Recent Books on the Constitution
My seminar picks for this year (and every year since 2005)
Can Congress mandate that people in many (most) places wear masks?
Zoom compresses all video uploads, turning the most high-definition stream into grainy video
An 8th Circuit panel makes a hash out of the interpretation of the fractured opinions in SCOTUS' recent June Medical decision
Yes, they are still litigating over her emails.
But it still reaffirmed the validity of the "California rule".
With page limits, advocates are drawn to footnotes, which are single-spaced, in a smaller font, and take up less space.
Cuban ballplayers, regulating Puerto Rico, and the male-only military draft.
The Supreme Court uses different sections to publish different types of opinions and orders.
What enumerated power would allow Congress to require people to wear masks?
In 2016, Professor Laurence Tribe said it was "not settled" whether Ted Cruz was a "Natural Born Citizen."
The pledge, as crafted, will not obtain any meaningful "aggregate-level" statistics.
"The status quo is one in which the challenged requirement has not been in effect, given the rules used in Rhode Island’s last election, and many Rhode Island voters may well hold that belief."
I teach on Mondays and Wednesdays. Property II (9:00-10:15 CT), Constitutional Law (10:30-12:10 CT)
The Maine Supreme Judicial Court asked whether to remove statue of Chief Justice who joined Plessy majority
We should not take for granted that the judges today generally agree on free speech culture.
Might be obvious, but worth noting.
Despite an alarming increase in crime, Illinois is illegally delaying gun licenses.
"That is reparations."
Harris' origins allow her to properly claim Asian or Black/African American legal status, and she has chosen the latter.
This departure from the norm of in-person observation is justified by the pandemic, a federal judge concludes.
Bail bond companies fight to protect their industry, while some civil rights groups worry the reforms won't actually reduce pretrial detentions.
I think the President is hinting, even more strongly, at the executive order proposed in the Cato Amicus brief.
"[A] uniform practice of social security opinions bearing only claimants' initials" might be a good idea in principle, says the Seventh Circuit, but "[g]iven everything that has transpired over the years, we cannot revisit the application of [the] standard practices regarding the publication of judicial decisions and orders in social security matters."