Posts for August 31, 2015
These are the posts that are accumulated in our
newsletter which goes out every 4-6 days during the school year. The posts are
organized by the major units in our Con Law (5th ed.) student textbook.
I.
Introduction to Law, the Constitution, and the Supreme Court [See TOPICS 1-10 in the 5th edition of Constitutional
Law] Here are some recent articles that are relevant to
this unit:
Supreme
Court's 'Long Conference': Where Appeals 'Go to Die' [NY Times’
“Sidebar.” 8/30/15]: Four
weeks from now, on Sept. 28, the Supreme
Court justices will gather in private for an annual ritual called the “long conference.”
They will consider the roughly 2,000 petitions to hear appeals that have piled
up over the summer. And they will reject almost every one.
Stealing the Bill of Rights [Gerard Magliocca in “Concurring Opinions,”
8/31/15]: “I wanted to share a story about the Bill of
Rights that I had not heard before, though perhaps some of you have.”
II.
Defining the Political System: Federalism and Checks and Balances [See TOPICS 11-15 in the 5th
edition of Constitutional Law] Here are recent articles that are
relevant to this unit:
The Rehabilitationists [The New Republic, 8/30/15]: How a
small band of determined legal academics set out to persuade the Supreme Court
to undo the New Deal -- and have almost won.
III. The Political System: Voting and
Campaigns [See TOPICS 16-20 in the 5th edition of Constitutional
Law] Here are some recent articles that are relevant to this unit:
Risks, rewards for
Republicans insulting entire groups of people [SF Chron, 8/30/15]: It’s already been called the Year of the
Angry Voter, but 2015 could also turn out to be the Year of the Insulted Voter.
http://www.sfchronicle.com/nation/article/Risks-rewards-for-Republicans-insulting-entire-6474929.php?t=21375ddc6100af33be&cmpid=twitter-premium
Trump Is Setting the GOP
Agenda [Politico, 8/30/15]:
Every Republican presidential contender is playing Trump’s game. And losing at
it.
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/08/donald-trump-2016-setting-gop-agenda-213088
IV. Criminal Law and Procedure (4th,
5th, 6th, and 8th amendments) [See TOPICS 21-28 in the 5th edition of Constitutional Law] Here are some recent
articles that are relevant to this unit
City cannot govern where
sex offenders live, Massachusetts high court rules [Jurist, 8/30/15]: The
Massachusetts Supreme Court on Friday ruled that a city within the state has no right to pass
ordinances restricting where sex offenders can live. The ruling invalidates the "Ordinance Pertaining to
Sex Offender Residency Restrictions in the City of Lynn" which created a
zone where level two and three sex offenders were prohibited from residing.
The
death penalty in early America: the Witches of Salem [New
Yorker, 9/2/15]: In 1692,
the Massachusetts Bay Colony executed fourteen women, five men, and two dogs
for witchcraft.
V. 1st
Amendment (Speech, Religion, Press and Assembly) [See TOPICS 29-33 in the 5th
edition of Constitutional Law] Here are
some recent articles that are relevant to this unit:
Off Their Front Porch: Protesters
Have No Free-Speech Rights On Supreme Court Plaza [Huff Post, 8/30/15]: An appellate
court ruled the Constitution doesn't apply with equal force on the high court's
plaza.
VI. 14th
Amendment, Discrimination, Privacy, Working, Citizenship & Immigration [See TOPICS 34-41 in the 5th edition of Constitutional
Law]
Here are some recent articles that are
relevant to this unit:
The Rise and Fall (and Rise) of Anti-Semitism Here
and Abroad [Justia, 8/31/15]: Professor Rotunda discusses relative change in
attitudes toward Jews in the United States and elsewhere in the world.
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