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25 Oct 2020, 5:46 pm by INFORRM
A U.S. judge said he will consider without hearing arguments whether to excuse President Donald Trump from a defamation lawsuit by a former Elle magazine columnist, after the coronavirus pandemic unexpectedly derailed the government from presenting its case. [read post]
18 Oct 2020, 2:19 pm by Marty Lederman
U.S. 393, 432-52 (1857), that Congress lacked authority to do just that.This is not one of those rare cases. [read post]
8 Oct 2020, 10:20 am by Phil Dixon
(1) Trial court’s instructions that the jury “will determine what the assault was” did not amount to an improper expression of opinion on the evidence in context; (2) The trial court’s response to a jury question during deliberations regarding a prior conviction was an not impermissible expression of opinion on the evidence State v. [read post]
2 Oct 2020, 5:52 pm by Eugene Volokh
Davis, Justice Blackmun granted a television network's application to stay an injunction prohibiting a broadcast that would allegedly disclose a meat packing company's trade secrets. 510 U.S. at 1318; see also Ford Motor Co. v. [read post]
20 Aug 2020, 12:31 pm by Josh Blackman, Seth Barrett Tillman
On July 23, the House Judiciary Committee held a markup of a new bill, the Abuse of the Pardon Prevention Act. [read post]
10 Aug 2020, 11:34 am by Steve Gottlieb
— This commentary was scheduled for broadcast on WAMC Northeast Report on August 11, 2020. [1] https://www.npr.org/2020/06/27/884213464/dc-statue-of-lincoln-standing-over-a-formerly-enslaved-man-sparks-controversy [2] United States v Cruikshank, 92 U.S. 542 (1875). [3] I don’t know if Goldman ever wrote up his lecture but here’s a link to someone else’s reconstruction,… [read post]
5 Aug 2020, 12:00 pm by ernst
Taney (LC)This grounding in white supremacy, slavery, and racial hatred followed Taney into his privileged rise through the Maryland legislature, into private practice, and then as Maryland attorney general and subsequently, as reward for his zealous support of Andrew Jackson in his rise to the Presidency, to the offices of U.S. attorney general, Secretary of Treasury, and finally, for almost thirty years, Chief Justice of the U.S. [read post]
17 Jul 2020, 9:46 am by Stephen Griffin
  In the process the article raises questions about how we should understand the scope of the achievement of those who sponsored and ratified the Reconstruction amendments.In the last part of “Optimistic Originalism” I discuss why Brown is commonly viewed as a “living constitutionalist” opinion (Here and elsewhere in these posts I put living constitutionalism in scare quotes because I think the real issue is how to understand the process of constitutional change outside… [read post]