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14 Dec 2017, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
The Court’s decision earlier this month—by a 7-2 vote, with only Justices Ginsburg and Sotomayor dissenting—to let the entirety of the most recent iteration of the so-called travel ban to go into effect pending further judicial review (even though lower courts in two separate challenges had blocked it in part) is a strong indication that, on the merits, the majority of justices will be considerably more deferential to presidential power in this realm than have been the… [read post]
7 Jul 2015, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
’” But in rejecting the argument based on Hawke and its reading of Article V, the majority opinion in AIRC instead relied on two other cases, Ohio ex. rel. [read post]
25 Jul 2016, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
According to the majority: “The excessive agency power that the dissent fears would [absent a strong Chevron deference doctrine] be replaced by chaos. [read post]
19 May 2016, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
Normally a 20-20 tie would be construed as a decision not to ratify (since there wasn’t a majority to ratify). [read post]
13 Mar 2019, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
He is a co-author, along with William Cohen and Jonathan Varat, of a major constitutional law casebook, and a co-author of several volumes of the Wright & Mille [read post]
22 Jun 2012, 12:22 pm by Marie S. Newman
  In the ground-floor gallery, there was a major, comprehensive exhibit devoted to William Butler Yeats, one of Ireland’s greatest poets. [read post]
18 Dec 2018, 6:16 pm by bcuban
Kennedy School of Government, and his Bachelor of Arts summa cum laude from Williams College. [read post]
18 Apr 2019, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
” A majority of the justices held that such “commandeering” of local law enforcement personnel—telling local personnel what they what they must affirmatively do without giving states and localities any choice about whether to assist—violates the Tenth Amendment and the principles of state autonomy that it represents. [read post]
18 Dec 2018, 6:16 pm by bcuban
Kennedy School of Government, and his Bachelor of Arts summa cum laude from Williams College. [read post]
21 Apr 2016, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
In Brazil, a presidential impeachment does not pass the lower house unless two thirds of the members vote to accuse—in the United States (as we saw in the Clinton episode), it takes only a bare majority of the House of Representatives to impeach (even though in both counties it takes two thirds of the upper house, the Senate, to convict in an impeachment proceeding.) [read post]
31 Jul 2013, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
  For decades this route has seemed an unlikely one, because major ballot measures are often very polarizing along party lines, and neither political party has controlled 2/3 of each house of the legislature. [read post]
26 Jul 2018, 9:59 am by Andrew Hamm
” As Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Martin reported in the New York Times before Kavanaugh’s nomination, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky was “concerned about the volume of documents that Judge Kavanaugh has created” in his career, which, Haberman and Martin wrote, “McConnell fears could hand Senate Democrats an opportunity to delay the confirmation vote. [read post]
7 Apr 2016, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
But the same might be true of ticket-splitting between the presidency and Congress; a small number of voters can effectively send a split message from a state even if a majority of voters would prefer a unified message in either direction. [read post]
28 Mar 2013, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
”)  To preserve the integrity of the Rule of Four, the Court has traditionally taken the view that at least one of the Justices who voted to grant review (and more than one, if there were more than four votes to grant) would have to be among the majority who want to DIG the case. [read post]
16 Jan 2014, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
He is a co-author, along with William Cohen and Jonathan Varat, of a major constitutional law casebook, and a co-author of several volumes of the Wright & Miller treatise on federal practice and procedure. [read post]
21 Aug 2018, 1:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
Photographed around 1891 It was approved on July 4, 1898 and signed on July 7 by President William McKinley. [read post]
20 Jun 2013, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
May seems to support my argument), but we need to see whether any, or a majority, of the Justices speak directly to this issue and what they say. [read post]
25 Feb 2016, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
During that overlap, the new majority of Democratic Senators could undo the filibuster rule by a simple majority vote (the so-called nuclear option), and then President Obama could withdraw his intended compromise candidate and push through his first-choice candidate (perhaps Hillary Clinton!) [read post]