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9 Oct 2020, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
(Harvard University Press, 2020), and Jesse Wegman, Let the People Pick the President: The Case for Abolishing the Electoral College (St. [read post]
1 May 2014, 5:00 am by JB
Bruce Ackerman introduced the basic elements of his theory of constitutional moments in the Storrs lectures in the late 1980s. [read post]
25 Jun 2013, 11:31 am by Mark Walsh
“I have the opinion for the court in case 12-96, Shelby County v. [read post]
19 Feb 2016, 10:26 am by JB
For example, liberals who want to scale back decisions like Shelby County v. [read post]
2 Mar 2020, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
  When the working class threatened the interests of robber barons in late nineteenth century, for example, the illiterate and semiliterate poor were kept from the polls through literacy tests and poll taxes, not unlike the restrictive voter identification laws introduced after the Shelby County v. [read post]
4 Sep 2022, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
However, because neither group has any intention of rightwarding this careening ship, the problem will be with us for the foreseeable future—until the people recapture what is rightfully theirs or the vessel itself sinks. [read post]
12 Jun 2016, 7:26 am by Andrew Koppelman
  So far from offering any remedy for these abuses, the Roberts Court licensed them, in its extraordinary gutting of the Voting Rights Act by a 5-4 margin in Shelby County v. [read post]
17 Dec 2019, 12:15 pm by Ronald Collins
Bickel’s account – essentially, to emphasize the principles underlying the 14th Amendment and its capacity for growth, rather than how people at the time understood it – is of a piece with one of the ways originalists try to save their approach from generating unacceptable conclusions. [read post]
31 Jul 2020, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
  The Court’s notorious Shelby Countydecision facilitated a range of electoral measures designed to make it harder for poor people to vote in areas of the country where those poor people are likely to be people of color (pp. 55-59). [read post]
29 Aug 2017, 7:31 am by JB
" Presumably, these "very fine people" included those who carried Nazi swastikas, racist signs and torches, and shouted slogans like "Jews will not replace us. [read post]