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24 Jul 2024, 9:01 pm
In Part One of this series, I analyzed what I think was a profound failure by Judge Aileen Cannon, in dismissing the improper-documents-handling indictment by Special Counsel Jack Smith, to properly appreciate and operate within the bounds of federal district court power. [read post]
23 Jul 2024, 9:00 pm
Judge Aileen Cannon’s decision last week to dismiss the Mar-a-Lago improper-document-handling indictment against former President Donald Trump came as a shock to most observers. [read post]
1 Jul 2024, 9:00 pm
Instead, we have to wait for the Court to issue its rulings, and read them carefully to see what they do and don’t resolve.Follow @prof_amar Vikram David Amar is a Distinguished Professor of Law at UC Davis School of Law and a Professor of Law and Former Dean at the University of Illinois College of Law on the Urbana-Champaign campus. [read post]
23 Jun 2024, 9:01 pm
That is not a good sign or a good look, and is definitely something for Court watchers to track going forward.Follow @prof_amar Vikram David Amar is a Distinguished Professor of Law at UC Davis School of Law and a Professor of Law and Former Dean at the University of Illinois Colleg [read post]
19 Jun 2024, 9:01 pm
People are talking (and fretting) a lot these days about the advanced age of candidates for federal office. [read post]
12 Jun 2024, 9:01 pm
An interesting state trial court ruling from Illinois last week, in Colazzo v. [read post]
2 Jun 2024, 9:01 pm
Last week one of my colleagues saw an article in the Sacramento Bee entitled “How Old is Too Old to Serve [on] Jury Duty? [read post]
29 May 2024, 9:01 pm
A few weeks ago, the U.S. [read post]
22 May 2024, 9:00 pm
On May 16, the U.S. [read post]
6 May 2024, 4:00 am
Jonathan Adler (Case Western), Ben Sasse on Speech and Protest at the University of Florida Jonathan Adler (Case Western), WSJ: How Campus Anti-Israel Protestors Were Encouraged and Trained By Outside Activists Vikram David Amar (UC-Davis) & Alan Brownstein (UC-Davis), Why Even Ostensibly Peaceful Expressive “Encampments” at Universities Are Not Immune... [read post]
1 May 2024, 9:01 pm
Debates about the permissibility of protests on college campuses today seem fixated on the notion of violence. [read post]
29 Apr 2024, 9:01 pm
In this, the second of a two-part essay series, we continue to explore the constitutional issues raised by a recent episode in which a public high school (Central Davidson High School in Lexington, North Carolina) imposed disciplinary suspension on a student, Christian McGhee, for invoking the term “illegal alien” when asking a question to his teacher about an assignment. [read post]
28 Apr 2024, 9:01 pm
The two of us just finished co-teaching a law school class focused on the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment, and this semester has not lacked for plenty of cutting-edge, ripped-from-the headlines fodder for us to explore with our students. [read post]
24 Apr 2024, 9:01 pm
Every several years, around this time in the spring semester, I try to collect and update advice to offer to law students as they enter final-exam period (which is about to take place over the next few weeks at virtually every law school in the country). [read post]
16 Apr 2024, 9:01 pm
A year ago, almost to the day, my (co-authored) Verdict column focused on the lessons to be learned from a high-profile and boisterous protest by Stanford Law School students at a Federalist Society Speaker Event featuring Judge Kyle Duncan, a conservative Trump-appointed judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. [read post]
11 Apr 2024, 9:01 pm
In two of my last three Verdict columns (this one and then this one co-authored with Jason Mazzone), I have discussed—in connection with the Supreme Court’s consideration in Trump v. [read post]
24 Mar 2024, 9:01 pm
Earlier this month, in Trump v. [read post]
27 Feb 2024, 9:01 pm
In the space below, we raise and begin to analyze several interesting legal issues raised by the recent decision by a federal district court judge to dismiss the lawsuit filed by the Disney Corporation against Florida officials for alleged retaliation (against Disney’s outspoken opposition to certain Florida laws and policies) by altering the structure of the board that regulates the land in which Disney World is located. [read post]
13 Feb 2024, 10:38 am
Also online there, law professor Vikram David Amar has an essay titled “The Supreme Court’s Oral Argument in Trump v. [read post]
12 Feb 2024, 9:00 pm
The Court’s manipulation of the meaning of Section Three can’t address the basic reality that states can (and ultimately will) do whatever they want as long as we have an electoral college model for picking Presidents, something on which our originalist Constitution is (for better or worse) quite clear.Follow @prof_amar Vikram David Amar is a [read post]