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24 Feb 2024, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
  Although the Taft Court continued to reflect traditional norms and showed “high rates of uniformity” in its decisions,[3] after 1925 its unanimity rates began to “slide”(617), a slide that would quicken in the 1930s and 1940s and that later Courts would often accelerate but seldom reverse.[4] The Taft Court’s legendary dissenters–Justices Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Louis D. [read post]
7 Feb 2024, 9:35 am by fjhinojosa
Murphy’s book A Guide to Judicial and Political Review of Federal Agencies is briefly summarized in the following article: Thomas E. [read post]
20 Jun 2023, 7:09 pm by Jacob Fishman
” Surveillance relapse is the probability that counterterror enforcement will revert to principal and historic subjects of surveillance—Muslim and Black communities—because of the deeply racialized understanding of terrorism rooted in the federal and local law enforcement agencies tasked with carrying forward surveillance. [read post]
18 Jun 2023, 9:03 pm by Vikram David Amar and Jason Mazzone
The United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit recently handed down an important 2-1 ruling in a case involving changes in the admissions policy at the Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology (“Thomas Jefferson” or “TJ”) in Alexandria, Virginia, a public STEM-focused school that has a selective admissions process and that has traditionally served high-performing students. [read post]
28 Jan 2023, 8:00 am by Guest Blogger
  In the wake of the shooting of civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr., Thomas recalls a white classmate hoping “the son of a bitch died. [read post]
3 Oct 2022, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar and Jason Mazzone
But it is hard to separate Kagan’s comments from the Dobbs decision last term, where the three Justices appointed by President Trump—Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Barrett—joined Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito to overturn Roe v. [read post]
8 Sep 2022, 4:24 am by Emma Snell
Valeriy Zaluzhnyi, and a colleague wrote in an article published on Wednesday by Ukrinform, a Ukrainian news agency, that as many as 10 Russian warplanes were destroyed in the attack on the Saki Air Base, on Crimea’s western Black Sea coast. [read post]
28 Apr 2022, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar and Jason Mazzone
” This approach (akin to so-called “percentage plans” used throughout the country to guarantee school admission to the top grade-earners of feeder schools without regard to how these top grade-earners fare on standardized tests or other admissions metrics) had the (predictable and desired) effect of increasing the number of Black students who were granted admission to TJ, presumably because at least some of the feeder middle schools in the region had high percentages of… [read post]
21 Apr 2022, 7:30 am by Guest Blogger
For the Balkinization symposium on Daniel Carpenter, Democracy by Petition: Popular Politics in Transformation, 1790–1870 (Harvard University Press, 2021).Daniel Carpenter[1] Is there anything like the petition of lore left in our republic? [read post]
20 Apr 2022, 7:30 am by Guest Blogger
For the Balkinization symposium on Daniel Carpenter, Democracy by Petition: Popular Politics in Transformation, 1790–1870 (Harvard University Press, 2021). [read post]
19 Apr 2022, 4:51 am by Emma Snell
“Ukraine’s decision to saturate their own village with a cluster munition that has the capacity to haphazardly kill innocent people underscores their strategic calculation: This is what they needed to do to retake their country, no matter the cost,” Thomas Gibbons-Neff and John Ismay report for the New York Times. [read post]
7 Mar 2022, 6:58 am by gA
Sus votos son muy black-letter law, usando fuentes "duras" ley y jurisprudencia mirados de muy cerca. [read post]