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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]
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]
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]
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]
9 Aug 2011, 12:37 pm
Gibbons Addison, Note, A proposed wealth distribution system based on the underlying premise of revenue sharing in American pro sports, 89 TEXAS LAW REVIEW 1179 (2011) Vikram David Amar, The NCAA as regulator, litigant, and state actor, 52 BOSTON COLLEGE LAW REVIEW 415 (2011) Andrew D. [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]
11 Oct 2016, 3:44 am
In Justia’s Verdict blog, Vikram Amar also discusses Manuel, observing that “once we say (as we have) that the Fourth Amendment protects not only against a wrongful initial arrest, but also the time between arrest and indictment, it is not at all clear why an indictment would cause its protection to vanish. [read post]
22 Apr 2014, 9:01 pm
Three prior Verdict columns—two by Professor Vikram Amar (here and here) and one by me—explained why the result reached by the appeals court in Schuette is puzzling, at least at first blush. [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]
4 Apr 2012, 7:42 am
” In an op-ed for the Los Angeles Times Vikram Amar and Alan Brownstein argue that “[t]here is no intellectually honest basis for concluding that the individual mandate will create a steeper slope less susceptible to judicial or political handholds and footholds than those slopes that already exist under current and accepted doctrine. [read post]
25 Apr 2024, 9:00 am
Vikram Amar suggested there were indeed problems. [read post]
27 Nov 2011, 9:19 am
The Senate and the Constitution Vikram D. [read post]
29 Oct 2020, 9:02 pm
Holm.In addition, here on Verdict yesterday, Dean Vikram Amar wrote a brilliant column that—without even relying on Smiley—showed that the term “legislature” in Article II (and, for that matter, in Article I in a related context) does not mean “the legislature acting alone” but “the state’s lawmaking process as a whole. [read post]
9 Jan 2024, 9:01 pm
[A new source in the debate over Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment.] [read post]
8 Feb 2021, 9:00 pm
Faced with a blizzard of illogical, strange, bad-faith arguments coming from Senate Republicans in advance of Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial, one might think that there has to be at least something to their arguments. [read post]
27 Apr 2022, 9:01 pm
Supposedly, this would have created enough time for Republican-led state legislatures to certify slates of Trump electors in states that Joe Biden won—relying on a constitutionally flawed theory that my Verdict colleague Vikram Amar recently debunked at length.The underlying idea, however, did not in fact rely on creating rogue slates of electors at all. [read post]
19 Feb 2020, 9:01 pm
As my Verdict colleague (and Dean of the University of Illinois’s law school) Vikram Amar wrote earlier this week, that is in a trivial sense an accurate statement of the bare bones meaning of the Constitution, but that open-ended power has generally been constrained by norms and, ultimately, by the threat of impeachment, conviction, and removal from office.But what does a country look like when the President has no use for norms—or anything else that might stop him… [read post]
