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If you attended law school at any time over the past half-century, your course in constitutional law likely followed a well-worn path. First you learned the basics: the Supreme Court’s power to ...
As landmark decisions and unprecedented constitutional issues have marked historic recent terms for the Supreme Court, Duke Law professors spoke with The Chronicle about teaching constitutional ...
CONSTITUTIONAL LAW How to Change Laws You Don’t Like “It is the law,” said Louisiana’s Democratic Senator Allen J. Ellender of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 that he had opposed so stubbornly.
The United States' democracy is at risk, according to constitutional law expert Erwin Chemerinsky. Chemerinsky said Monday night at the University of Houston Law School that presidential power has ...
The Oklahoma law was an early entrant in the race by a number of state officials to ban Sharia law and international law in response to a loathsome wave of anti-Muslim sentiment that has swept the ...
I also emphasize that constitutional law is often in crisis — it was in the early 1800s, the 1830s, the 1860s and the 1930s. I acknowledge that precedents come and go.
The Pacific Legal Foundation and Catholic University Law Review have posted a call for papers for a symposium on "Searching for Constitutional Limits on Environmental and Natural Resources Law ...
Constitution Day is a good time to consider the issue of whether we have been overly accepting of some horrendous Supreme Court precedents. The Chinese Exclusion Case of 1889 is a great example.
There is absolutely nothing in the text of the Constitution which grants a president immunity from criminal prosecution. Chief Justice John Roberts Jr.'s majority opinion does not suggest otherwise.
Alleged Trump pardon bribery scheme is an ‘extreme abuse of power’, constitutional law expert says ‘Everybody agrees that you can’t pardon someone ahead of the time that they actually ...
July 15, 2023 at 2:38 pm PDT. A federal judge ruled Friday that Measure 114, the gun control law passed by Oregon voters last year limiting magazines over 10 rounds and instituting a permit-to ...
OPINION Andrew McCarthy: Portland riots – it is Trump's constitutional duty to enforce federal law and he should The Constitution says it's the presidents job to enforce the law ...