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8 Feb 2021, 9:00 pm
Faced with a blizzard of illogical, strange, bad-faith arguments coming from Senate Republicans in advance of Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial, one might think that there has to be at least something to their arguments. [read post]
7 Feb 2021, 1:01 pm
[This post was co-authored by Josh Blackman and Seth Barrett Tillman] On Thursday, February 4, 2021, we discussed the First Amendment arguments in the House of Representatives' Managers' trial memorandum. [read post]
4 Feb 2021, 9:00 pm
You have to admit, the job is not easy. [read post]
3 Feb 2021, 9:01 pm
The Senate has announced that when it convenes later this month for the second impeachment trial of former President Donald J. [read post]
22 Dec 2020, 9:01 pm
But legislatures and courts need to understand what the Twenty-Sixth Amendment says and means to prevent this invidious disparate treatment from continuing to affect election outcomes in future years.Follow @prof_amar Vikram David Amar is the Dean and Iwan Foundation Professor of Law at the University of Illinois College of Law on the Urbana-Champaign campus. [read post]
9 Dec 2020, 9:01 pm
In the first four parts of our series on the California v. [read post]
24 Nov 2020, 9:01 pm
Immediately prior to taking the position at Illinois in 2015, Amar served as the Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and a Professor of Law at the UC Davis School of Law. [read post]
12 Nov 2020, 9:01 pm
What we are witnessing is not a “tantrum. [read post]
9 Nov 2020, 9:01 pm
Accordingly, we can separate the plausible scenarios from the hot air.The Challenge Is PreposterousRegular Verdict readers will have learned from an outstanding four-part series by Vikram Amar, Evan Caminker, and Jason Mazzone that the challenge to the ACA the Court hears today rests on a truly preposterous chain of reasoning.In 2010, Congress enacted the ACA, a complex law with some interrelated and many unrelated parts. [read post]
29 Oct 2020, 9:02 pm
Holm.In addition, here on Verdict yesterday, Dean Vikram Amar wrote a brilliant column that—without even relying on Smiley—showed that the term “legislature” in Article II (and, for that matter, in Article I in a related context) does not mean “the legislature acting alone” but “the state’s lawmaking process as a whole. [read post]
29 Oct 2020, 9:01 pm
Assume that in California v. [read post]
28 Oct 2020, 9:01 pm
With Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s seat on the Supreme Court now filled, many are taking stock of her judicial legacy. [read post]
28 Oct 2020, 8:16 am
“The Supreme Court Should Stay Out of State Election Law; Allowing federal courts to muck around with state election laws is dangerous and destabilizing”: Law professors Akhil Reed Amar, Vikram David Amar, and Neal Kumar Katyal have this essay online at The New York Times. [read post]
27 Oct 2020, 7:24 am
Illinois law dean and professor Vikram David Amar considers one majority opinion and two dissents by the late Justice that he finds himself most drawn to for Verdict. [read post]
15 Oct 2020, 9:01 pm
As readers of this series will no doubt recall, in 2012 the Supreme Court in National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) v. [read post]
12 Oct 2020, 9:01 pm
This second installment in our series on the upcoming legal challenge to the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in California v. [read post]
7 Oct 2020, 9:01 pm
Here on Verdict alone, readers can find columns by my colleagues Marci Hamilton, Vikram Amar, and Joanna Grossman, while Joseph Margulies offered a helpful suggestion regarding what Justice Ginsburg’s admirers should do now.Because I am a tax law scholar, my take on the Ginsburg legacy is unique. [read post]
2 Oct 2020, 9:11 pm
In an influential 1995 article, Professors Akhil and Vikram Amar argued that the 1947 Presidential Succession Act was unconstitutional. [read post]
2 Oct 2020, 4:24 pm
But under an alternate theory advanced by Professors Akhil and Vikram Amar, the Presidential Succession Act is unconstitutional. [read post]
2 Oct 2020, 7:23 am
He's 86, and maybe he knows that, while he's okay hanging on as a Senator, he doesn't belong in the presidency.There is also a serious argument, first laid out by Yale Law School professor Akhil Reed Amar and his brother, Vikram Amar, now dean of the University of Illinois College of Law, in a 1995 essay in the Stanford Law Review, that the Succession Act is unconstitutional. [read post]
