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28 Aug 2014, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
SB 1272 submits the following question (designated by the California Secretary of State as Proposition 49) to the California electorate for its input: Shall the Congress of the United States propose, and the California Legislature ratify, an amendment or amendments to the United States Constitution to overturn Citizens United v. [read post]
12 May 2019, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
” Critics assert, in particular, that the president seems oblivious to a 1993 Supreme Court ruling, Nixon v. [read post]
24 Aug 2017, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
”Raven should be considered alongside the 2009 ruling (almost two decades later) in Strauss v. [read post]
24 Mar 2016, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar and Michael Schaps
But last week the Ninth Circuit decided a case that shows how tricky government consideration of race can be, and how lower court judges sometimes make missteps in this complex area.The case is Mitchell v. [read post]
29 Aug 2013, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
My biweekly column slot this week roughly coincides with the beginning of the new academic year at most law schools across the country. [read post]
2 Jan 2014, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
Silicon Valley billionaire investor Tim Draper recently unveiled a plan to divide up California into six separate states because, in his view, “California’s diverse population and economies [have] rendered the state nearly ungovernable. [read post]
26 Jun 2019, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
June 2019 might become known in Illinois as the month the state legalized marijuana use, but I hope it remains better remembered as the 100th anniversary of Illinois’ ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment—the provision in the Constitution that prohibited discrimination in voting on account of sex. [read post]
16 Jun 2016, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
Many commentators, including members of Congress and presidents, criticize judicial rulings as being influenced by improper philosophies or even by improper desires to protect partisan interests—think, for example, about the criticism of the conservative majorities in Bush v. [read post]
5 Dec 2013, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
”  A state legislature’s constitutional inability to favor particular federal legislative candidates and disfavor others explains why the Supreme Court held a dozen years ago in Cook v. [read post]
29 Nov 2018, 9:00 pm by Vikram David Amar
As the vote tallies for the November 2018 federal elections become finalized, one seat in the House of Representatives may not be resolved for several weeks because of an unusual lawsuit filed by Republican incumbent Bruce Poliquin (along with three Republican voters) in Maine. [read post]
Such state laws are often called Religious Freedom Restoration Acts, or RFRAs—named and patterned after the federal RRFA adopted by Congress after the Supreme Court’s 1990 decision in Employment Division v. [read post]