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3 Sep 2018, 9:01 pm
Ohio State football is a lot like the New York Yankees and the New England Patriots. [read post]
12 Aug 2018, 9:01 pm
Just as then-Justice William Rehnquist in his confirmation hearings for Chief Justice in 1986 could have properly—without making any impermissible promises—told Senators that particular of his own prior Supreme Court writings as an associate justice accurately reflected his constitutional vision (and no one could really doubt that this would have been proper), so Judge Kavanaugh can explain to senators that he agrees—or disagrees—with particular opinions of Rehnquist… [read post]
5 Aug 2018, 9:01 pm
The 2017–18 Supreme Court term was noteworthy for many reasons. [read post]
15 Jul 2018, 9:01 pm
Now that Silicon Valley venture capitalist Tim Draper has submitted a sufficient number of signatures for his bid to split California into three separate states—Cal3, as it is called—to qualify for the November general election ballot, commentators are beginning to discuss the political and legal obstacles the measure faces—hurdles I flagged and analyzed in a number of Verdict columns, including here and here.Among the legal stumbling blocks currently being talked about is the… [read post]
12 Jul 2018, 9:01 pm
It looks like Justice Anthony Kennedy will be replaced by one of his former clerks, DC Circuit Judge Brett Kavanaugh. [read post]
28 Jun 2018, 9:01 pm
Immigration issues have dominated the headlines for the past three weeks, if not longer. [read post]
27 Jun 2018, 1:43 pm
She fills the vacancy created by the retirement of Judge William P. [read post]
14 Jun 2018, 9:01 pm
The first involves the Court’s discussion of several prior Civil Rights Commission decisions (the so-called Jack cases) in Colorado where the commission concluded that bakers did not violate the state’s anti-discrimination statutes when they refused to create cakes displaying religiously inspired anti-gay messages sought by a customer (William Jack). [read post]
31 May 2018, 9:01 pm
The tension between states and localities, on the one hand, and federal authorities, on the other, over so-called “sanctuary” jurisdictions has been one of the most politically charged federalism flashpoints since President Trump took office. [read post]
17 May 2018, 9:01 pm
He is a co-author, along with William Cohen and Jonathan Varat, of a major constitutional law casebook, and a co-author of several volumes of the Wright & Miller treatise on federal practice and procedure. [read post]
3 May 2018, 9:01 pm
It is usually a happy coincidence when my two professional roles—constitutional scholar/teacher and academic administrator—come together in a work task. [read post]
18 Apr 2018, 9:01 pm
It is time for an update on a proposal—about which I wrote two columns (the second of which is here) last summer—that seeks to carve California up into three separate states. [read post]
4 Apr 2018, 9:01 pm
Before teaching, Professor Amar spent a few years at the firm of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. [read post]
21 Mar 2018, 9:01 pm
In my last column, 2020 Election Legal Maneuvering, I described a recent lawsuit filed by some prominent lawyers and law professors challenging Texas’s use of the so-called Winner-Take-All (WTA) approach to selecting the state’s representatives to the so-called Electoral College. [read post]
8 Mar 2018, 9:01 pm
Near the end of February, a high-profile group of lawyers and law professors filed a suit challenging the permissibility of the way Texas goes about administering presidential elections. [read post]
22 Feb 2018, 9:01 pm
Before teaching, Professor Amar spent a few years at the firm of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. [read post]
7 Feb 2018, 9:01 pm
This week’s decision by Justice Samuel Alito (who entertains emergency motions from within Delaware, New Jersey and Pennsylvania) to leave undisturbed the congressional districting ruling last month by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court—in League of Women Voters of Pennsylvania v Commonwealth (League of Women Voters)—is a helpful reminder of the importance of state courts and state constitutions in safeguarding American democracy. [read post]
24 Jan 2018, 9:01 pm
The blockbuster movie The Post tells a very important real-life story about the efforts of the journalists and leaders of the Washington Post (including Katherine Graham, the first female head of a major American newspaper) and the New York Times to publish parts of a collection of classified documents (the “Pentagon Papers”) detailing non-public information about America’s controversial involvement in the Vietnam War. [read post]
11 Jan 2018, 9:01 pm
Before teaching, Professor Amar spent a few years at the firm of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. [read post]
5 Jan 2018, 6:02 am
Posted by Jay R. [read post]
