Posts for November 30, 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.
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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:
In
Scalia lecture, Kagan discusses statutory interpretation [Harvard
Law Today, 11/25/15]: On
Nov. 17, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court Elena Kagan, former dean
of Harvard Law School, discussed statutory interpretation in a conversation
with Professor John Manning as part of the Scalia lecture series at
Harvard Law School.
You can view it 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:
Argument
preview: States' legal immunity at stake [SCOTUS blog, 11/30/15]: One of the constitutional puzzles
that never seems to get decided once and for all is how much sovereignty
the states kept when they became part of the Union. One of the true
hallmarks of a sovereign is that it cannot be sued without its consent. A
California state agency, supported by most of the other states, is trying
to persuade the Supreme Court to immunize states from being haled into other
states’ courts, against their will.
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:
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
The Execution of Joseph Wood [CBS 60 Minutes, 11/29/15]: An
execution of a man in Arizona with a new cocktail of drugs was supposed to take
about 10 minutes; It took almost two hours, the longest execution in U.S.
history. View the 60 Minutes segment:
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:
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:
Supreme
Court should learn from Prop. 209 mistake [Fresno Bee editorial,
11/20/15]: It
has been nearly 20 years since California voters banned affirmative action in
college admissions. Campus diversity here has never recovered from the chain
saw that was Proposition 209.
When the mother is a soldier [USA Today, 11/27/15]: Supreme Court
needs to correct a 1950 ruling resulting in military gender discrimination.
International Law, Citizenship and Immigration [TOPIC 40-42]
Gay marriage is legal but not on tribal lands [AP, 11/27/15]: Cleo
Pablo married her longtime partner when gay weddings became legal in Arizona
and looked forward to the day when her wife and their children could move into
her home in the small Native American community outside Phoenix where she grew up. American Indian reservations are not bound by the
decision and many continue to forbid gay marriages and deny insurance and other
benefits.
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