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6 Mar 2022, 9:01 pm
As my co-author (Akhil Amar) and I discuss in an Article forthcoming in The Supreme Court Review (a draft of which is available on SSRN here), recent attention concerning ISL theory may have been generated by members of the Supreme Court itself; four Justices, drawing on arguments advanced in the Bush v. [read post]
22 Feb 2018, 9:01 pm
At the end of the day, even those of us who are constitutional lawyers must appreciate that there is nothing that can remotely substitute for electing wise and thoughtful persons who exercise care and good judgment, and who take the long view of things.Follow @prof_amar Vikram David Amar is the Iwan Foundation Professor of Law and the Dean at the University of Illinois College of Law. [read post]
8 Sep 2016, 9:01 pm
Late last month, a federal trial court in Texas issued a nationwide order preventing the federal Department of Education (DOE), as well as a number of other federal agencies, from enforcing—anywhere in the country—their “interpretation of the definition of ‘sex’ in the various written directives … as applied to Title IX … and Title VII” (which are federal laws that prohibit certain entities from discriminating on the basis of sex). [read post]
29 Jun 2017, 9:01 pm
So whether or not a broader executive privilege should have been recognized by the Court, Richard Nixon should not have benefitted from it, in the same way that other privileges do not protect persons engaged in ongoing criminality.That said, as commentators such as Akhil Amar have observed, there are aspects of the Court’s reasoning that don’t hold up well to careful scrutiny. [read post]
10 Sep 2015, 9:01 pm
We are now just weeks away from the start of the Supreme Court’s 2015-2016 Term, and in the coming months the Justia Verdict site will feature previews and analyses of many important upcoming cases. [read post]
10 Dec 2015, 9:01 pm
Vikram David Amar is the Iwan Foundation Professor of Law and the Dean at the University of Illinois College of Law. [read post]
16 Jan 2014, 9:01 pm
Vikram David Amar, a Justia columnist, is the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Law at the University of California, Davis School of Law. [read post]
30 Oct 2022, 9:01 pm
As Amar put it, “‘[e]mpower’ does not mean ‘require;’ rather, it means to create the power to do or not do something” (emphasis in original). [read post]
30 Jul 2015, 9:01 pm
Understanding Where the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact Plan Stands Today and How Partisan Roadblocks May Impede Its Continued Progress As I have written in a number of columns analyzing different nuances of this concept, the NPV plan—a version of which was seriously floated by a small number of people including me, my older brother Akhil Amar, and also (separately) by Professor Robert Bennett over a decade ago—seeks to permit and encourage various states to sign onto… [read post]
9 Sep 2021, 9:01 pm
Relatedly, even though the specifics of a reform package need to be worked out, legislative leaders in California should proclaim publicly on Monday of next week, before anyone knows the fate of Gavin Newsom or his would-be successors, that a significant set of reforms will be forthcoming, so as to minimize the perception that reformers want to make changes only if their candidate loses under the current rules.Follow @prof_amar Vikram David… [read post]
6 Apr 2017, 9:01 pm
Three days before Donald Trump took the presidential oath of office, Summer Zervos—a woman who had participated on Mr. [read post]
11 Aug 2016, 9:01 pm
Sometimes when a lawmaking body adopts a new rule that seeks to promote the protection of civil liberties, the effort backfires. [read post]
22 May 2019, 9:01 pm
Last week’s 5-4 ruling by the Supreme Court in Franchise Tax Board v. [read post]
1 Jul 2024, 9:00 pm
Instead, we have to wait for the Court to issue its rulings, and read them carefully to see what they do and don’t resolve.Follow @prof_amar Vikram David Amar is a Distinguished Professor of Law at UC Davis School of Law and a Professor of Law and Former Dean at the University of Illinois College of Law on the Urbana-Champaign campus. [read post]
24 Aug 2016, 9:01 pm
In a very unusual recent law review essay, University of Chicago (emeritus) law Professor Al Alschuler seeks to expose what he sees as judicial wrongdoing by Frank Easterbrook, a prominent judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit (who came to the bench after a prolific career as a law professor and legal scholar, also at the University of Chicago.) [read post]
17 Feb 2020, 9:01 pm
The controversy last week surrounding President Trump’s tweets about the sentencing of Roger Stone, a Trump campaign advisor convicted of lying to Congress, is yet another reminder of two transcendently important—but often misunderstood, or at least vastly underappreciated—aspects of American constitutional design. [read post]
27 Jul 2023, 9:01 pm
As America seems to be figuratively coming apart at the seams, movements throughout the nation to accomplish literal (geopolitical) separation in various states and regions continue to gather supporters too. [read post]
19 Jun 2014, 9:01 pm
In the space below, I analyze a pending effort by California lawmakers to cleanse the California statute books of (what are to my mind) some mean-spirited provisions concerning the treatment of undocumented immigrants in the State. [read post]
10 Jan 2019, 9:01 pm
In my last column, Part One of this series, I examined a lawsuit challenging the Arizona state law scheme for holding a replacement election to fill the US Senate vacancy created by John McCain’s death last year. [read post]
27 Sep 2023, 9:01 pm
This is an important week for determining the fate of congressional district lines in the state of New Mexico. [read post]
