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16 Feb 2023, 9:25 am by Irene
By seventh grade, students are introduced to the (evil) “European colonizer” and they will scrutinize how liberty, freedom and democracy were applied to different Americans on the basis of religion, socioeconomic status or class, race, and gender. [read post]
16 Feb 2023, 5:55 am by Fionnuala Ní Aoláin
Instead of finding legally sound solutions to their entrenched and protracted arbitrary deprivation of liberty in inhumane conditions, including repatriations to their countries of origin for those who should receive a fair trial for offenses committed, the practice of arbitrary detention is becoming entrenched. [read post]
16 Feb 2023, 4:30 am by Lawrence Solum
However, three distinct historical facts deprive these events of the sort of Constitutional status Wu proposes. [read post]
14 Feb 2023, 5:01 am by Amichai Cohen, Yuval Shany
On Jan. 12, Rothman presented to his committee a draft bill that seeks to reform the status of government legal advisers (the fourth suggested change). [read post]
9 Feb 2023, 9:05 pm by Zoe Stern
Supreme Court decisions concerning religious liberty undermine state and local antidiscrimination laws. [read post]
8 Feb 2023, 5:28 am by Will Baude
Finally, there is an amicus brief from the Liberty Justice Center that relies heavily on a 1935 case called Hopkins Federal Savings and Loan v. [read post]
6 Feb 2023, 6:42 pm by Josh Blackman
After all, it "secure[s] the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity. [read post]
5 Feb 2023, 7:42 am by Lawrence Solum
That is, the representatives are deprived of information about the talents, abilities, and socio-economic status of the parties they represent. [read post]
5 Feb 2023, 5:20 am
Said  John Lynch, the former governor of New Hampshire, quoted in "Democrats Overhaul Party’s Primary Calendar, Upending a Political Tradition/The proposal radically reshapes the way the party picks its presidential nominees, putting more racially diverse states at the front of the line" (NYT).The headline says the Democrats have already done the upending, overhauling, and radical reshaping, but isn't it merely an offer that the states may accept or decline? [read post]
4 Feb 2023, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
In Goodridge, Chief Justice Marshall  suggested the convergence of federal and state constitutional protection while also echoing Justice Brennan in speaking of the Massachusetts Constitution as a font of protection of individual liberty: “The Massachusetts Constitution protects matters of personal liberty against government incursion as zealously, and often more so, than does the Federal Constitution, even where both Constitutions employ essentially the same language. [read post]
3 Feb 2023, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
If nothing else, Greenwalt’s graft conveyed a sense of the immense privilege that comes with the liberty to read, think, and write as a vocation. [read post]
2 Feb 2023, 4:35 pm by Eugene Volokh
"[A] person could be in one day and out the next: the moment he was convicted of a violent crime or suffered the onset of mental illness, his rights would be stripped as a self-executing consequence of his new status. [read post]
 The Utah division of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) condemned the law in an open letter addressed to Cox, stating it discriminated on the basis of sex and transgender status. [read post]
30 Jan 2023, 7:37 am by Guest Author
By strategically muting the government’s Chevron arguments, the Solicitor General decreases the likelihood the Supreme Court would employ (or even acknowledge) the doctrine, and the status quo is preserved. [read post]
30 Jan 2023, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
Constitution became deeply joined to what Swedish sociologist Gunnar Myrdal famously labeled the “American creed”—a vision of the U.S. as standing for the promise of equal liberty for all. [read post]
26 Jan 2023, 8:00 am by Guest Blogger
  They do adopt some version, however complex, of “separation of powers” and, more to the point, define their purpose, as delineated in the Preamble to the United States Constitution, as securing the “Blessings of Liberty. [read post]
26 Jan 2023, 6:36 am by Alex Phipps
Defendant was subsequently indicted and convicted of indecent liberties with a child in October of 2021. [read post]
26 Jan 2023, 5:55 am by Eileen B. Hershenov
Rather, they meant that Jews would not succeed in their alleged plot to replace them with the “non-white” Americans they claimed were surging across the border, or with Black and brown Americans whom they saw gaining status and taking positions of power away from them. [read post]
24 Jan 2023, 6:30 am by Stephen Griffin
  As with the debate over internal improvements, in debates over the constitutionality of territorial expansion, states’ rights, and the status of slavery nineteenth-century Americans came to rely on non-amendment or “informal” means to make (or at least advocate, in the case of proposals not adopted) significant legal changes to the Constitution. [read post]