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28 May 2020, 9:01 pm by Austin Sarat
In the post-war South, white southern Democrats used felony disenfranchisement to deny those rights, invoking historical similarities between the legal statuses of slaves and convicts as justification.Today, according to a report by the Sentencing Project, nearly 40% of the 6.1 million people disenfranchised by a felony conviction are black.Despite the troubled association of felony disenfranchisement laws with racial discrimination, courts, like the 2002 Florida court, generally have upheld them in… [read post]
22 May 2020, 8:51 am by Jeffery Robinson
We are two months away from the 400th anniversary of the first enslaved people arriving in what would become the United States of America. [read post]
18 May 2020, 2:45 am by NCC Staff
United States (1944) is usually cited as well,” Savage said. [read post]
6 May 2020, 6:30 am by Mark Graber
The people of these United States are the rightful masters of both Congresses and courts, not to overthrow the constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert that constitution. [read post]
4 May 2020, 6:30 am by Sandy Levinson
 John Marshall ended his first paragraph in McCulloch v. [read post]
23 Mar 2020, 9:00 pm by Austin Sarat
It also should lead the United States to break the pattern of the last century in which capital punishment flourished during pandemics.As the coronavirus spreads, this country must, in the words of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, marshal “the enormous resources needed to address… [our present] emergency. [read post]
12 Mar 2020, 8:07 am by Preston Lim
As described by Justice John Marshall Harlan in Banco Nacional de Cuba v. [read post]
3 Mar 2020, 1:59 pm by Mark Walsh
” Alito says, in reference to a statute that President Barack Obama’s administration declined to defend in United States v. [read post]
24 Feb 2020, 4:05 am by Edith Roberts
” To the editorial board of The Wall Street Journal (subscription required), it is “one more example of what ails America in the age of the runaway administrative state. [read post]
19 Feb 2020, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
Rather than discussing how life will change for various groups of people in America, I want to engage in informed speculation about how the legal system in the United States will look in a few years. [read post]
5 Feb 2020, 12:43 pm by becassidy
We thought we would also highlight some great resources related to Black History from HeinOnline: Slavery in America and the World – all known legal materials on slavery in the United States and the English-speaking world. [read post]
19 Jan 2020, 9:15 am by Sue Ghosh Stricklett
Oracle America, a case pending before the United States Supreme Court, is a seemingly never-ending battle, since 2010, between two Silicon Valley behemoths. [read post]
19 Jan 2020, 9:15 am by Sue Ghosh Stricklett
Oracle America, a case pending before the United States Supreme Court, is a seemingly never-ending battle, since 2010, between two Silicon Valley behemoths. [read post]
17 Dec 2019, 12:15 pm by Ronald Collins
Department of Justice and was an assistant to the Solicitor General of the United States. [read post]
14 Nov 2019, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
When John Marshall drafted McCulloch, he had more on his mind than justifying internal improvements, and much more than simply validating the existence of the Second Bank of the United States. [read post]
7 Nov 2019, 12:00 pm by Ronald Collins
Since the mid-1970s, he has been deeply pessimistic about the possibilities of political change: Political action of any sort, he believes, cannot improve or ameliorate the condition of black people in the United States. [read post]