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5 Dec 2013, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
”  A state legislature’s constitutional inability to favor particular federal legislative candidates and disfavor others explains why the Supreme Court held a dozen years ago in Cook v. [read post]
Such state laws are often called Religious Freedom Restoration Acts, or RFRAs—named and patterned after the federal RRFA adopted by Congress after the Supreme Court’s 1990 decision in Employment Division v. [read post]
5 Mar 2012, 2:00 am by Steve Lombardi
v=NsJHqstPuNo     UPDATE: Governor Branstad signed the bill into law. [read post]
9 Feb 2017, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar and Michael Schaps
” In challenging this federal directive, San Francisco relies on principles of federalism as expounded in Printz v. [read post]
17 Oct 2022, 11:35 am by David Kopel
The first law review article to note the funding was written in 1998 by Carl Bogus, a law professor at Roger Williams College who advocates for gun control. [read post]
27 Jul 2014, 9:03 am by Schachtman
  With fear and trembling, and sometimes sickness not quite unto death, federal and state judges, and lawyers on both sides of the “v,” must now do more than attack, defend, and evaluate expert witnesses on simplistic surrogates for the truth, such as personal bias or qualifications. [read post]
7 Sep 2020, 10:04 am by Paul Rosenzweig, Vishnu Kannan
In short, President Trump has led a wrecking crew (aided and abetted by William Barr and Mitch McConnell) that has severely damaged American legal norms of behavior. [read post]
31 Jan 2013, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
What the original draftsmen (that is, the people who actually wrote the words) subjectively intended might be evidence of what the words meant at the time, but any divergence between the drafters’ subjective intentions and the most likely understandings of those words at the time of enactment would be resolved in favor of the latter. [read post]
30 Nov 2012, 11:48 pm by Peter Tillers
The theories of evidence and inference that now dominate the law are firmly planted in the so-called rationalist tradition of evidence scholarship, a tradition that has been masterfully described by William Twining.3 In that tradition, it is axiomatic that all knowledge of facts is merely probable and always uncertain. [read post]