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17 Jul 2019, 9:01 pm
One of the most-watched set of Supreme Court cases last term involved efforts by reformers to enlist the federal judiciary in the fight to rein in what some people believe is problematically aggressive partisan gerrymandering. [read post]
27 Sep 2023, 9:01 pm
This is an important week for determining the fate of congressional district lines in the state of New Mexico. [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]
16 Sep 2020, 9:01 pm
My thoughts and prayers go out to the (tens of) thousands of students who are slated to take remote bar exams in several states (including large states like California, New York, and Illinois) a little over two weeks from now, on October 5 and 6. [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]
16 Sep 2021, 9:01 pm
But we need be careful not to focus on the work of the drafters at the Philadelphia Convention in a way that obscures the grievous imperfections in their work product, or (more happily) the ways in which Americans have worked hard (and sacrificed so much) in the two centuries since to correct those imperfections, an enterprise that continues to this day.Follow @prof_amar Vikram David Amar is the Dean and Iwan Foundation Professor of Law at… [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]
19 Jun 2014, 9:01 pm
In the space below, I analyze a pending effort by California lawmakers to cleanse the California statute books of (what are to my mind) some mean-spirited provisions concerning the treatment of undocumented immigrants in the State. [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]
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]
5 Nov 2015, 9:01 pm
In the space below, we analyze the essential issues raised in Spokeo v. [read post]
3 Dec 2015, 9:01 pm
In the space below, I preview a case to be argued in the Supreme Court next week, Harris v. [read post]
4 Sep 2019, 9:01 pm
As my fellow Verdict columnist Professor Michael Dorf explained in his most recent column, the U.S. [read post]
9 Sep 2021, 9:01 pm
Relatedly, even though the specifics of a reform package need to be worked out, legislative leaders in California should proclaim publicly on Monday of next week, before anyone knows the fate of Gavin Newsom or his would-be successors, that a significant set of reforms will be forthcoming, so as to minimize the perception that reformers want to make changes only if their candidate loses under the current rules.Follow @prof_amar Vikram David… [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]
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]
29 Jan 2015, 9:01 pm
In my last column, I explored some aspects of an important case, Arizona Legislature v. [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]
