Lawyer and Legal Writer

Brett Talley

1 article 2013

Brett Talley is a lawyer and writer who contributed to The Weekly Standard in 2013. He wrote on constitutional and legal issues for the magazine. Talley gained wider public attention when he was nominated for a federal judgeship in 2017.

Dispensing with the Constitution

January 14, 2013 · Law, Magazine

We are in the midst of a crisis of federalism and we don’t even know it. In November, the states of Colorado and Washington legalized recreational marijuana use, while 16 other states and Washington, D.C., already permitted the medical use of marijuana. Yet at the same time, the Controlled…