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24 Sep 2020, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
In the Bethune-Hill case in Virginia, 12 legislative districts packed to be majority-black (all more than 55% black voting-age population) were redrawn to become 17 ability-to-elect districts, with 9 districts in the range of 30% to 50% black voting-age population. [read post]
22 Sep 2020, 4:00 am by Comunicaciones_MJ
Así fue cómo Thurgood Marshall —el destacado jurista, activista y principal abogado del caso Brown v. [read post]
21 Sep 2020, 10:40 am by Ellis Cose
”Leslie Mehta, the young black attorney who was legal director of the ACLU of Virginia when it took the Kessler case, seemed confident, when I interviewed her in the aftermath of Heyer’s death, that she had made the right decision. [read post]
18 Sep 2020, 6:26 pm by Amy Howe
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a trailblazer who fought for gender equality as a lawyer and became a beloved hero of the progressive movement as a justice, died on Friday of complications from pancreatic cancer. [read post]
16 Sep 2020, 8:12 am by Alicia Maule
Virginia (2002) is that they present a special risk of wrongful conviction. [read post]
16 Sep 2020, 6:30 am by Sandy Levinson
  (This is the deep meaning of the fact, for example, that four of the American states—Massachusetts, Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Kentucky (originally, of course, part of Virginia)—styled themselves as “commonwealths,” i.e., communities organized around the seeking of a common good. [read post]
14 Sep 2020, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
Above all that, it was clearly wrongly decided, and illustrates how some judges have bad interpretive instincts when it comes to navigating the tricky but ultra-important voting rights realm.The case, Texas Democratic Party v. [read post]
22 Aug 2020, 4:00 am by Josh Blackman
The Supreme Court considered the constitutionality of his prosecution for cross burning in Virginia v. [read post]
20 Aug 2020, 4:41 am by Greg Lambert and Marlene Gebauer
But if you do choose to pre-record yourself nodding and sipping coffee, spend your free time listening to Marlene’s summary of the recent copyright litigation of Thomson Reuters v. [read post]
17 Aug 2020, 12:00 pm by Terri Nappier
After the Supreme Court’s decision in Shelby County v. [read post]
7 Aug 2020, 6:57 am by Richard Garnett
Board of Education, Justice Hugo Black of Alabama presented as canonical a potted and partial history of America’s religious-freedom experience in which a Virginia controversy and Jefferson’s passing reference to a “wall of separation between Church and State” — and not the broad range of views about the meaning of disestablishment — were foundational and controlling. [read post]
5 Aug 2020, 12:00 pm by ernst
Taney's Life in Maryland's Black Belt: Revelations about Dred Scott and the Still Undead Commitment to White Supremacy and Racial Hatred:Roger Taney was born and raised in Maryland’s Black Belt, a region so committed to the institution of slavery that it sought to secede from Maryland and unite with slavery-entrenched Virginia. [read post]