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18 Feb 2010, 9:42 am by Erin Miller
Whites and Black in the United States on the same school benches,” was the headline in Afrique Nouvelle, a newspaper in French West Africa (now Senegal). [read post]
8 Jun 2016, 6:15 am by Marty Lederman
Within days, every important state boxing commission in the nation had followed suit, effectively preventing Ali from fighting in the United States. [read post]
9 Oct 2020, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
So long as the South remained a one-party region and the black vote was effectively suppressed, the principled incentive to use either district-based or proportional schemes in other states was diminished. [read post]
3 Apr 2016, 12:30 am by Emily Prifogle
Williams discusses Defenders of the Unborn: The Pro-Life Movement Before Roe v. [read post]
23 Feb 2023, 9:01 pm by Austin Sarat
Those challenges have alleged that Black defendants are more likely than White defendants to get death sentences, even when they commit comparable crimes.In 1972, the United States Supreme Court’s Furman v. [read post]
2 Feb 2023, 6:30 am by John Mikhail
The Constitution of the United States has been called the world’s most important legal document. [read post]
2 Jun 2010, 2:53 am by SHG
  It's a 5-4 decision, thus leaving the rights protected by our Constitution in the hands of a single individual, Justice Anthony Kennedy, whose individual views more than any other dictate the fundamental law of the United States of America. [read post]
27 Dec 2022, 9:01 pm by Austin Sarat
The last half century has witnessed extraordinary, almost unimaginable, changes in how Americans think about the death penalty.Fifty years ago, in 1972, the United States Supreme Court brought a temporary halt to capital punishment in Furman v. [read post]
2 Feb 2024, 9:30 pm by ernst
  Scalia, J., thought Presidents were "officers of the United States" (Lawfare). [read post]
1 Mar 2024, 5:16 pm by Tom Ginsburg
First, it is focused quite directly on the law in action, suggesting that the true functional law is Lynch’s rather than that of the United States. [read post]
3 Sep 2009, 9:07 pm
John Bogle AARP & Consumer Federation of America National Association of Shareholder and Consumer Attorneys North American Securities Administrators Association Professors Deborah DeMott and Mark Ascher Professors Robert Litan, Robert Mason, and Ian Ayres The United States Even by Supreme Court standards, this collection appears to be a large, impressive, and remarkable array of contending forces for a business law case. [read post]
28 May 2020, 9:01 pm by Austin Sarat
Ramirez, Justice William Rehnquist said that Section 2 of the Fourteenth Amendment – which was arguably intended to protect the voting rights of freed slaves by sanctioning states that disenfranchised them – exempts disenfranchisement based on a felony conviction. [read post]
10 Apr 2013, 12:00 pm by Karen Tani
Leading scholars will offer brief reflections on the long history of black freedom movements, their significance to United States history more generally, and their relevance for today. [read post]