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7 Sep 2017, 9:01 pm
In my last column, I began analyzing a recent plan by Silicon Valley billionaire investor Tim Draper to break up California into three separate states stemming from his view that “California’s diverse population and economies [have] rendered the state nearly ungovernable. [read post]
1 Dec 2019, 9:01 pm
As we explained in a column a few weeks ago, Part One in a series, an important federal lawsuit challenging Mississippi’s scheme for electing governors is wending its way through the federal courts. [read post]
20 Sep 2018, 9:01 pm
Earlier this summer, Illinois became the 37th state to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) to the United States Constitution originally proposed by Congress on March 22, 1972. [read post]
13 Mar 2022, 9:01 pm
Each of my last five columns has analyzed aspects or features of the so-called Independent-State-Legislature (ISL) theory concerning Articles I and II of the federal Constitution. [read post]
17 Jun 2019, 9:01 pm
Last week Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed into law SB 168, considered one of the strictest measures in the nation to prohibit state and local government entities from becoming so-called “sanctuary” jurisdictions within the state. [read post]
11 Sep 2022, 9:01 pm
The past term at the Supreme Court will certainly be known for the Dobbs decision overruling Roe v. [read post]
28 Feb 2022, 9:00 pm
With all the major news events of the last week, one important storyline may be going unnoticed. [read post]
14 Jul 2021, 9:01 pm
Last month, Texas adopted an anti-abortion statute that is noteworthy not so much for how it tries to deter abortions but for how it tries to deter legal challenges to the statute itself. [read post]
23 Jun 2020, 9:00 pm
When can federal judges, selected and given life tenure under Article III of the Constitution, inject themselves into core prosecutorial functions and decisions managed by the U.S. [read post]
12 May 2019, 9:01 pm
President Trump’s tweet a few weeks ago—indicating that he “would first head to the U.S. [read post]
14 Sep 2020, 9:01 pm
Last week a divided three-judge panel of the U.S. [read post]
29 Jun 2017, 9:01 pm
In light of the various ongoing investigations—some by special DOJ counsel Robert Mueller and others by various congressional committees in both houses—of members or associates of President Trump’s administration, there is a great deal of talk these days about “executive privilege” that the president may or may not enjoy to shield from view communications he has with his advisors. [read post]
19 Mar 2020, 9:01 pm
If you are a member of the legal profession, you almost certainly appreciate that written communication is a lawyer’s stock in trade. [read post]
23 Sep 2020, 9:01 pm
Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s career will be remembered for so many things, most notably her work as a litigator, a law professor, a lower court judge and a Justice at the Supreme Court (where she sat for over a quarter century). [read post]
18 May 2017, 9:01 pm
Although I had planned to write on another subject this week, recent and fast-moving events warrant attention to the topic of impeachment, a process more and more commentators (and some legislators on Capitol Hill) have been mentioning. [read post]
25 Jul 2016, 9:01 pm
A few weeks ago, the U.S. [read post]
3 Feb 2020, 9:01 pm
No, it isn’t law professor Alan Dershowitz’s claim that “abuses of power” that are neither formal crimes nor “crime-like” can never constitute impeachable high crimes and misdemeanors. [read post]
14 Dec 2017, 9:01 pm
The year that is winding down brought many legal twists and turns at the highest levels of the federal government, and 2018 promises to be just as legally interesting and important. [read post]
26 Jun 2019, 9:01 pm
June 2019 might become known in Illinois as the month the state legalized marijuana use, but I hope it remains better remembered as the 100th anniversary of Illinois’ ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment—the provision in the Constitution that prohibited discrimination in voting on account of sex. [read post]
22 Sep 2016, 9:01 pm
Columns on this website that examine judicial rulings tend to focus on the very last stage of litigation—a U.S. [read post]
