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3 Feb 2020, 9:01 pm
No, it isn’t law professor Alan Dershowitz’s claim that “abuses of power” that are neither formal crimes nor “crime-like” can never constitute impeachable high crimes and misdemeanors. [read post]
23 Jan 2020, 9:01 pm
In 2011, in Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church and School v. [read post]
9 Jan 2020, 9:01 pm
Freeing senators from party-leader retribution would be nice, but there is simply no way to do that without freeing senators from accountability to the people of the states (who themselves may prefer to be as intensely partisan as their leaders are in today’s moment), which is the whole point of popular election of senators.Follow @prof_amar Vikram David Amar is the Dean and Iwan Foundation Professor of Law at the University of… [read post]
2 Jan 2020, 9:01 pm
There remains uncertainty about exactly how the Senate will conduct impeachment trial proceedings on the two articles of impeachment for President Trump adopted by the House of Representatives last month. [read post]
11 Dec 2019, 9:01 pm
In Parts One and Two of this series, we introduced an important pending federal court challenge to Mississippi’s gubernatorial election regime, situated the dispute in constitutional context, and examined various procedural aspects of the case. [read post]
1 Dec 2019, 9:01 pm
As we explained in a column a few weeks ago, Part One in a series, an important federal lawsuit challenging Mississippi’s scheme for electing governors is wending its way through the federal courts. [read post]
14 Nov 2019, 9:01 pm
Last week Mississippi voters went to the polls to elect a new governor. [read post]
31 Oct 2019, 9:01 pm
Indeed, at public universities like the one where I serve as a professor and a law dean, it is somewhat ironic (but clearly true) that, as far as the First Amendment is concerned, students have greater First Amendment freedoms than the professors who are charged with teaching them about the First Amendment.Follow @prof_amar Vikram David Amar is the Dean and Iwan Foundation Professor of Law at the University of Illinois College of Law… [read post]
9 Oct 2019, 9:01 pm
Earlier this month Sacramento-based federal district judge Morrison England issued a preliminary injunction blocking implementation of California’s recently enacted law that denies ballot access to presidential (and gubernatorial) candidates who have chosen not to release their tax returns. [read post]
3 Oct 2019, 9:01 pm
Jason: Vik, as you know, last month three Virginia couples sued their state in federal court challenging a law requiring them to identify and report their race on the state’s marriage license application form. [read post]
11 Sep 2019, 9:01 pm
Of course, the North Carolina Supreme Court could conceivably overrule the lower state courts’ understanding of North Carolina law, but it appears that the State Attorney General does not plan a state supreme court appeal, leaving Lewis as the final word on this matter, for now, in the state.Follow @prof_amar Vikram David Amar is the Dean and Iwan Foundation Professor of Law at the University of Illinois College of Law on the… [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]
3 Sep 2019, 9:01 pm
Given the difficulty of amending the Constitution, it will not likely be abolished any time soon.Accordingly, reformers have been seeking to circumvent the Electoral College without a constitutional amendment, based on an idea originally proposed by law professors including my fellow Verdict columnist Dean Vikram Amar. [read post]
16 Aug 2019, 10:00 am
Vikram David Amar (Dean, Illinois), Why Challenges to California’s Tax-Return-Disclosure Law Should Fail (Putting Aside Whether They Will) Bloomberg editorial, Trump’s Tax Returns Are Essential Reading Bloomberg Tax, California Presidential Tax Return Suits Could Be Consolidated Bloomberg Tax, Trump Opposes Consolidation of California Tax Return Lawsuits The Hill, NY Files... [read post]
11 Aug 2019, 9:01 pm
Republican Party leaders and President Trump’s legal team have gone to court to block implementation of California’s newly enacted law that denies ballot access to presidential candidates who have chosen not to release their tax returns. [read post]
5 Aug 2019, 6:10 am
“Paying Tribute to Justice Breyer’s Quarter Century on the Court”: Law professor Vikram David Amar has this essay online at Justia’s Verdict. [read post]
1 Aug 2019, 4:17 am
” At Justia’s Verdict blog, Vikram David Amar notes that “August 3 marks Stephen Breyer’s completion of 25 years of service as a justice. [read post]
31 Jul 2019, 9:01 pm
The recent passing of retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens has rightly generated numerous tributes and commentaries discussing the dozens of high-profile opinions he wrote during his almost-35 years on the Court. [read post]
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]
1 Jul 2019, 9:01 pm
As is typical, the Supreme Court this year delivered some of its biggest rulings at the end of the term. [read post]
