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26 Jun 2019, 9:01 pm
June 2019 might become known in Illinois as the month the state legalized marijuana use, but I hope it remains better remembered as the 100th anniversary of Illinois’ ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment—the provision in the Constitution that prohibited discrimination in voting on account of sex. [read post]
8 Oct 2015, 9:01 pm
Last year at the Supreme Court, there was some level of drama about who would win or lose what I (and many other analysts) thought were the major cases; most people expected Justice Kennedy to join (as he did) with the more liberal Justices to recognize a national right of marriage equality for same-sex couples, but folks were less confident about the results in the Obamacare tax subsidies case and the challenge to Arizona’s independent redistricting commission, to name just a few. [read post]
28 Jun 2018, 9:01 pm
Immigration issues have dominated the headlines for the past three weeks, if not longer. [read post]
5 Jun 2014, 9:01 pm
While many analysts this month are understandably focused on the blockbuster rulings that are due from the Supreme Court in June—the back end of the Supreme Court litigation process, if you will—in my column today I introduce and briefly analyze the front end of three cases on which the Court has granted review for the next Term, which begins this fall. [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]
14 Aug 2014, 9:01 pm
As the fall semester approaches and college freshmen prepare to start school, there is renewed criticism of the University of California’s decision, implemented over the last few years at all or nearly all of the system’s campuses, to increase the number and percentage of out-of-state and international college students. [read post]
25 Jul 2016, 9:01 pm
A few weeks ago, the U.S. [read post]
20 Sep 2018, 9:01 pm
Earlier this summer, Illinois became the 37th state to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) to the United States Constitution originally proposed by Congress on March 22, 1972. [read post]
10 Apr 2013, 9:01 pm
No one knows for sure what the Supreme Court is going to do with Hollingsworth v. [read post]
17 Jul 2014, 9:01 pm
Legal and political commentators have already spent thousands of hours on how best to understand Justice Alito’s majority opinion in Burwell v. [read post]
4 Dec 2014, 9:01 pm
In an essay for this website a few weeks ago, my fellow columnist and friend Mike Dorf wrote about how the Obamacare statute (Act) might be in danger in the King v. [read post]
23 May 2013, 9:01 pm
In today’s column, I analyze a significant administrative law case handed down by the U.S. [read post]
7 Jul 2015, 9:01 pm
Last week’s ruling by the Supreme Court in Arizona Legislature v. [read post]
29 Aug 2013, 9:01 pm
My biweekly column slot this week roughly coincides with the beginning of the new academic year at most law schools across the country. [read post]
21 May 2015, 9:01 pm
A few weeks ago the Supreme Court handed down an important yet under-noticed case, Williams-Yulee v. [read post]
1 Jul 2019, 9:01 pm
As is typical, the Supreme Court this year delivered some of its biggest rulings at the end of the term. [read post]
5 Dec 2013, 9:01 pm
Yesterday the Federalism Working Group of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC)—an influential and generally conservative policy-oriented institution that offers template legislation for state governments to consider adopting—was scheduled to meet to consider, among other things, a proposal that would empower state legislatures to add candidates to general election ballots for the office of United States Senator. [read post]
14 Dec 2017, 9:01 pm
The year that is winding down brought many legal twists and turns at the highest levels of the federal government, and 2018 promises to be just as legally interesting and important. [read post]
18 May 2017, 9:01 pm
Although I had planned to write on another subject this week, recent and fast-moving events warrant attention to the topic of impeachment, a process more and more commentators (and some legislators on Capitol Hill) have been mentioning. [read post]
19 May 2016, 9:01 pm
Here they (or we, depending on point of view) go again—yet another complicated lawsuit seeking to mortally wound the Affordable Care Act (popularly known as Obamacare) is wending its way through the federal courts. [read post]
