Search for: "U.S. CONGRESS" Results 3801 - 3820 of 58,512
Sort by Relevance | Sort by Date
RSS Subscribe: 20 results | 100 results
19 Jun 2023, 11:39 am by Josh Blackman
Justice Thomas countered that "when the Founders referred to Indian 'affairs,' they were often referring to diplomatic relations—going far afield of their references to Indian 'commerce.'" Randolph's Bank of U.S. [read post]
19 Jun 2023, 8:34 am by Daniel M. Kowalski
There is no need for decade long backlogs in the legal immigration system , and Congress must pass legislation to infuse more visas in each category as well as eliminate per country limits. [read post]
19 Jun 2023, 7:22 am by Eugene Volokh
Congress was concerned that licenses would become concentrated around major cities and would thus leave remote and less populated areas of the country without service. [read post]
19 Jun 2023, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
All these make Professor Fritz’s book a worthy contribution to the literature of the constitutional history and development of U.S. ideas of federalism, by adding to our historical knowledge base about federalism.I found greater value in Monitoring American Federalism as a historical narrative than as an argument that reframes our thinking about federalism. [read post]
19 Jun 2023, 6:00 am by Guest Blogger
Without an Indian Affairs Clause, the Constitution does not provide Congress with plenary power over tribes, but instead allows interaction and regulation through the Indian Commerce Clause, Treaty Clause, and War and Peace Powers, among other enumerated powers.Once Congress stopped treating with tribes in 1871, as Justice Gorsuch puts it, the Court made a “doctrinal misstep” in U.S. v. [read post]
18 Jun 2023, 9:01 pm by Michael C. Dorf
As Treasury Secretary, Hamilton proposed, Congress enacted, and President George Washington signed legislation creating what we would now call an independent agency (the Sinking Fund Commission) with authority to purchase federal debt. [read post]
18 Jun 2023, 11:10 am by Stuart Kaplow
The case is hugely significant not only because it is the first of its kind to actually reach a trial court, and first in a growing trend of individual citizen plaintiffs suing companies, state governments, and even national governments on climate change claims, but the case is also key at a time when a divided Congress cannot act on climate change statutes, and the executive branch will not act on climate change regulations (possibly out of concern if agencies have the authority to go as… [read post]
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) released a report Friday alleging that the Minneapolis Police Department (MPD) “engage[d] in a pattern or practice of conduct in violation of the U.S. [read post]
17 Jun 2023, 7:57 am by Matt Tait
One is that it is a fundamental norm rooted in the rule-of-law; another is that it is an emergent norm rooted in historical practice, either since the beginning of the Republic, or in some alternative formulations, a modern emergent norm that has been U.S. practice since the pardon of Nixon. [read post]
16 Jun 2023, 2:50 pm by Cindy Cohn
It’s to keep secrets from Americans, Congress, and public courts. [read post]
16 Jun 2023, 12:54 pm by Chris Skelton
One legislative agency is the Library of Congress, which provides a research and information hub for Congress. [read post]
16 Jun 2023, 12:25 pm by Eric Fruits
A bill to renew auction authority passed out of the U.S. [read post]