Search for: "Vikram David Amar"
Results 221 - 240
of 472
Sorted by Relevance
|
Sort by Date
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]
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]
27 Sep 2021, 9:01 pm
The right of abortion is one of the most contentious political and legal issues in the United States today. [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]
28 Jun 2021, 9:01 pm
In this—the second—installment in our series on McConchie v. [read post]
21 May 2015, 9:01 pm
A few weeks ago the Supreme Court handed down an important yet under-noticed case, Williams-Yulee v. [read post]
29 Aug 2013, 9:01 pm
My biweekly column slot this week roughly coincides with the beginning of the new academic year at most law schools across the country. [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]
15 Jul 2018, 9:01 pm
Now that Silicon Valley venture capitalist Tim Draper has submitted a sufficient number of signatures for his bid to split California into three separate states—Cal3, as it is called—to qualify for the November general election ballot, commentators are beginning to discuss the political and legal obstacles the measure faces—hurdles I flagged and analyzed in a number of Verdict columns, including here and here.Among the legal stumbling blocks currently being talked about is the… [read post]
17 Jul 2014, 9:01 pm
Legal and political commentators have already spent thousands of hours on how best to understand Justice Alito’s majority opinion in Burwell v. [read post]
28 Aug 2014, 9:01 pm
A few months ago, I wrote about an effort by the California legislature to undo an unwise (but duly enacted) voter initiative involving immigration policy. [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]
5 Jun 2014, 9:01 pm
While many analysts this month are understandably focused on the blockbuster rulings that are due from the Supreme Court in June—the back end of the Supreme Court litigation process, if you will—in my column today I introduce and briefly analyze the front end of three cases on which the Court has granted review for the next Term, which begins this fall. [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]
14 Nov 2019, 9:01 pm
Last week Mississippi voters went to the polls to elect a new governor. [read post]
25 Jul 2016, 9:01 pm
A few weeks ago, the U.S. [read post]
