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8 Jan 2023, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
But, as Saul Cornell and Gerry Leonard have recently argued, America prior to the War never escaped the overall description of a “herrenvolk democracy. [read post]
16 Dec 2022, 3:38 am by Chris Seaton
Second, America’s Public Health Jesus declared the United States out of the “pandemic phase—for the moment. [read post]
2 Dec 2022, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
” What is at issue is the degree to which one accepts the Weberian argument that the state necessarily has a monopoly over the means of violence and their legitimate use or whether, instead, one accepts the possibility that “we the people,” viewed as separate from the particular set of institutions called “the state,” might possess both the right to possess arms and, under certain conditions, to rise up in what Locke termed an “appeal to… [read post]
20 Nov 2022, 9:55 am by David Kopel
The brief was on behalf of Professors of Second Amendment Law (including VC's Randy Barnett), Cato Institute, John Locke Foundation, Center to Keep and Bear Arms (Mountain States Legal Foundation), and Independence Institute. [read post]
15 Nov 2022, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
If a state were to pass a law today saying that, say, its governor will decide which slate of electors will represent the state in the Electoral College every four years, that law would not violate the United States Constitution.Now, however, such laws have no prospect of being passed in enough states to guarantee a Republican win in 2024. [read post]
18 Sep 2022, 7:48 am
In the 1960s, K.G.B. officers based in the United States paid agents to paint swastikas on synagogues and desecrate Jewish cemeteries. [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]
7 Jul 2022, 5:01 am by Peter Margulies
MPP entailed removing 70,000 residents of third countries—primarily in Central America—from the United States to Mexico. [read post]
26 Jun 2022, 12:28 am by Bill Henderson
  Note that I write this post during the public hearings for the January 6th Commission, which is faithfully documenting an attempted coup of the United States government that would not have been possible without a rampant populist fervor that continues to this day. [read post]
9 May 2022, 4:26 am by Emma Snell
Secretary of State Antony Blinken has told his Ukrainian counterpart that this progress — marked by Kyiv Embassy charge d’affaires Kristina Kvien’s visit yesterday to commemorate V-E Day — is a testament to Ukraine’s success and Moscow’s failure in the early phase of the war. [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]
4 Feb 2022, 7:01 am by Edward B. Foley
Even worse, some fear that a revised ECA that requires Congress to accept whatever electoral votes a state sent would lock in the subversion of valid votes perpetrated in the state. [read post]