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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]
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]
4 Sep 2019, 9:01 pm
As my fellow Verdict columnist Professor Michael Dorf explained in his most recent column, the U.S. [read post]
31 Jul 2014, 9:01 pm
In my last column, Part I of this Two-Part series, I argued that lower courts are justified in paying (indeed perhaps required to pay) close attention to Justice Kennedy’s concurring opinion in this summer’s blockbuster Burwell v. [read post]
31 Jul 2019, 9:01 pm
The recent passing of retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens has rightly generated numerous tributes and commentaries discussing the dozens of high-profile opinions he wrote during his almost-35 years on the Court. [read post]
11 Dec 2019, 9:01 pm
In Parts One and Two of this series, we introduced an important pending federal court challenge to Mississippi’s gubernatorial election regime, situated the dispute in constitutional context, and examined various procedural aspects of the case. [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]
3 Nov 2016, 5:00 pm
In July, in the aftermath of FBI Director James Comey’s wrong-headed decision to go public with the recommendations he was making to prosecutors in the DOJ that there was no plausible basis for prosecution of Hillary Clinton arising out of her email transgressions (and equally wrong-headed decision to opine about matters that went beyond whether prosecution was warranted), I wrote a column for this website identifying broader constitutional lessons to be gleaned from the episode.Since, as… [read post]
5 Nov 2015, 9:01 pm
In the space below, we analyze the essential issues raised in Spokeo v. [read post]
3 Dec 2015, 9:01 pm
In the space below, I preview a case to be argued in the Supreme Court next week, Harris v. [read post]
17 Jul 2019, 9:01 pm
One of the most-watched set of Supreme Court cases last term involved efforts by reformers to enlist the federal judiciary in the fight to rein in what some people believe is problematically aggressive partisan gerrymandering. [read post]
23 Feb 2017, 9:01 pm
., we ought not waste time on any hearing.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]
10 Mar 2020, 9:01 pm
Controversial immigration policies that originate in D.C. and that are enforced throughout the country by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency continue to generate tremendous friction between the federal government, on the on hand, and the state and local governments, on the other. [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]
18 Oct 2018, 9:01 pm
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]
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]
31 May 2021, 9:01 pm
A little over a year ago, in Ramos v. [read post]
24 Sep 2014, 9:01 pm
The past year or so has been a rough period for people who support the design of the direct democracy process in California. [read post]
2 Jan 2020, 9:01 pm
There remains uncertainty about exactly how the Senate will conduct impeachment trial proceedings on the two articles of impeachment for President Trump adopted by the House of Representatives last month. [read post]
10 Mar 2016, 9:01 pm
It is only to say that, while permissible, advisory measures like Proposition 49 that ask exaggerated questions, are of limited assistance in thinking meaningfully about the specific kinds of language we might include in our Constitution to make elections (and policy results) more fair and democratically responsive.Follow @prof_amar Vikram David Amar is the Iwan Foundation Professor of Law and the Dean at the University of Illinois College… [read post]
