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31 Mar 2020, 9:01 pm
., selective service conscription).In this regard, harken back to what another prominent constitutional scholar, Akhil Amar (my older brother), wrote about Obamacare in 2012: The next terrorist attack might very well be biological. . . . [read post]
29 Mar 2020, 9:01 pm
In a companion column, Dean Vikram Amar will explore the intriguing possibility that Justice Kagan’s opinion is in some sense really about abortion. [read post]
25 Mar 2020, 10:38 am
Akhil and Vikram Amar responded with an article making the case that legislative succession was unconstitutional. [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]
10 Mar 2020, 9:01 pm
Controversial immigration policies that originate in D.C. and that are enforced throughout the country by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency continue to generate tremendous friction between the federal government, on the on hand, and the state and local governments, on the other. [read post]
3 Mar 2020, 9:01 pm
Late last month a three-judge panel of the U.S. [read post]
28 Feb 2020, 8:05 am
In a 1995 Stanford Law Review article, Professors Akhil Reed and Vikram David Amar argued that the U.S. [read post]
28 Feb 2020, 8:04 am
In a 1995 Stanford Law Review article, Professors Akhil Reed and Vikram David Amar argued that the U.S. [read post]
19 Feb 2020, 9:01 pm
As my Verdict colleague (and Dean of the University of Illinois’s law school) Vikram Amar wrote earlier this week, that is in a trivial sense an accurate statement of the bare bones meaning of the Constitution, but that open-ended power has generally been constrained by norms and, ultimately, by the threat of impeachment, conviction, and removal from office.But what does a country look like when the President has no use for norms—or anything else that might stop him… [read post]
17 Feb 2020, 9:01 pm
The controversy last week surrounding President Trump’s tweets about the sentencing of Roger Stone, a Trump campaign advisor convicted of lying to Congress, is yet another reminder of two transcendently important—but often misunderstood, or at least vastly underappreciated—aspects of American constitutional design. [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]
23 Jan 2020, 9:01 pm
In 2011, in Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church and School v. [read post]
21 Jan 2020, 9:01 pm
As Dean Vikram Amar explained in an excellent September 2018 column here on Verdict, legal uncertainties abound. [read post]
9 Jan 2020, 9:01 pm
Freeing senators from party-leader retribution would be nice, but there is simply no way to do that without freeing senators from accountability to the people of the states (who themselves may prefer to be as intensely partisan as their leaders are in today’s moment), which is the whole point of popular election of senators.Follow @prof_amar Vikram David Amar is the Dean and Iwan Foundation Professor of Law at the University of Illinois College… [read post]
2 Jan 2020, 9:01 pm
There remains uncertainty about exactly how the Senate will conduct impeachment trial proceedings on the two articles of impeachment for President Trump adopted by the House of Representatives last month. [read post]
11 Dec 2019, 9:01 pm
In Parts One and Two of this series, we introduced an important pending federal court challenge to Mississippi’s gubernatorial election regime, situated the dispute in constitutional context, and examined various procedural aspects of the case. [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]
14 Nov 2019, 9:01 pm
Last week Mississippi voters went to the polls to elect a new governor. [read post]
31 Oct 2019, 9:01 pm
Indeed, at public universities like the one where I serve as a professor and a law dean, it is somewhat ironic (but clearly true) that, as far as the First Amendment is concerned, students have greater First Amendment freedoms than the professors who are charged with teaching them about the First Amendment.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… [read post]
9 Oct 2019, 9:01 pm
Earlier this month Sacramento-based federal district judge Morrison England issued a preliminary injunction blocking implementation of California’s recently enacted law that denies ballot access to presidential (and gubernatorial) candidates who have chosen not to release their tax returns. [read post]
