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12 Aug 2018, 9:01 pm
I cringe when I hear folks express a fear that a Supreme Court nominee is likely to “use his position as a judge to legislate from the bench. [read post]
5 Aug 2018, 9:01 pm
The 2017–18 Supreme Court term was noteworthy for many reasons. [read post]
25 Jul 2018, 7:05 am
ADDED: Siegel writes:Closer to our own time and place, Richard Wright’s Bigger Thomas accidentally kills a white woman in the novel “Native Son,” and then rapes and murders a black woman; Gore Vidal wrote with sympathy about Timothy McVeigh; and David Mamet composed “Oleanna,” a prescient play about sexual harassment, accusation, guilt and innocence that, famously, had no clear resolution.But he seems to have missed the news (last February) that… [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]
15 Jul 2018, 4:05 pm
Surveillance Strasbourg Observers has analysed the case of Centrum för Rättvisa v. [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]
9 Jul 2018, 6:33 am
Contents include:J Ann Tickner & Jacqui True, A Century of International Relations Feminism: From World War I Women's Peace Pragmatism to the Women, Peace and Security Agenda Joseph MacKay & Christopher David LaRoche, Why Is There No Reactionary International Theory? [read post]
28 Jun 2018, 9:01 pm
Immigration issues have dominated the headlines for the past three weeks, if not longer. [read post]
14 Jun 2018, 9:01 pm
One of the most contentious cases of the Supreme Court’s term has been Masterpiece Cakeshop, Ltd. v. [read post]
1 Jun 2018, 8:19 am
My old firm, Davis Wright Tremaine LLP helped me get this started (and graciously allowed me to take the blog with me when I moved to my current firm six years ago). [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]
26 May 2018, 7:19 am
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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]
15 May 2018, 10:58 am
Sweet — Altanta , GA Stinson Leonard Street, LLP — Judy Carlson — Kansas City, MO Stinson Leonard Street, LLP — David Kim — Kansas City, MO The Richards Law Firm LLC — William B. [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]
29 Apr 2018, 8:45 pm
Walters explained that the name Full Court Press was inspired by the Malcolm Gladwell’s piece “How David Beat Goliath: When Underdogs Break the Rules. [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
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]
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
In the space below and also in a subsequent column, I examine the Winner-Take-All approach to allocating electors and the legal claims against it.Background on the ComplaintThe recently filed Complaint—in which University of Texas Law Professor Sandy Levinson is a named plaintiff and in which noted trial attorney David Boies (who represented and did the oral argument for Al Gore in the famous Bush v. [read post]
