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29 Apr 2024, 9:01 pm
In this, the second of a two-part essay series, we continue to explore the constitutional issues raised by a recent episode in which a public high school (Central Davidson High School in Lexington, North Carolina) imposed disciplinary suspension on a student, Christian McGhee, for invoking the term “illegal alien” when asking a question to his teacher about an assignment. [read post]
28 Apr 2024, 9:01 pm
The two of us just finished co-teaching a law school class focused on the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment, and this semester has not lacked for plenty of cutting-edge, ripped-from-the headlines fodder for us to explore with our students. [read post]
24 Apr 2024, 9:01 pm
Every several years, around this time in the spring semester, I try to collect and update advice to offer to law students as they enter final-exam period (which is about to take place over the next few weeks at virtually every law school in the country). [read post]
16 Apr 2024, 9:01 pm
A year ago, almost to the day, my (co-authored) Verdict column focused on the lessons to be learned from a high-profile and boisterous protest by Stanford Law School students at a Federalist Society Speaker Event featuring Judge Kyle Duncan, a conservative Trump-appointed judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. [read post]
11 Apr 2024, 9:01 pm
In two of my last three Verdict columns (this one and then this one co-authored with Jason Mazzone), I have discussed—in connection with the Supreme Court’s consideration in Trump v. [read post]
24 Mar 2024, 9:01 pm
Earlier this month, in Trump v. [read post]
27 Feb 2024, 9:01 pm
In the space below, we raise and begin to analyze several interesting legal issues raised by the recent decision by a federal district court judge to dismiss the lawsuit filed by the Disney Corporation against Florida officials for alleged retaliation (against Disney’s outspoken opposition to certain Florida laws and policies) by altering the structure of the board that regulates the land in which Disney World is located. [read post]
13 Feb 2024, 10:38 am
Also online there, law professor Vikram David Amar has an essay titled “The Supreme Court’s Oral Argument in Trump v. [read post]
12 Feb 2024, 9:00 pm
The Court’s manipulation of the meaning of Section Three can’t address the basic reality that states can (and ultimately will) do whatever they want as long as we have an electoral college model for picking Presidents, something on which our originalist Constitution is (for better or worse) quite clear.Follow @prof_amar Vikram David Amar is a [read post]
8 Feb 2024, 9:36 am
Akhil Amar & Vikram Amar.] [read post]
7 Feb 2024, 11:00 pm
The Amar brothers think that our current setup of having legislative officers in the line of succession to the presidency is unconstitutional as they argued in print in Akhil Reed Amar & Vikram David Amar, Is the Presidential Succession Law Constitutional? [read post]
2 Feb 2024, 6:51 am
As Vikram David Amar has pointed out in these pages, the Incompatibility Clause (Art. [read post]
31 Jan 2024, 9:01 pm
We don’t think there is a convincing answer to that question, which is one straightforward reason why we would be extremely surprised if this lawsuit ending up having any real legs.Follow @prof_amar Vikram David Amar is a Distinguished Professor of Law at UC Davis School of Law and a Professor of Law and Former De [read post]
29 Jan 2024, 8:09 am
Akhil Reed Amar (Yale) and Vikram David Amar (Illinois) in Trump v. [read post]
26 Jan 2024, 7:53 am
In late December, University of Illinois standout basketball player Terrence Shannon Jr. was arrested by Kansas officials for alleged digital penetration of a woman’s vagina without her consent at a bar in Lawrence, Kansas, back in September. [read post]
25 Jan 2024, 9:01 pm
Say what you will about Donald Trump, he is a prodigious generator of constitutional law. [read post]
1 Jan 2024, 9:02 pm
Just before Christmas, the Wisconsin Supreme Court issued an important ruling that invalidated the district lines (enacted by state legislators and the governor) that had been in use for elections for state legislative elections. [read post]
26 Dec 2023, 9:01 pm
But we must be careful to distinguish those kind of prudential arguments from the much more careless “removing an opposition candidate from the ballot, indeed, a candidate currently leading in some polling averages . . . . through the exercise of judicial power is [inherently] a remarkably antidemocratic act” language.That latter kind of language and reasoning undermines, rather than promotes, what democracy means in America’s distinctive constitutional system.Follow… [read post]
25 Dec 2023, 9:01 pm
”Professor Lessig’s essay never returns to this “strong argument” to debunk it, making all the time and effort he spends on whether a sensible Section 3 could have intentionally excluded the President (which is beside the point if the President does hold office under the United States) the real puzzle.Follow @prof_amar Vikram David Amar is a Distinguished Professor of Law at UC Davis School of Law and a Professor of… [read post]
2 Dec 2023, 7:25 pm
My Northwestern colleague, Steve Calabresi, asked me to post this on his behalf: In an earlier post on the Volokh Conspiracy, I described Professors Akhil Reed Amar's and Vikram David Amar's disagreement with an amicus brief that former Attorney General Edwin Meese III, Professor Gary Lawson, and I filed in Moore v. [read post]
