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14 Nov 2011, 6:23 am
At Verdict, Vikram David Amar discusses the Court’s summary reversal of the Ninth Circuit last week in the habeas case of Cavazos v. [read post]
3 Sep 2019, 9:01 pm
Given the difficulty of amending the Constitution, it will not likely be abolished any time soon.Accordingly, reformers have been seeking to circumvent the Electoral College without a constitutional amendment, based on an idea originally proposed by law professors including my fellow Verdict columnist Dean Vikram Amar. [read post]
29 Aug 2023, 9:01 pm
As Professor (and then-Dean) Vikram Amar and Professor Jason Mazzone noted on Verdict, Dean Martinez sensibly committed to educating rather than punishing the students who had disrupted the talk.Dean Martinez’s letter also blamed “staff members who should have enforced university policies [but] failed to do so, and instead intervened in inappropriate ways that are not aligned with the university’s commitment to free speech. [read post]
30 Jun 2014, 9:14 am
Burwell).In a 5-4 opinion by Justice Samuel Alito, the Court held that the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) permits a closely held for-profit corporation to deny its employees the health coverage of contraceptives to which the employees are otherwise entitled by the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (ACA), based on the religious objections of the corporation’s owners.Here is some commentary tracking the progress of these cases before the Court’s… [read post]
31 Jan 2022, 6:00 am
Professors Akhil Reed Amar and Vikram David Amar have put forward an Intermediate View: the elected President is an "officer of the United States," but members of Congress are not. [read post]
28 Jun 2023, 5:34 pm
I wrote an amicus brief in this case with Yale Sterling Professor of Law, Akhil Reed Amar and Professor Vikram D. [read post]
17 Jan 2010, 9:46 am
It is true, incidentally, that Akhil and Vikram Amar have written a wonderful article plausibly arguing that the Succession in Office Act is unconstitutional, and I believe that it is perhaps even worse than unconstitutional, i.e., monumentally stupid. [read post]
3 Oct 2021, 1:33 pm
Professor Vikram David Amar wrote in 2004 that Justice Stevens’ position is “quite scary” and could result in a Catch-22 for plaintiffs: “Give up an activity that they believe (and a district court agrees) is constitutionally protected, or risk criminal prosecution down the road if the district court is reversed. [read post]
21 Jul 2021, 6:01 am
Professors Akhil Reed Amar and Vikram David Amar have put forward an Intermediate View: the elected President is an "officer of the United States," but members of Congress are not. [read post]
11 Jul 2010, 1:12 pm
In fact, some of these legal experts recommend a single term of 18 years for Supreme Court Justices, including Akhil Reed Amar and Vikram David Amar writing in Should U.S. [read post]
3 Oct 2021, 1:33 pm
Professor Vikram David Amar wrote in 2004 that Justice Stevens’ position is “quite scary” and could result in a Catch-22 for plaintiffs: “Give up an activity that they believe (and a district court agrees) is constitutionally protected, or risk criminal prosecution down the road if the district court is reversed. [read post]
15 Aug 2010, 8:10 am
“If the proponents don’t have standing to appeal, then it’s entirely plausible that the courts will rule that they did not properly have standing to go to trial,” Vikram Amar, a law professor at the University of California at Davis, told TIME Thursday evening. [read post]
25 Mar 2020, 10:38 am
Akhil and Vikram Amar responded with an article making the case that legislative succession was unconstitutional. [read post]
4 Jun 2013, 9:01 pm
As Professor Vikram Amar explained in a column here on Verdict earlier this year, a state law that requires the governor to choose someone from the same party as the departed Senator appears to violate the core historical purpose and the language of the Seventeenth Amendment. [read post]
25 Oct 2012, 9:01 pm
With the Obama-Romney election nearly upon us, my column today updates readers on the status of various presidential election reform efforts (a topic about which I have written columns for this site in the past). [read post]
30 Jun 2022, 10:50 am
As Vikram Amar and Akhil Amar explain in a 2022 article, at the Founding, “the public meaning of state ‘legislature’ was clear and well accepted . . . : A state ‘legislature’ was . . . an entity created and constrained by its state constitution. [read post]
5 Jul 2022, 9:01 pm
For example, Amar approved of the Dobbs opinion even before it was officially released. [read post]
7 Feb 2024, 7:47 pm
Professor Akhil Reed Amar and Professor Vikram Amar Retreat From Their "Global" Rule for the "Offices" and "Officers" of the Constitution (1/27/24). [read post]
6 Jul 2012, 7:12 am
Vikram Amar at Verdict presents a list of ten important take-away points from the decision. [read post]
12 Dec 2011, 5:50 pm
As Vikram David Amar and Alan Brownstein — law professors at UC Davis — argue, unless a repeal of the 17th Amendment was accompanied by prohibiting the people of each state from voicing their preferences for the benefit of state legislatures, ‘popular election or something close to it may be likely to persist. [read post]
