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31 Aug 2023, 5:02 pm by Georgialee Lang
  This case is yet another illustration of Sir Walter Scott’s adage, “Oh, what a tangled web we weave/When first we practise to deceive. [read post]
19 Aug 2006, 11:19 am
Moreover, there is ample scholarly evidence that the party background of appellate judges helps to explain the actual opinions in cases. [read post]
3 Apr 2014, 2:58 pm by Joey Fishkin
In yesterday’s big campaign finance case, McCutcheon v. [read post]
9 Oct 2020, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
(Harvard University Press, 2020), and Jesse Wegman, Let the People Pick the President: The Case for Abolishing the Electoral College (St. [read post]
27 Apr 2022, 1:12 pm by Public Employment Law Press
Every ten years, following the federal census, reapportionment of the state senate, assembly, and congressional districts in New York must be undertaken to account for population shifts and potential changes in the state's allocated number of congressional representatives (see NY Const, art III, § 4). [read post]
27 Apr 2022, 1:12 pm by Public Employment Law Press
Every ten years, following the federal census, reapportionment of the state senate, assembly, and congressional districts in New York must be undertaken to account for population shifts and potential changes in the state's allocated number of congressional representatives (see NY Const, art III, § 4). [read post]
8 Apr 2016, 6:02 am by Joe May
The court did not rule on a separate question of whether it would be constitutional for states to use the voter-eligible population for reapportionment if they chose to do so. [read post]
3 Jul 2015, 6:36 am by Jim Sedor
Leland Yee pleaded guilty to a racketeering charge in an organized crime and public corruption case. [read post]
3 Jun 2008, 12:27 pm
(Disclosure: I consulted with the ACLU on that case.) [read post]
3 Jun 2008, 12:27 pm
(Disclosure: I consulted with the ACLU on that case.) [read post]
2 Jan 2007, 3:28 am
In attempting this the reactionaries and the conservatives wanted to reverse or nullify, if they could, the Court's rulings on reapportionment, on voting rights, on free speech, on religion, on rights of privacy (which culminated in that famous case about alternative choices of waterborne movement, Roe v. [read post]
17 Dec 2019, 12:15 pm by Ronald Collins
So originalists have to tie themselves in knots to try to explain how originalism can be made consistent with cases like Brown and Loving. [read post]
26 Jan 2023, 8:00 am by Guest Blogger
  This might raise questions, for example, about the status of the Swedish or Austrian constitutions, both of which acceptable to most liberal theorists in terms of articulated values, but are, at the same time, far more permeable, to change than is the case with, notably, the United States Constitution, probably the most difficult-to-amend constitution in the entire world. [read post]
17 Mar 2023, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
National/Federal No Rest Between Censuses for Congressional Mapmakers DNyuz – Reid Epstein (New York Times) | Published: 3/10/2023 For just about all of the nation’s history, politicians would fight over redistricting for a short period after each once-a-decade census, then forget about congressional maps until the next reapportionment. [read post]
14 May 2019, 7:29 am by Andrew Hamm
The following is a series of questions prompted by the forthcoming publication of Michael Bobelian’s “Battle for the Marble Palace: Abe Fortas, Earl Warren, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, and the Forging of the Modern Supreme Court” (Schaffner Press, 2019). [read post]
13 Sep 2019, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
If one party makes big gains in state Legislatures, they would have the power to use the decennial reapportionment and redistricting process to substantially alter the partisan makeup of Congress. [read post]
10 Jan 2020, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
House Judiciary Committee that subpoenaed former White House Counsel Don McGahn and could be the pivotal vote in deciding the case. [read post]