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1 Mar 2024, 5:16 pm by Tom Ginsburg
First, it is focused quite directly on the law in action, suggesting that the true functional law is Lynch’s rather than that of the United States. [read post]
24 Feb 2024, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
  Later the same year the even more conservative and inflexible Pierce Butler replaced the moderate William R. [read post]
8 Feb 2024, 9:36 am by Eugene Volokh
By 1868, the First Insurrection was deeply seared into America's historical memory. [read post]
2 Feb 2024, 9:30 pm by ernst
  Scalia, J., thought Presidents were "officers of the United States" (Lawfare). [read post]
21 Jan 2024, 9:01 pm by Austin Sarat
In that ruling, the court said that it was unconstitutional for a prosecutor in any case to use peremptory jury challenges to exclude “potential jurors solely on account of their race or on the assumption that black jurors as a group will be unable impartially to consider the State’s case against a black defendant. [read post]
4 Dec 2023, 2:49 pm by Barbara Moreno
Jeffrey Bellin, Mass Incarceration Nation:  How the United States Became Addicted to Prisons and Jails and How it can Recover (2023). 11. [read post]
7 Nov 2023, 10:25 am by Neil H. Buchanan
Roe was a terrible corruption of America’s constitutional jurisprudence.The Guardian also reported this from a different hearing: "Roe v Wade did constitutional cover to the elective killing of unborn children in America, period. [read post]
25 Aug 2023, 9:30 pm by ernst
The Commerce Clause, in Nation and States,” at the U.S. [read post]
9 Aug 2023, 4:18 am by Eric Segall
United States, in which the Could upheld the forced relocation of all people of Japanese descent on the West Coast just because of their ancestry. [read post]
9 May 2023, 9:01 pm by renholding
There is reason to believe the SEC’s new universal proxy Rule 14a-19 will result in more stockholder nominees being elected to the boards of public companies. [read post]
10 Apr 2023, 7:38 am by Eugene Volokh
Cuomo[9] protected Catholics' religious gatherings, but its companion case was Agudath Israel of America v. [read post]
23 Feb 2023, 9:01 pm by Austin Sarat
Those challenges have alleged that Black defendants are more likely than White defendants to get death sentences, even when they commit comparable crimes.In 1972, the United States Supreme Court’s Furman v. [read post]
2 Feb 2023, 6:30 am by John Mikhail
The Constitution of the United States has been called the world’s most important legal document. [read post]
23 Jan 2023, 7:30 am by Guest Blogger
In 1776, when the United States of America was founded, the legal institution of slavery existed in every state in the union. [read post]
27 Dec 2022, 9:01 pm by Austin Sarat
The last half century has witnessed extraordinary, almost unimaginable, changes in how Americans think about the death penalty.Fifty years ago, in 1972, the United States Supreme Court brought a temporary halt to capital punishment in Furman v. [read post]
27 Nov 2022, 9:01 pm by Austin Sarat
The first trial ended in a mistrial when jurors could not agree on whether he should be convicted of second-degree or first-degree murder.In advance of that trial, the prosecutors developed a strategy to get around the requirements of the United States Supreme Court’s 1986 Batson v Kentucky decision. [read post]
16 Nov 2022, 4:16 am by Emma Snell
“In order to make America great and glorious again, I am tonight announcing my candidacy for president of the United States,” Trump said during a prime-time event from his Mar-a-Lago estate. [read post]