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15 Dec 2015, 9:01 pm
As Illinois Law Dean Vikram Amar noted in his Verdict column last week, part of that inquiry seems perverse, or at least ironic: The conservative justices who want to limit race-based affirmative action suggested during the oral argument that because the current version of the TPP only boosts Latino and African American enrollment a little, it may be unnecessary and thus unconstitutional; yet, one would have thought that minimizing the use of race is precisely what it means to… [read post]
11 Jul 2017, 9:01 pm
Professor Vikram Amar argued in an April column that developments since the Jones case could buttress Trump’s argument that a president deserves temporary immunity. [read post]
7 Mar 2013, 9:01 pm
Republican obstructionism is once again controlling Washington. [read post]
26 Jan 2022, 9:01 pm
As Dean Vikram Amar observed here on Verdict in the summer of 2019 on the twenty-fifth anniversary of Breyer’s appointment, he was too far back in line for the best assignments. [read post]
20 Feb 2024, 2:16 pm
[The issues, arguments, and evidence raised by Mikhail has already been addressed by our scholarship. [read post]
25 Sep 2017, 7:04 am
The Foreign Emoluments Clause provides that “no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under [the United States], shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State. [read post]
12 Nov 2020, 9:01 pm
What we are witnessing is not a “tantrum. [read post]
29 Oct 2023, 9:01 pm
Notwithstanding some recent competition, the Law School Admission Test (LSAT) remains the most widely used and accepted standardized test considered by American law schools to admit new students to law school. [read post]
25 Jan 2024, 9:01 pm
Say what you will about Donald Trump, he is a prodigious generator of constitutional law. [read post]
26 Oct 2011, 6:33 am
Vikram Amar – It’s hard for me to imagine that the Court is anxious to take up the merits of this battle between Congress and the President over the dicey question of whether Jerusalem should be considered by the United States to be part of Israel. [read post]
11 Nov 2022, 5:20 am
Most pertinently, it seems clear that the Supreme Court will soon rule in favor of the so-called Independent State Legislature theory (which my Verdict colleague Vikram Amar thoroughly debunked again two days ago), allowing gerrymandered Republican state legislatures in swing states to override the will of their voters in 2024 and award electors to Donald Trump (or whoever is the Republican presidential nominee).More broadly, the moving parts in our constitutional rules for… [read post]
10 Mar 2015, 9:01 pm
As Professor Vikram Amar argued in two insightful Verdict columns (here and here), failure to apply the conditional spending limits in King would open a very large loophole in those limits. [read post]
27 Apr 2023, 9:01 pm
But as Vikram Amar and Jason Mazzone put it in a Verdictcolumn from which I quoted last week: “[E]ach law school should not merely tolerate but embrace controversial speakers (provided they are serious people and not just incendiary propagandists). [read post]
4 Jul 2023, 9:01 pm
In an important 1961 article in the Harvard Law Review, Yale Law Professor Alexander Bickel—who was a leading constitutional scholar of his generation—defended the Supreme Court’s exercise of what he called “the passive virtues. [read post]
7 Oct 2020, 9:01 pm
Here on Verdict alone, readers can find columns by my colleagues Marci Hamilton, Vikram Amar, and Joanna Grossman, while Joseph Margulies offered a helpful suggestion regarding what Justice Ginsburg’s admirers should do now.Because I am a tax law scholar, my take on the Ginsburg legacy is unique. [read post]
7 Nov 2011, 3:30 am
Business and Constitutional Originalism in the Roberts Court Vikram D. [read post]
4 Feb 2021, 9:00 pm
You have to admit, the job is not easy. [read post]
2 Feb 2024, 6:51 am
As Vikram David Amar has pointed out in these pages, the Incompatibility Clause (Art. [read post]
9 Dec 2014, 9:01 pm
As Vikram David Amar and Alan E. [read post]
7 Feb 2021, 1:01 pm
[This post was co-authored by Josh Blackman and Seth Barrett Tillman] On Thursday, February 4, 2021, we discussed the First Amendment arguments in the House of Representatives' Managers' trial memorandum. [read post]
