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22 Mar 2023, 1:05 pm by Dani Selby
(Image: Library of Congress) In 1931, Jane Bolin became the first Black woman to graduate from Yale Law School. [read post]
19 Mar 2023, 5:09 pm by David Super
     A second question about the end of these enhancements is one of representation. [read post]
21 Feb 2023, 6:41 am by Andy Wright
’ Until Lyndon Johnson got an office on the White House grounds in the Executive Office Building, the only official office for use by the Vice President was in the Capitol building, and it was not until Walter Mondale that the Vice President had an office in the West Wing of the White House. [read post]
10 Feb 2023, 10:59 am by Arianna Morseau
Our fast-paced Office provides legal services related to homelessness prevention through community education, advice and consultation, representation without litigation, direct representation of tenants in Unlawful Detainer (eviction) proceedings in state court, and affirmative litigation on behalf of tenants against unlawful housing actions by landlords. [read post]
2 Feb 2023, 6:30 am by John Mikhail
Countless books, articles, and judicial opinions tell us what “the framers” believed or assumed about thes [read post]
1 Feb 2023, 7:30 am by ACLU
Deprived of the basics of democracy, compelled to abide by racial segregation, and denied representation in Congress, my hometown prepared me to look to the First Amendment for change. [read post]
27 Jan 2023, 8:00 am by Guest Blogger
   Asserting Congress’s power under Section 5 of the 14th Amendment to enact statutory disparate impact standards. [read post]
26 Jan 2023, 8:00 am by Guest Blogger
  To be sure, Congress can overrule a presidential veto, but, over our entire history, presidents have been successful in sustaining their vetoes roughly 95% of the time. [read post]
26 Jan 2023, 5:01 am by Matt Perault, Samm Sacks
USDS will house TikTok teams that access U.S. user data, access TikTok’s software code and back-end systems, or moderate content on the platform. [read post]
25 Jan 2023, 8:00 am by Mark Graber
 State equality in the Senate constrains persons who believe in representation by population, configures politics by enabling low population states to receive far more than their fair share of federal funds, and constitutes politics when people assume that equal state representation is a natural feature of governance in the United States. [read post]
23 Jan 2023, 7:30 am by Guest Blogger
By mechanically separating the cotton fiber from the sticky seeds, which formerly had to be done by hand, the plantation farming of cotton using slave labor became enormously profitable. [read post]
20 Jan 2023, 2:43 pm by Arianna Morseau
  Standing Rock Sioux Tribe In-House Attorney. [read post]
19 Jan 2023, 6:12 am by Dan Bressler
Bankman-Fried is currently under house arrest at his parents’ California home as he faces federal fraud charges. [read post]
11 Jan 2023, 9:01 pm by Joseph Margulies
Even better if the villain obviates the need for us to consider the broader structures of American political, economic, and social life. [read post]
8 Jan 2023, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
I agree that one could well believe that the losers of the 1860 election should have been “good sports,” in part because there is no reason to believe that the Lincoln Administration would have been able to do very much if the House and Senate continued to have full representation from the eleven secessionist states. [read post]
3 Jan 2023, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
In 1775 Americans were denied “consent” and had no representation in Parliament, which in conjunction with the Crown, persistently denied Americans a right to self-government. [read post]
30 Dec 2022, 4:35 pm by INFORRM
The plaintiffs were eleven members of the House of Representatives and two capitol police officers. [read post]