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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]
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]
11 Aug 2019, 9:01 pm
Republican Party leaders and President Trump’s legal team have gone to court to block implementation of California’s newly enacted law that denies ballot access to presidential candidates who have chosen not to release their tax returns. [read post]
8 Oct 2015, 9:01 pm
Last year at the Supreme Court, there was some level of drama about who would win or lose what I (and many other analysts) thought were the major cases; most people expected Justice Kennedy to join (as he did) with the more liberal Justices to recognize a national right of marriage equality for same-sex couples, but folks were less confident about the results in the Obamacare tax subsidies case and the challenge to Arizona’s independent redistricting commission, to name just a few. [read post]
28 Jun 2018, 9:01 pm
Immigration issues have dominated the headlines for the past three weeks, if not longer. [read post]
19 May 2019, 9:01 pm
From the Right and from the Left, legislatures are considering—and in many cases enacting—laws that have no meaningful chance of surviving judicial challenge under the U.S. [read post]
25 Sep 2023, 9:00 pm
Partisan gerrymandering, one of the subjects of the Supreme Court’s important ruling in June in the Moore v. [read post]
4 Oct 2017, 9:01 pm
With all the discussion these days over what public universities and municipalities can and should be doing to handle large, raucous rallies and protests without sacrificing public health and safety, one topic that has been mentioned but not often thoroughly analyzed is what the rules are, or ought to be, when a boisterous and angry crowd “shouts down” a speaker. [read post]
23 Oct 2014, 9:01 pm
Among the interesting U.S. [read post]
24 Jan 2019, 9:01 pm
Last week an Alabama trial court judge (Michael Graffeo) made national news when (literally just minutes before his judicial term expired and he began retirement) he held that the Alabama Memorial Protection Act (AMPA)—which prohibits public jurisdictions within the state from altering or otherwise disturbing public monuments that have been in existence for at least forty years—violated the Fourteenth Amendment free speech and due process rights of the City of Birmingham, which sought to… [read post]
30 Nov 2017, 9:01 pm
Over the next few weeks, law school final exams will be in full swing at almost every law school in the country. [read post]
2 Jun 2021, 9:01 pm
High-level university administrators (say, deans, provosts, chancellors, and presidents)—in both private and public institutions—have been asked with increasing frequency in recent years to issue statements on behalf of the academic units/universities they lead concerning national and world events that certainly involve important topics of discourse but that may not have distinctive relevance to academic institutions. [read post]
31 Oct 2018, 9:01 pm
This three-part series looks at intriguing constitutional questions raised by California’s statutory enactment of SB 826, which requires publicly held corporations with principal executive offices located in California to have a prescribed number of women on their boards of directors. [read post]
7 Feb 2023, 9:00 pm
Prominent rankings of institutions Americans care about are invariably controversial. [read post]
26 Mar 2015, 9:01 pm
In the space below, we analyze some complicated legal questions arising out of a proposed California initiative—the so-called “Sodomite Suppression Act” (SSA)—whose illegality and immorality are not complicated at all. [read post]
27 Dec 2018, 9:01 pm
An interesting and potentially important lawsuit in federal court in Arizona is challenging the way state officials have sought to deal with the vacancy in the US Senate created by Senator McCain’s death four months ago (on August 25, 2018). [read post]
1 Oct 2024, 9:01 pm
Like many states, Mississippi counts absentee ballots that arrive at election offices by mail after Election Day—up to five business days after—so long as the ballots are postmarked on or before Election Day itself. [read post]
26 Sep 2024, 9:01 pm
This year’s election is unsurprisingly generating a deluge of voting-related lawsuits in the runup to November. [read post]
13 Oct 2024, 9:01 pm
News outlets this month are reporting on a flurry of election-related lawsuits that are pending in the nation’s state and federal courts. [read post]
