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5 Dec 2023, 9:01 pm by Michael C. Dorf
” Although one can never be certain of the outcome based on the questions asked at oral argument, the Court’s conservative super-majority seemed receptive to the Seventh Amendment rights claim of the respondents.In an essay on the Dorf on Law blog last week, I explained why the Supreme Court should reject the Seventh Amendment claim, even as I acknowledged that a majority probably will accept it. [read post]
29 Nov 2023, 5:07 am by Neil H. Buchanan
  In October 2012, I wrote complementary Verdict and Dorf on Law columns in which I explained why the Republican Party by that time had clearly revealed its sociopathic foundations.In particular, I pointed out in the Verdict column that Republicans of the day -- most definitely including that year's Republican presidential nominee, Mitt Romney -- had "openly advocated policies that harm innocent people—and they have adopted methods to achieve those ends that simply… [read post]
9 Oct 2023, 2:40 pm by Justia Team
This week, professors Vikram Amar and Michael Dorf, both of whom possess extensive legal knowledge and experience, are set to deliver a members-only look at some of the most talked-about cases on the Court’s upcoming docket. [read post]
8 Oct 2023, 9:39 pm by Michael C. Dorf
Since last week’s unprecedented ouster of Kevin McCarthy as Speaker of the House of Representatives, two leading candidates have emerged to take his place: Republican House Majority Leader Steve Scalise and Republican Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan. [read post]
25 Sep 2023, 9:01 pm by Michael C. Dorf
According to an indictment that was unsealed in federal district court in Manhattan last week, New Jersey Democratic Senator Robert Menendez solicited and accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars of bribes in exchange for using his influence as ranking minority member and later chair of the Foreign Relations Committee to secure hundreds of millions of dollars in military aid to Egypt, while also leaning on state prosecutors to drop a case against one of his patrons. [read post]
20 Sep 2023, 4:00 am by Michael C. Dorf
If I failed in making that clear or in any other respect, that's my doing.Postscript: As promised above, here's the symposium schedule:Friday, September 29, 2023 at Rutgers School of Law, NewarkWelcome Remarks (9:00 – 9:15 am; breakfast available beginning at 8:15 am)Johanna Bond, Dean, Rutgers Law SchoolCrosscurrents (9:15 – 10:30 am)Michael Dorf, Robert S. [read post]
14 Sep 2023, 4:24 am by Michael C. Dorf
In explaining why that's the math, Eastman did rely on the Buchanan/Dorf/Tribe observation that under the 12th Amendment a candidate need only receive a majority of Electoral votes that are counted. [read post]