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17 May 2018, 9:01 pm
All of this is a good reminder that there is often more than one way to get where you want to constitutionally go.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]
2 Jun 2016, 9:01 pm
Perhaps the reason the Harris Court did not discuss justiciability at all is that the plaintiff’s allegations of significant partisan motivation were factually baseless in any event, but had Justice Scalia remained on the Court, I would not have been surprised to see him comment on whether the Court should be reaching the merits at all.As in so many other areas, the Court in this setting is different in his absence.Follow @prof_amar Vikram… [read post]
1 Dec 2016, 9:01 pm
Let’s hope that the absence of school-specific statistics for the February 2016 exam was an aberration, and that when the more detailed statistics for July 2016 come out later this month or early next, school-by-school data is provided (at least for schools with a large enough number of takers so as to make any concerns about identifying individual takers baseless.)Follow @prof_amar Vikram David Amar is the Iwan Foundation Professor of… [read post]
18 Jun 2015, 9:01 pm
Vikram David Amar, a Justia columnist, is the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Law at the University of California, Davis School of Law. [read post]
9 Oct 2019, 9:01 pm
Earlier this month Sacramento-based federal district judge Morrison England issued a preliminary injunction blocking implementation of California’s recently enacted law that denies ballot access to presidential (and gubernatorial) candidates who have chosen not to release their tax returns. [read post]
8 Mar 2017, 9:01 pm
Legal magazines have recently been reporting on a spate of legislative proposals in various states that seek, albeit in different ways, to give legislatures increased power to interpret and implement the Constitution in the face of judicial rulings with which the legislators may disagree. [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]
24 Aug 2021, 9:01 pm
For this, and other more pragmatic reasons, we do not expect the Illinois Supreme Court (where any aggressive lower state court ruling would be appealed to in any event) to support doing anything but letting the revised district lines (if they be revised as we expect) go into effect.Follow @prof_amar Vikram David Amar is the Dean and Iwan Foundation Professor of Law at the University of Illinois College of Law on the Urbana-Champaign campus.… [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]
16 Sep 2021, 9:01 pm
But we need be careful not to focus on the work of the drafters at the Philadelphia Convention in a way that obscures the grievous imperfections in their work product, or (more happily) the ways in which Americans have worked hard (and sacrificed so much) in the two centuries since to correct those imperfections, an enterprise that continues to this day.Follow @prof_amar Vikram David Amar is the Dean and Iwan Foundation Professor of Law at… [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]
31 May 2021, 9:01 pm
A little over a year ago, in Ramos 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]
15 Aug 2021, 9:01 pm
(Indeed, in Amar’s last column he discussed precisely that topic, in the context of former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich’s frivolous recent litigative attempt to undo the lifetime ban on state officeholding imposed on him by the Illinois Senate after his impeachment process over a decade ago.)Consider another perfectly permissible device that functionally denies voters the opportunity to elect whomever they might want: term limits. [read post]
2 Aug 2023, 9:01 pm
As the calendar turns from July to August, attention is properly beginning to focus on the Supreme Court’s upcoming term (even as there is still much to digest from what came down in June.) [read post]
21 Feb 2019, 9:01 pm
In our last column, we explored some threshold justiciability issues (focusing on the plaintiff’s standing to sue in federal court) in the recent federal lawsuit by a Texas-based nonprofit organization—Faculty, Alumni, and Students Opposed to Racial Preferences (FASORP)—against Harvard Law Review (HLR), challenging HLR’s use of race and gender in selecting members and also in selecting authors for publication. [read post]
29 Jan 2015, 9:01 pm
In my last column, I explored some aspects of an important case, Arizona Legislature v. [read post]
31 May 2018, 9:01 pm
The tension between states and localities, on the one hand, and federal authorities, on the other, over so-called “sanctuary” jurisdictions has been one of the most politically charged federalism flashpoints since President Trump took office. [read post]
11 Sep 2019, 9:01 pm
Of course, the North Carolina Supreme Court could conceivably overrule the lower state courts’ understanding of North Carolina law, but it appears that the State Attorney General does not plan a state supreme court appeal, leaving Lewis as the final word on this matter, for now, in the state.Follow @prof_amar Vikram David Amar is the Dean and Iwan Foundation Professor of Law at the University of Illinois College of Law on the… [read post]
11 Feb 2021, 9:01 pm
Indeed, without “piling on” (the way our series of columns might have been understood to do) or being overly harsh in criticizing the past SG’s filings, more explanation could have demonstrated why this instance was (the unusual) one that justified a change in position, so as to deflect the perception that it’s just about sending a message of support for Obamacare.Follow @prof_amar Vikram David Amar is the Dean and… [read post]
