-sex marriage.

Daniel Urman, law professor at Northeastern University, told Newsweek it is unlikely the Supreme Court would agree to overturn same-sex marriage.

“Trump is using the pardon power freely and brazenly,” Daniel Urman, a Northeastern University legal scholar, told me. “The Jan. 6 pardons especially are really a way to rewrite history and frame the rioters and insurrectionists, including individuals who attacked law enforcement officers and others who showed no remorse, as heroes.”

Daniel Urman, a Northeastern University law professor, told Newsweek no one really knows when someone will leave the court, but that Alito and Thomas would be the most likely to retire to ensure someone with similar legal views could replace them on the court. But it may not necessarily be likely because they are now in the […]

Presidents have steered clear of direct involvement with the Justice Department since the abuses by President Nixon during the Watergate scandal. But Trump has changed that approach, choosing his Justice Department appointees “for loyalty, not independence,” said Dan Urman, who teaches courses on the Supreme Court at Northeastern University.

There’s no “fixed definition” of the term “constitutional crisis,” Northeastern University professor Dan Urman said in 2024, though it’s broadly taken to refer to a clash between the various branches of government.

Northeastern University law professor Daniel Urman said the rare step of issuing a public statement “shows that there is a line for Chief Justice Roberts, and President Trump crossed it by calling for the judge’s impeachments.”