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21 Jan 2020, 9:01 pm
Last week the Virginia legislature ratified the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), thus becoming the 38th state to do so and satisfying Article V’s threshold (three quarters of the states) for an amendment to become part of the Constitution. [read post]
24 Jan 2017, 9:01 pm
The Supreme Court recently added sixteen new cases to its docket. [read post]
9 Aug 2016, 9:01 pm
Dorf is the Robert S. [read post]
17 Feb 2019, 9:01 pm
After Congress denied him most of the funding he requested for a border wall last week, President Trump declared a national emergency, thereby invoking power to shift funds that were originally appropriated for other purposes. [read post]
8 Dec 2020, 9:01 pm
In his final months in office, President Trump and his administration have made a variety of audacious personnel and policy moves that aim to affect the course of individual lives and government operations well into the future. [read post]
23 Nov 2020, 9:01 pm
The welcome news that two companies, Pfizer and Moderna, have apparently created safe and effective vaccines against COVID-19 raises immediate questions about distribution. [read post]
16 Feb 2020, 9:01 pm
Returning to the United States from a family vacation abroad recently, I jealously watched some of my fellow travelers zip through immigration and customs as my party trudged slowly along in the queue to the kiosks. [read post]
6 Dec 2021, 9:01 pm
During last week’s oral argument in Dobbs v. [read post]
9 Jan 2017, 9:01 pm
Last week Chief Justice John Roberts recused himself from a patent case that was argued in December when he discovered that his financial holdings created a potential bias. [read post]
2 Feb 2020, 9:01 pm
Late last month, the Supreme Court heard oral argument in Espinoza v. [read post]
23 Nov 2021, 9:01 pm
Dorf is the Robert S. [read post]
20 Feb 2018, 9:01 pm
Last week’s horrific mass shooting at a Florida high school quickly led to an all-too-familiar pattern of “thoughts and prayers,” calls for gun control measures, counter-assertions that such calls improperly “politicize” a tragedy, and the dissection of the shooter’s background, with special focus on his mental health. [read post]
9 Jan 2018, 9:01 pm
Last week, Attorney General Sessions rescinded an Obama administration policy under which the Department of Justice did not target law enforcement efforts against marijuana cultivation, distribution, or use that is permissible in the states in which it occurred—either for medical or recreational purposes. [read post]
1 Jan 2023, 9:01 pm
George Santos—who is scheduled to take the oath of office as a new member of Congress tomorrow—lied to the voters about nearly his entire biography. [read post]
10 Dec 2019, 9:01 pm
Last year, in response to Donald Trump’s claim that an adverse judicial ruling was wrong because it was issued by an “Obama judge,” Chief Justice John Roberts replied that the federal judiciary does not consist of “Obama judges or Trump judges, Bush judges or Clinton judges. [read post]
19 Sep 2017, 9:01 pm
Last week, the Israel Supreme Court ruled that the government’s policy of exempting Haredim (ultra-Orthodox Jews) from military service amounted to unconstitutional discrimination. [read post]
17 Jan 2023, 9:01 pm
Hamline University, a liberal arts college in Minnesota, has been the scene of recent controversy following the university administration’s dismissal of adjunct professor Erika Lopez Prater, whose actions the university’s vice president for inclusive excellence publicly condemned as “undeniably inconsiderate, disrespectful and Islamophobic. [read post]
21 Apr 2024, 9:01 pm
Having apparently learned a lesson from the fate that befell the presidents of Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania after they testified before Congress last December, last week Columbia University President Minouche Shafik gave an unequivocal “yes” answer to the question from Representative Elise Stefanik that tripped up Shafik’s erstwhile Ivy League peers: whether calls for genocide of Jews would violate the campus code of conduct.To be sure, some of Shafik’s other… [read post]
15 Oct 2019, 9:01 pm
History does not repeat, but it rhymes (according to a maxim sometimes but apparently falsely attributed to Mark Twain). [read post]
2 Aug 2022, 9:01 pm
Having upended constitutional law and American life with regard to abortion, firearms regulation, and separation of church and state last Term, during the Term that begins in October the Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority will turn its attention to another hot-button issue in the culture wars: race-based affirmative action in admissions to colleges and universities. [read post]
