Posts for October 27, 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 Justice Sonia Sotomayor leads Pomona College class during visit [Inland Daily Bulletin, 10/22/15]: It’s not every
day that you can say a sitting U.S. Supreme Court justice is leading your class
— but for a select few at Pomona College that’s exactly what happened Thursday.
You can see her speaking at
Pomona College on YouTube:
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:
Motor voter: An
electorate in flux [Capitol
Weekly, 10/26/15]: To Democrats, it’s the long-overdue removal of a barricade
to full participation in California’s civic life. To Republicans, it poses a
danger that a flood of illegal immigrants will start participating in political
decision-making.
Legislation and the Legislative Process (TOPIC 20)
Congress, White House
reach two-year budget deal [Wash
Post, 10/27/15]: House Republican leaders introduced legislation just before
midnight on Monday, finalizing a two-year budget agreement between
Congressional leaders and the White House.
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
Confessions of a Grand Juror [The Marshall Project, 10/27/15]: Ten days in a room
with 22 other jurors. What could possibly go wrong?
Resource Officer's Violence Toward Student Raises
Fundamental Question That Most Miss [EdLawProfs
Blog, 10/27/15]: The question here should not be
whether the resource officer used reasonable force. The question should
be why he was in the school to begin with and why, at this very moment, he was
the one directed to resolve the situation.
How Satan
Came to Salem [The
Atlantic, 11/15 issue]: The real story
of the witch trials.
Death Penalty Reversed Over Black Juror Exclusion [Trial Insider / Cal Appellate Blog, 10/26/15]: The
question here is whether the prosecutor improperly used a peremptory challenge to
dismiss the only African-American in the juror pool. Interesting case, with a
split decision, on a hot topic.
The 9th Circuit opinion
in Crittenden
v. Chappell can be found at:
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:
California campus
intolerance policy stirs free-speech fight [AP, 10/26/15]: Students, professors and activists wrangled at a
public forum Monday over how best to address intolerance at the University of
California, with some Jewish groups arguing the schools should adopt a policy
with a more precise definition of anti-Semitism and others saying it would
stifle free speech.
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:
How family wealth really works in America: An
explainer for Donald Trump [Wash
Post, 10/27/15]: This isn't just nitpicking at would-be presidents for their
verbal gaffes. Disparities in intergenerational wealth transfer in America
are a significant part of the gap between the haves and have-nots. They're
also an important piece of
lingering racial inequality in America.
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