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9 Oct 2020, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
As Keyssar observes of the failure of the proportionalist Lodge-Gossett reform of 1950 (led by the liberal Republican senator Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts and the Texas segregationist representative Ed Lee Gossett): “an institutional reform that, in itself, had long been regarded as democratic, might well have anti-democratic consequences in a nation containing a large region that lacked universal suffrage” (164). [read post]
29 Jul 2020, 5:04 pm by Josh Blackman
[After two days of hero worship for Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Gorsuch, day three dumps on the Junior Justice.] [read post]
20 Mar 2020, 6:00 am by Mark Graber
  Georgia declared implementing the Supreme Court’s decision in Chisholm v. [read post]
16 Jan 2020, 12:16 pm by Hilary Hurd
Kent (Southern District of Texas) was impeached for sexually assaulting his female legal aides and then lying about it to the FBI and the Justice Department. [read post]
8 Nov 2019, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
But obstruction of Congress is now all but certain to be introduced as well, just as it was five decades ago when the House Judiciary Committee voted for articles of impeachment against then-President Richard Nixon. [read post]
18 Oct 2019, 6:30 am by Sandy Levinson
  Black and Douglas were, I was certain, fighting the good fight, as clearly evidenced in the Pentagon Papers case and their opposition to Richard Nixon and his associates. [read post]
11 Oct 2019, 7:12 am by Jay Pinho
Then, it was back to Texas for more appearances at presidential centers. [read post]
24 Aug 2019, 6:30 am by Dan Ernst
[We're moving this up, because we've received an updated version of the program. [read post]
9 Apr 2019, 5:03 am by Stephanie Zable
Article I, Section 9, of the Constitution prohibits “Bill[s] of Attainder,” laws that, under Supreme Court precedent, “legislatively determine[] guilt and inflict[] punishment upon an identifiable individual without provision of the protections of a judicial trial” (Nixon v. [read post]
20 Jan 2019, 11:03 pm by Steve Lubet
  He was thwarted, however, when a Senate filibuster blocked Johnson’s nomination of his Texas crony, Abe Fortas, thus allowing President Nixon to appoint Warren Burger as Chief Justice in 1969. [read post]
30 Dec 2018, 6:28 am
Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1983.Hersh, Seymour. [read post]