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14 Aug 2012, 7:52 pm by John Bellinger
         Four former State Department Legal Advisers (Davis Robinson, Abe Sofaer, William H. [read post]
4 Apr 2014, 8:12 am by John Mikhail
Unless it is treated as surplusage, this second clause indicates that the Constitution vests powers in the Government of the United States that are not merely identical or coextensive with the powers vested in Congress or other Departments or Officers of the United States. [read post]
27 Mar 2014, 1:24 pm by Margaret Wood
  The origin of this doctrine was hammered out in a 1908 United States Supreme Court case, Winters v. [read post]
5 Aug 2024, 6:30 am by John Mikhail
  We have retained a right to recover our slaves in whatever part of America they may take refuge, which is a right we had not before. [read post]
29 Mar 2013, 2:00 pm by Bexis
Bazarsky, The Future of PennsylvaniaProducts Liability as Applied by Federal and State Courts: Covell v. [read post]
13 Sep 2022, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
”  She bases her skepticism in part on her justifiably prize-winning work on the history of racial relations in America. [read post]
20 Jun 2018, 4:10 am by Edith Roberts
United States, in which the court held on Monday that a decision not to grant a proportional sentence reduction does not require a detailed written explanation. [read post]
20 Mar 2022, 9:00 pm by Austin Sarat
”For a brief period in the 1960s and 1970s, courts rejected the “hands off” doctrine and used the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment as a justification to scrutinize and reform the conditions of confinement in America’s prisons.Pugh v Locke, decided in 1976, is one of the most famous examples of this approach. [read post]
25 Feb 2025, 10:51 am by Tom Smith
He summed it up with typical clarity: The Constitution says “the executive power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America. [read post]
14 Sep 2016, 1:46 pm
Tibbs, From Black Power to Prison Power: The Making of Jones v. [read post]
26 Jun 2019, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
Section One straightforwardly provides: The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.Moving beyond the bare text, it is important, even (maybe especially) a hundred years later, to think more about what the Amendment really sought to constitutionally accomplish, and how its full import has not been deeply understood. [read post]