Posts for October 28, 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:
Justice Kennedy says officials must follow law
or resign [SF Chron, 10/27/15]: The author of the Supreme Court ruling that legalized
same-sex marriage nationwide has a suggestion for Kim Davis and other county clerks who feel torn between their
religious scruples and their duty to issue marriage licenses to all legally
qualified couples: Follow the law or resign.
Justice
Ginsburg's Warning To A Dysfunctional Nation [ThinkProgress, 10/28/15]: Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has been
a national figure for at least half of her life. As founding director of the
ACLU’s Women’s Rights Project, Ginsburg probably did more than any other
litigator in the nation’s history to
abolish sex discrimination and gender stereotyping.
Adam Liptak and Steven Mazie: The 10
Toughest Cases of the 2014-15 Term [Nat. Constitution Center, 10/28/15]: Streamed live 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:
Constitution Check: Is Obamacare headed for new trouble? [Constitution Daily / Jurist, 10/28/15]: Lyle Denniston, the National Constitution Center’s
constitutional literacy adviser, looks at the two latest court challenges to
the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, which involve two constitutional
clauses.
Why
Pro-Life and Pro-Animal Violence Are Immoral [Justia, 10/28/15]: Professor Colb discusses
the moral status of perpetrating violence to express opposition to abortion and
to animal killing and cruelty.
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:
Money churns in Carson,
Inc. [Politico, 10/27/15]: Ben
Carson isn't paying senior adviser Mike Murray a salary. But the Republican
presidential contender is pouring millions into companies connected to Murray,
one of the dozens of operatives benefiting from a surge in grass-roots
donations to Carson.
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
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:
Smolla & Abrams to file First Amendment brief in
Redskins trademark case [Concurring Opinions,
10/28/15]: The
case is Pro-Football, Inc. v. Blackhorse, which is
currently pending in the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth
Circuit. As District Court Judge Gerald Bruce Lee described it in his opinion, this
“case concerns Blackhorse Defendants’ petition to cancel the
registration of six trademarks owned by PFI on the grounds that the marks
consisted of matter that ‘may disparage’ a substantial composite of Native
Americans and bring them into contempt or disrepute under Section 2(a) of the Lanham
Act at the time of their registrations (1967, 1974, 1978, and 1990).”
The
District Court’s opinion can be found at:
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:
UT to Supreme Court: We Need Affirmative Action [Texas Tribune, 10/26/15]: The University of Texas at Austin needs to consider race
in admissions if it wants a diverse, representative student body, the school
told the U.S. Supreme Court 0n Monday in a 70-page brief filed in
advance of oral arguments in the case Fisher v. The University of Texas at Austin.
International Law, Citizenship and Immigration [TOPIC 40-42]
A Black Hole for Americans' Rights Abroad [Bloomberg View, 10/27/15]: Can an American detained and allegedly tortured by the FBI at
black sites outside the U.S. sue for damages? A panel of the U.S. Court of
Appeals for the D.C. Circuit said no last week, on the ground that the
violations of the citizen’s rights took place abroad.
Read the story about the
decision at:
Read the decision in Meshal
v. Higgenbotham at:
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