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8 Jun 2016, 6:15 am by Marty Lederman
Within days, every important state boxing commission in the nation had followed suit, effectively preventing Ali from fighting in the United States. [read post]
2 Feb 2018, 4:20 am by Edith Roberts
At The Economist’s Democracy in America blog, Steven Mazie hopes that in Janus v. [read post]
30 Jan 2025, 4:00 am by Andrew Flavelle Martin
Gibbon is important for at least two reasons.[7] First, it appears to be the first decision applying Gladue principles in judicial discipline – a point of law that the Divisional Court upheld on judicial review virtually without comment.[8] Insofar as Gibbon explicitly followed a 2013 decision applying Gladue principles in lawyer discipline, it may not seem particularly surprising.[9] However, this application and its ready acceptance by the Divisional Court panel is particularly notable in… [read post]
1 Mar 2021, 5:07 am by Marcia Coyle
That section bars state and local vote practices that result in race discrimination—what is known as the results test—or that intentionally discriminate against racial minority voters, the intent test. [read post]
28 Feb 2024, 4:00 am by Eric Segall
These votes seem much more aligned with the Republican Party’s desire to make it harder for people of color to vote than any reasonable interpretation of the United States Constitution.There is an aspect of equal protection clause doctrine that prohibits states from conditioning the exercise of fundamental rights on payments that the poor cannot afford. [read post]
6 Jan 2012, 9:02 pm by Lyle Denniston
   The ruling also may bring a severe test of the constitutionality of America’s most important law on the voting opportunities of minorities, the Voting Rights Act of 1965. [read post]
28 Jun 2013, 8:08 am by Allison Trzop
Briefly: At PrawfsBlawg, Will Baude covers United States v. [read post]
27 Dec 2022, 9:01 pm by Austin Sarat
The last half century has witnessed extraordinary, almost unimaginable, changes in how Americans think about the death penalty.Fifty years ago, in 1972, the United States Supreme Court brought a temporary halt to capital punishment in Furman v. [read post]
16 May 2013, 11:08 am by Rahul Bhagnari, ACLU
While most countries accept the return of their citizens if the United States orders them deported, several refuse to take back them back, either because of a lack of formal relations with the U.S. [read post]
28 Dec 2018, 12:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
” In 1942, legislation was adopted by Congress “to codify and emphasize existing customs pertaining to the display and use of the flag of the United States of America. [read post]
31 Dec 2013, 8:38 am
Simply put, Section 5 stated that if any jurisdiction wanted to make changes to laws relevant to voting, it first must have that aspiration upheld by the authority of the Attorney General of the United States or a three judge panel of the U.S. [read post]