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15 Feb 2023, 6:18 am by Amichai Cohen, Yuval Shany
Minister of Finance, the Supreme Court invalidated an election financing law because it contradicted the principle of equality in elections found in Article 4 of Basic Law: The Knesset. [read post]
14 Feb 2023, 5:01 am by Amichai Cohen, Yuval Shany
The written agreements between the parties that formed the governing coalition unequivocally stated that judicial reform would take precedence over any other matter, and be supported by all coalition parties. [read post]
26 Jan 2023, 7:45 pm by Jim Sedor
Supreme Court asked the Biden administration to weigh in on whether states may bar giant social media platforms from removing certain types of political speech, a major First Amendment case that could determine how the constitutional right to free speech applies to the marketplace of ideas on the internet. [read post]
26 Jan 2023, 12:38 pm by Justin Chan
  It is not lost on us that the recent tough-on-crime talk and policy proposals come on the heels of significant reforms, which include amendments to New York’s cash bail system and the election of progressive prosecutors across the country. [read post]
26 Jan 2023, 8:00 am by Guest Blogger
  For Strauss, we were graced by a “common law constitution” that enabled sagacious judges in effect to update the Constitution as necessary; Ackerman, on the other hand, created an elaborate theory by which amendment outside the barriers established by Article V was legitimate precisely because proponents could capture the various institutions of American politics that would then be responsive to desires for reform. [read post]
25 Jan 2023, 8:00 am by Mark Graber
  Words matter, but as efforts to achieve particular results, not merely as conveyers of linguistic meaning. [read post]
22 Jan 2023, 4:35 pm by INFORRM
The new legislation will consider matters such as the right to be forgotten and the longstanding recommendation of the Australian Law Reform Commission to create a statutory tort of privacy. [read post]
20 Jan 2023, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
Consider the reforms of Solon and then of Cleisthenes in Athens, the outcome of the Social War in Rome, and of course the Reconstruction Amendments, the expansion of the franchise to women, and similar moments in the United States. [read post]
19 Jan 2023, 8:00 am by Guest Blogger
  But at its center were various justices who seemed to be struggling with arguments from all sides—not all the time, but often enough to matter. [read post]
19 Jan 2023, 1:36 am by Jim Sedor
Garland’s decision to place the probe under supervision of a special counsel ratchets up the legal stakes for Biden, who has stressed he takes the matter seriously while saying he was surprised to learn about the existence of the documents. [read post]
17 Jan 2023, 6:10 am by J. William Leonard
  At about the same time, David Addington attempted to abolish my office by drafting an amendment to the president’s executive order. [read post]
12 Jan 2023, 6:08 am by Andy Wright
The structure of the package was to build off, and amend, the Rules of the 117th Congress. [read post]
6 Jan 2023, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
It amends an 1887 law and reaffirms the vice president has only a ministerial role at the joint session of Congress where electoral college votes are counted. [read post]
4 Jan 2023, 5:30 am by Christine Bell
He addresses conundrums such as whether to address the constitutional framework in peace negotiations or after; the best timing of the period of constitutional reform; whether to establish a permanent or interim constitution; whether to reform through amendment or replacement; whether, when, and how to hold a referendum; and whether it is better to rely on international standards for human rights or instead to draft them more contextually, especially when it comes to… [read post]
27 Dec 2022, 3:26 pm by Eugene Volokh
Possibly, the school district could have taken alternative routes, such as attempting to educate and reform the perpetrators of the hate speech in line with the school's role as educators. [read post]
27 Dec 2022, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
This would mean, among other things, that it would be both desirable—and perhaps even constitutionally necessary—to repeal the 1842 act of Congress, reaffirmed in 1969, requiring single-member districts to elect members of the House of Representatives and to require states, in structuring their own legislatures, to reject single-member districts in favor of systems that would allow much greater variation in those actually elected than is now the case. [read post]
26 Dec 2022, 4:00 am by Eric Segall
It is true they don’t have to be re-elected but neither do second term Presidents and term-limited mayors and governors.More importantly though, what would we expect these Justices to do when faced with many of this country’s most important and difficult legal (capital punishment), political (campaign finance reform, voting rights and redistricting), social (affirmative action, guns, abortion), and economic (health care) issues? [read post]
  Later, a federal judge reviewing the document and emails discussing the matter between Trump and his staff concluded that “The emails show that President Trump knew that the specific numbers of voter fraud were wrong but continued to tout those numbers, both in court and to the public” and found that the emails were “sufficiently related to and in furtherance of a conspiracy to defraud the United States. [read post]