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1 Nov 2017, 9:01 pm
If federal courts are going to be able to enforce the limits that federalism creates on the national government, while at the same time permit the feds to operate in their own proper sphere (and inspire confidence in the public as they accomplish both objectives), they (and their law clerks) need to understand not just nuanced technical details of various specific doctrines, but the overall federalism big picture as well.Follow @prof_amar Vikram… [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]
17 Feb 2020, 9:01 pm
The controversy last week surrounding President Trump’s tweets about the sentencing of Roger Stone, a Trump campaign advisor convicted of lying to Congress, is yet another reminder of two transcendently important—but often misunderstood, or at least vastly underappreciated—aspects of American constitutional design. [read post]
22 May 2019, 9:01 pm
Last week’s 5-4 ruling by the Supreme Court in Franchise Tax Board v. [read post]
9 Jan 2020, 9:01 pm
Freeing senators from party-leader retribution would be nice, but there is simply no way to do that without freeing senators from accountability to the people of the states (who themselves may prefer to be as intensely partisan as their leaders are in today’s moment), which is the whole point of popular election of senators.Follow @prof_amar Vikram David Amar is the Dean and Iwan Foundation Professor of Law at the University of… [read post]
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]
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]
18 Apr 2019, 9:01 pm
This week’s proposal by President Trump that immigrants detained at the border be relocated to so-called “sanctuary” cities (which the federal government has previously defined as jurisdictions that refuse to assist in federal immigration enforcement), so that these cities will bear the costs of absorbing the detainees, is not the first time the federal government has considered punishing (as distinguished from simply withholding federal funding from) sanctuary jurisdictions. [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]
24 Aug 2016, 9:01 pm
In a very unusual recent law review essay, University of Chicago (emeritus) law Professor Al Alschuler seeks to expose what he sees as judicial wrongdoing by Frank Easterbrook, a prominent judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit (who came to the bench after a prolific career as a law professor and legal scholar, also at the University of Chicago.) [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]
11 Feb 2016, 9:01 pm
One often-overlooked aspect of the attention paid to U.S. [read post]
30 Jul 2015, 9:01 pm
Understanding Where the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact Plan Stands Today and How Partisan Roadblocks May Impede Its Continued Progress As I have written in a number of columns analyzing different nuances of this concept, the NPV plan—a version of which was seriously floated by a small number of people including me, my older brother Akhil Amar, and also (separately) by Professor Robert Bennett over a decade ago—seeks to permit and encourage various states to sign onto… [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]
29 Jan 2015, 9:01 pm
In my last column, I explored some aspects of an important case, Arizona Legislature v. [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]
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]
25 Dec 2023, 9:01 pm
”Professor Lessig’s essay never returns to this “strong argument” to debunk it, making all the time and effort he spends on whether a sensible Section 3 could have intentionally excluded the President (which is beside the point if the President does hold office under the United States) the real puzzle.Follow @prof_amar Vikram David Amar is a Distinguished Professor of Law at UC Davis School of Law and a Professor of… [read post]
22 Dec 2020, 9:01 pm
But legislatures and courts need to understand what the Twenty-Sixth Amendment says and means to prevent this invidious disparate treatment from continuing to affect election outcomes in future years.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]
