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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]
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]
25 Apr 2024, 9:00 am
Vikram Amar suggested there were indeed problems. [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]
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]
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]
7 Jun 2023, 9:01 pm
” Hasen argued that as we look with fear toward 2024’s election aftermath, we should [f]orget bonkers accusations about Italy using lasers to manipulate American vote totals and expect white-shoe lawyers with Federalist Society bona fides to argue next time about application of the “independent state legislature” doctrine in an attempt to turn any Republican presidential defeat into victory.My Verdict colleague Vikram Amar is arguably the leading expert on… [read post]
15 May 2023, 9:01 pm
In the space below I offer some initial reactions to a bill that cleared the California Senate Judiciary Committee last month and that has been generating controversy, especially within parts of the South Asian community, in the Golden State. [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]
2 Apr 2013, 9:01 pm
As explained by Professor Vikram Amar in two prior Verdict columns (here and here), the appeals court relied on two Supreme Court precedents—the 1969 case of Hunter v. [read post]
10 Apr 2018, 9:01 pm
In a recent Verdict column, my colleague Vikram Amar discussed the winner-take-all method of determining who is sent to vote for president in the Electoral College. [read post]
3 Sep 2021, 11:40 am
by Neil H. [read post]
Do Law Schools Truly Have to Worry About Students Not Being Able to Handle Real-World Disagreements?
20 Apr 2023, 10:26 am
In my columns, I cited with approval a two-part Verdict series by Illinois Law's Dean Vikram Amar and his colleague Professor Jason Mazzone. [read post]
8 Dec 2023, 9:55 am
I cannot improve on Professor Vikram Amar's Verdict column explaining the meaning of direct and indirect taxes, but the point of the 16th Amendment was to say that even though the Court was wrong, the income tax is no longer subject to its misguided holding: "The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration. [read post]
9 Nov 2020, 9:01 pm
Accordingly, we can separate the plausible scenarios from the hot air.The Challenge Is PreposterousRegular Verdict readers will have learned from an outstanding four-part series by Vikram Amar, Evan Caminker, and Jason Mazzone that the challenge to the ACA the Court hears today rests on a truly preposterous chain of reasoning.In 2010, Congress enacted the ACA, a complex law with some interrelated and many unrelated parts. [read post]
29 Mar 2020, 9:01 pm
In a companion column, Dean Vikram Amar will explore the intriguing possibility that Justice Kagan’s opinion is in some sense really about abortion. [read post]
