James Romoser

James Romoser came to POLITICO in March 2023 after serving as the editor of SCOTUSblog. He also previously wrote a weekly column on legal affairs for National Journal, and he worked as a reporter covering health law for Inside Health Policy.

James attended Columbia, where he learned to be a journalist at the Columbia Daily Spectator. In 2005, he began his career at the Winston-Salem Journal, where he covered everything from tobacco farming to state politics. In 2012, he detoured to law school at Georgetown. But after getting a J.D. and serving a brief stint as a First Amendment lawyer, he realized he missed news too much and returned to journalism.

James lives in Washington D.C. He loves chess, the Beatles and the freedom of information.

Elizabeth Price Foley

Elizabeth Price Foley is a founding member of the FIU College of Law. She teaches constitutional law, separation of powers, and civil procedure. She also presently serves as Partner in Holtzman Vogel, PLLC, where she practices constitutional, political, and appellate law. Prior to joining Holtzman, Professor Foley served Of Counsel for Cooper & Kirk, PLLC, and BakerHostetler, LLP.

She is the author of Liberty for All: Reclaiming Individual Privacy in a New Era of Public Morality (Yale University Press 2006), The Law of Life and Death (Harvard University Press 2011) and The Tea Party: Three Principles (Cambridge University Press 2012). She is a frequent op-ed writer, and her opinions appear regularly in national papers including The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, The Hill, and the National Law Journal. Professor Foley has testified before Congress numerous times on issues of constitutional law, including federal court reform, due process, the constitutional amendment process, congressional standing to sue the President, the scope of the President’s duty to faithfully execute the law, and the scope of the executive branch’s prosecutorial discretion.

She presently serves on the Editorial Board of the Cato Institute’s premier journal, the Supreme Court Review, and on the Research Advisory Board of the James Madison Institute. She previously held the Institute for Justice Chair in Constitutional Litigation at FIU Law, during which time she served as Executive Director of the Florida Chapter of the Institute for Justice, litigating constitutional cases. She also previously served as Chair of the Florida Advisory Committee of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, as a member of the NIH National Academy of Science’s Committee on Embryonic Stem Cell Guidelines and as a Fulbright Scholar at the College of Law of the National University of Ireland, Galway. From 2011-2013,

Prior to joining FIU as a “founding faculty” member in 2002, Professor Foley was a Professor of Law at Michigan State University College of Law and an Adjunct Professor at the MSU College of Human Medicine.

Foley served as a law clerk to the Honorable Carolyn Dineen King of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and spent several years on Capitol Hill as a health policy advisor, serving as Senior Legislative Aide to U.S. Congressman (now U.S. Senator) Ron Wyden (D-OR), Legislative Aide for the D.C. office of the Health Insurance Plan of Greater New York, and a Legislative Aide for U.S. Congressman Michael Andrews (D-TX).

An energetic and innovative classroom teacher, Professor Foley was selected in 2012 as First Runner-Up for FIU’s “Worlds Ahead” Faculty Award. She received the “Professor of the Year” award from the College of Law for the 2009-2010 academic year. She is admitted to practice in Florida, Texas, Washington, D.C. and the U.S. Supreme Court.