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Five Years after “Unite the Right”: Reflections on Charlottesville for Today’s Threat Landscape

12 Aug 2022, 5:55 am by Nicholas Rasmussen

Former President Donald Trump’s “very fine people on both sides” comment further mainstreamed far-right extremist rhetoric largely relegated to the fringes of recent U.S. political discourse. [read post]

Just Security - https://www.justsecurity.org/

What Does it Mean for Other Institutions to “Defy” or “Check” the Supreme Court? Not Quite What the Court Invites Those Institutions to Do

10 Aug 2022, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar and Jason Mazzone

We now overrule those decisions and return that authority to the people and their elected representatives. [read post]

Verdict - http://verdict.justia.com/

Law and religion round-up – 7th August

6 Aug 2022, 11:55 pm by Frank Cranmer

In the late 1990s, the Revd Paul Williamson made several attempts to challenge the lawfulness of the ordination of women: see, for example, R (Williamson) v Dean & Chapter of St Paul’s Cathedral & Anor [1997] EWHC Admin 784. [read post]

Law & Religion UK - https://lawandreligionuk.com

Vox Senior Editor Fantasizes Over the Death of Justice Alito

4 Aug 2022, 5:24 am by jonathanturley

” Most recently, the dean and chancellor of University of California Hastings College of the Law David Faigman questioned the legitimacy of the Court after the ruling in Dobbs v. [read post]

Jonathan Turley - https://jonathanturley.org/

Why the Clean Air Act’s Special Treatment of California Is Permissible Even in Light of the Equal-Sovereignty Notion Invoked in Shelby County

1 Aug 2022, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar

Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts tried (obviously unsuccessfully) to avoid the complete overturning of Roe v. [read post]

Verdict - http://verdict.justia.com/

“Rebalance the Bench”: Democrats Introduce Sweeping Changes for the Supreme Court

27 Jul 2022, 6:40 am by jonathanturley

” Most recently, the dean and chancellor of University of California Hastings College of the Law David Faigman questioned the legitimacy of the Court after the ruling in Dobbs v. [read post]

Jonathan Turley - https://jonathanturley.org/

The Electoral Count Act Reform Bill is Actually Pretty Good. Is it Constitutional?

21 Jul 2022, 9:22 am by Michael C. Dorf

For example, the Bush v. [read post]

Dorf on Law - http://www.dorfonlaw.org/

A Brave New World: The NCAA’s New NIL Policy and the Need for Federal Legislation

11 Jul 2022, 2:50 pm by Josh H. Escovedo

Supreme Court, in a unanimous opinion authored by Justice Gorsuch, released its decision in NCAA v. [read post]

IP Law Blog - http://www.theiplawblog.com/

[Eugene Volokh] China Kinda Sus: Indictment for "Transnational Repression Scheme to Silence Critics" of China in U.S.

8 Jul 2022, 2:42 pm by Eugene Volokh

From a Justice Department press release in U.S. v. [read post]

The Volokh Conspiracy - http://www.volokh.com/

Hope and a Prayer: Liberals Condemn the Conservative Justices After Dubious Rolling Stone Article

8 Jul 2022, 5:34 am by jonathanturley

In fact, the conservative majority in Dobbs v. [read post]

Jonathan Turley - https://jonathanturley.org/

Dobbs Double-Cross: How Justice Alito Misused Pro-Choice Scholars’ Work

5 Jul 2022, 9:01 pm by Michael C. Dorf

The leading one he cites is Geduldig v. [read post]

Verdict - http://verdict.justia.com/

Roe and Dobbs as Defining Cases for the Supreme Court and the Justices Who Wrote the Majority Opinions

5 Jul 2022, 9:00 pm by Rodger Citron

Just as Roe v. [read post]

Verdict - http://verdict.justia.com/

The Kavanaugh Court?

4 Jul 2022, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar

Bruen) and one repudiating abortion rights (Dobbs v. [read post]

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Yale Divinity Dean: There is “No Biblical Basis” for Abortion Bans

4 Jul 2022, 4:00 am by jonathanturley

The latest example is Yale Divinity School (YDS) Dean Gregory Sterling, who issued a statement not only opposing the recent Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. [read post]

Jonathan Turley - https://jonathanturley.org/

[Eugene Volokh] No-Contact Order Against Law Students (and Professor) Based on Conversation About Homosexuality and Bible …

1 Jul 2022, 12:05 pm by Eugene Volokh

From Perlot v. [read post]

The Volokh Conspiracy - http://www.volokh.com/

"We the People" Podcast on Carson v. Makin and Kennedy v. Bremerton School District

1 Jul 2022, 11:00 am by Michael Moreland

I greatly enjoyed doing the National Constitution Center's "We the People" podcast (available here) with Dean Erwin Chemerinsky (UC Berkeley Law) and moderated by Jeffrey Rosen on the Supreme Court's recent decisions on school funding and prayer--Dean Chemerinsky and I had a lot of spirited but respectful disagreements! [read post]

Mirror of Justice - https://mirrorofjustice.blogs.com/

(Yet) Another Reason ISL Theory is Wrong About the Meaning of the Term State “Legislature”: The Constitution’s References to the Federal Counterpart—“Congress”

30 Jun 2022, 4:14 pm by Vikram David Amar

I speak here of the North Carolina partisan-gerrymandering dispute (Moore v. [read post]

Verdict - http://verdict.justia.com/

The Week from Hell

27 Jun 2022, 4:00 am by Eric Segall

Comer, and Espinoza v. [read post]

Dorf on Law - http://www.dorfonlaw.org/

The original Gilded Age lawyers (312)

26 Jun 2022, 12:28 am by Bill Henderson

People came rushing in to buy land, and an era started to pass. [read post]