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President Biden will soon sign into law the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), which provides $750 billion in funding and major federal policy changes impacting the U.S. energy, environment, healthcare and tax sectors. [read post]

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Oregon Case Reaffirms Both Breadth of the Clemency Power and the Primacy of Politics in Controlling Its Exercise

14 Aug 2022, 9:01 pm by Austin Sarat

”This conception of clemency is continuous with a line of cases going back to the first United States Supreme Court case on clemency in 1833.That case, United States v. [read post]

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Five Years after “Unite the Right”: Reflections on Charlottesville for Today’s Threat Landscape

12 Aug 2022, 5:55 am by Nicholas Rasmussen

Five years ago today, white supremacist extremists from across the United States traveled to Charlottesville, Virginia for the “Unite the Right” rally. [read post]

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Camp Lejeune Justice Act of 2022

9 Aug 2022, 12:15 pm by Pete Strom

In part, this was due to the Feres Doctrine (Feres v. the United States, 340 U.S. 135), which prohibits individuals from filing a lawsuit or lawsuit based on injuries during their service. [read post]

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Justice Clarence Thomas' America: Straight, Color-Blind, Religious, and Heavily Armed

9 Aug 2022, 4:30 am by Eric Segall

He also expressly joined Justice Scalia's dissenting opinion analogizing homosexual conduct to bigamy, incest, and prostitution.In both United States v. [read post]

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[Ilya Somin] End Racial Profiling in Immigration Enforcement

6 Aug 2022, 7:25 am by Ilya Somin

United States (1944), which had allowed the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. [read post]

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[Eugene Volokh] Should the Law Limit Private-Employer-Imposed Speech Restrictions? Some Other Reasons Why

3 Aug 2022, 5:01 am by Eugene Volokh

" United States v. [read post]

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[Ilya Somin] The Conservative Case for Sanctuary Cities and States

2 Aug 2022, 2:22 pm by Ilya Somin

The first was that sanctuaries beat the administration at the Supreme Court in June of that year; technically, the justices declined to hear United States v. [read post]

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E Unum Pluribus: Comparative Textualism & Constitutional Faiths

2 Aug 2022, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger

Consider the now infamous case, United States v. [read post]

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United States Supreme Court Series: 45 of the most significant decisions (2 of 45 – Gibbons v. Ogden)

1 Aug 2022, 9:35 am by Judge Alan F. Pendleton (Retired)

The decision of the Supreme Court was written and delivered by America’s fourth Chief Justice John Marshall. [read post]

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Early Edition: August 1, 2022

1 Aug 2022, 4:58 am by Emma Snell

“There should be a clear legal recognition of Russia as a state sponsor of terrorism,” Zelenskyy said. [read post]