Posts for October 20, 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.
In Defense of the Lecture [NY Times, 10/19/15]:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/18/opinion/sunday/lecture-me-really.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur&_r=0
Civic
Action Project Reaches Students in 46 States [CRF, 10/19/15]: CAP continues to empower students
with the knowledge, skills, and dispositions necessary for effective
citizenship.
For free Common Core lessons
from the CRF:
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 takes on another high-stakes FERC case [Greenwire / CNS, 10/19/15]:
The Supreme Court today
agreed to tackle its second major case of this term surrounding state and
federal turf lines in electricity markets.
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:
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:
Why Today’s
GOP Crackup Is the Final Unraveling of Nixon’s ‘Southern Strategy’ [The Nation, 10/12/15]: Tea Party rebels are exposing the deep rifts
between country-club elites and social-issue hard-liners.
Legislation and the Legislative Process (TOPIC 20)
Right-To-Die Law Faces
Delays, Challenges [CPR,
10/19/15]: A political move to make physician-assisted suicide legal in
California may have long-lasting consequences. Supporters could not get the
bill approved in the regular legislative session, so they reintroduced it
during a special session on health care. The governor has signed the bill into
law. But it won’t take effect until the special session ends. That likely won’t
happen for months.
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
What Would You Ask the President About Reforming
America’s Criminal Justice System?
[The Marshall Project, 11/20/15]: Join the
conversation by submitting your question for President Obama.
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:
School Gets Lesson for Barring Lesbian T-Shirt [CNS, 10/20/15]: A
NorCal high school that sent a girl home for wearing a "Nobody knows I'm a
lesbian" T-shirt, claiming she was "promoting sex," is facing a
federal lawsuit for it.
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:
Surprising New Findings on the Academic Outcomes of
Racial Segregation [EdLawProfs Blog,
10/20/15]: A
recent study by the National Center for Education Statistics at the
U.S. Department of Education reached some new conclusions regarding the
achievement gap between black and white students.
Also see “Teacher-Student Relationships and the
Achievement Gap”:
Supreme
Court Landmark Case, Slaughterhouse Cases [C-SPAN,
10/19/15]: Paul Clement
and Michael Ross talked about the 1873 Supreme Court ruling on the Slaughterhouse
Cases, in which the court declined 5-4 to broadly apply the Fourteenth
Amendment when New Orleans butchers unions objected to a slaughterhouse
monopoly.
State labor panel to file
injunction in charter school unionization push [LA Times, 10/19/15]: California's labor
oversight board said it intends to file for an injunction to prohibit one of
the state's largest charter organizations from interfering with efforts to
unionize teachers.
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