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14 Jul 2016, 9:01 pm
So the idea of President Obama pardoning Clinton while he still has the power is not entirely fanciful.Follow @prof_amar Vikram David Amar is the Iwan Foundation Professor of Law and the Dean at the University of Illinois College of Law. [read post]
1 Jan 2024, 9:02 pm
Just before Christmas, the Wisconsin Supreme Court issued an important ruling that invalidated the district lines (enacted by state legislators and the governor) that had been in use for elections for state legislative elections. [read post]
31 Jul 2013, 9:01 pm
In the space below, I continue to analyze what will—and what should—happen to California’s voter-adopted ban on same-sex marriage, Proposition 8, in the wake of the U.S. [read post]
5 Jun 2018, 7:02 pm
But Akhil and Vikram Amar have cogently argued that the Act is in fact unconstitutional inasmuch as the Constitution requires that the Congress designate an "officer" of the U.S. to succeed to a vacant presidency, and members of Congress are simply not such "officers. [read post]
16 Jun 2016, 9:01 pm
Donald Trump’s calls for the judge presiding over the federal fraud lawsuit against Trump University, Gonzalo Curiel, to remove himself from the case because of ethnicity-inspired bias against Mr. [read post]
17 Jan 2013, 9:01 pm
In my column this week, I explore an important First Amendment free speech ruling handed down at the end of December by the California Supreme Court. [read post]
20 Jun 2013, 9:01 pm
As millions of people eagerly await next week’s Supreme Court action in Hollingsworth v. [read post]
8 Nov 2022, 9:01 pm
Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission), Akhil Amar explored the more general phenomenon of words and phrases that recur in the Constitution. [read post]
17 Dec 2015, 9:01 pm
How Seriously to Take Mismatch Theory We stress (and one of us, Dean Amar, has written over the years) that we do not believe the case for mismatch theory has been empirically made; there is scholarship going both ways, and much more scholarship to be done. [read post]
1 Mar 2023, 9:01 pm
In my last column, Part One in this series, I offered some observations about the increasingly loud and frequent criticisms of the US News rankings systems for law (and medical) schools that have been voiced in recent months by some of the nation’s best-known (and generally most highly rated) professional schools themselves. [read post]
12 May 2020, 9:00 pm
COVID-19 has (rightly) pushed from the headlines almost every political controversy lacking a coronavirus angle. [read post]
1 Dec 2022, 9:01 pm
For many practical purposes, we all must accept the meaning of the Constitution to be what the U.S. [read post]
15 Apr 2021, 9:01 pm
A few weeks back, in Meriwether v. [read post]
7 Dec 2014, 9:01 pm
In Part One of this two-part series, I contended that the reading of the Obamacare statute offered by the plaintiffs in the important King v. [read post]
29 May 2023, 9:01 pm
A fast-moving lawsuit filed and ruled upon last week by a federal district judge highlights fundamental and recurring flaws in the judicial treatment of First Amendment freedom of expression, with plenty of blame to go around among various actors in our constitutional system.The dispute arose at Grand Valley High, a rural public high school about 45 miles from Grand Junction, Colorado. [read post]
16 Mar 2022, 9:01 pm
U.S. [read post]
9 Aug 2021, 9:01 pm
At the beginning of this month, former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich filed suit pro se (that is, by himself rather than through a lawyer on his behalf) in federal district court in Chicago to block the implementation of the Illinois State Senate’s decision over a decade ago to ban him from holding any state or local public office in Illinois for the rest of his life. [read post]
24 Jan 2018, 9:01 pm
The blockbuster movie The Post tells a very important real-life story about the efforts of the journalists and leaders of the Washington Post (including Katherine Graham, the first female head of a major American newspaper) and the New York Times to publish parts of a collection of classified documents (the “Pentagon Papers”) detailing non-public information about America’s controversial involvement in the Vietnam War. [read post]
4 Oct 2018, 9:01 pm
Earlier this week, California Governor Jerry Brown signed into law SB 826, a landmark measure that requires each publicly held corporation whose principal executive offices are located in California to have, by the end of 2019, at least one woman on its board of directors. [read post]
9 Feb 2017, 9:01 pm
With many eyes this week on the Ninth Circuit litigation challenging President Trump’s Executive Order regulating entry into the U.S. by nationals of seven Middle Eastern and African countries, less noticed but potentially as important is a separate lawsuit (San Francisco v. [read post]
