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6 May 2024, 10:42 am by Eugene Volokh
Compare this with the Fourteenth Amendment which provides in pertinent part that "No State shall … deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. [read post]
2 May 2024, 5:53 am by Tom Joscelyn
The January 6th Select Committee cited examples of the courts’ weighing and dismissing Trump’s claims in the key swing states of Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. [read post]
8 Mar 2024, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
The justices warned of chaos if a candidate for nationwide office could be declared ineligible in some states, but not others, based on the same conduct. [read post]
2 Feb 2024, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
The report said lobbyists reported over $46 billion in combined federal and state lobbying expenditures since 2015. [read post]
31 Jan 2024, 7:10 am by Marty Lederman
  Perhaps one or more of the possible outcome-determinative “swing” states (e.g., Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin) would omit his name, although even that is highly speculative, as it would depend upon questions of state-law authority and who controls the executive and judicial branches of the particular state. [read post]
28 Jan 2024, 8:49 pm by Marty Lederman
  Although those plaintiffs lack any power to prevent Trump from serving as President (as does the State of Colorado), they claim that his alleged ineligibility has an incidental effect under Colorado law—namely, that it requires the Secretary of State not to include Trump’s name on the Republican party ballot in connection with the Colorado presidential primary election and (potentially) the Colorado general election ballot in November. [read post]
30 Oct 2023, 4:00 am by Michael C. Dorf
First, because the original action recycled claims that had already been rejected by state courts and lower federal courts, I thought it highly unlikely that the the Supreme Court would hear the case, although I acknowledged that two Justices--Thomas and Alito--had previously expressed the view that the Court lacks the power to decline jurisdiction in state-versus-state original jurisdiction cases. [read post]
12 Oct 2023, 5:51 am by Eugene Volokh
Further, "[s]imply because the decision of a parent is not agreeable to a child or because it involves risks does not automatically transfer the power to make that decision from the parents to some agency or officer of the state. [read post]
11 Oct 2023, 3:30 pm by Jacob Fishman
To what extent should international climate change law be developed through negotiations or adjudication, by States or by courts? [read post]
25 Sep 2023, 9:00 pm by Vikram David Amar
Things are particularly fractious in Wisconsin, where Republican leaders in the elected legislature are threatening to impeach new Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Janet Protasiewicz with impeachment proceedings if she fails to recuse herself in cases that have been filed challenging, as violative of the Wisconsin constitution, the state’s districting maps used for state and congressional elections that were drawn by a Republican majority after the… [read post]
3 Sep 2023, 3:51 am by SHG
The Court concludes that it lacks subject matter jurisdiction and dismisses the Complaint. [read post]
25 Aug 2023, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
This year, Democrats and Republicans in power pushed back. [read post]
21 Aug 2023, 7:47 am by Christopher J. Walker
He is a public member of the Administrative Conference of the United States, and last year he was appointed to the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States. [read post]
21 Aug 2023, 7:47 am by Christopher J. Walker
He is a public member of the Administrative Conference of the United States, and last year he was appointed to the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States. [read post]
11 Aug 2023, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
Smith’s team repeatedly mentioned Trump’s tweets in an indictment that charges the former president with conspiring to subvert the will of voters and cling to power after he lost the 2020 election to Joe Biden. [read post]
26 Jun 2023, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
Soon, however, this idea of interposition took on a life of its own, perhaps not unexpectedly as state and federal actors began working out the meaning of the newly-birthed concept of divided sovereignty and overlapping jurisdictions. [read post]