Posts November 14,
2017
These are the posts
that are accumulated in our weekly newsletter which goes out throughout the
school year. The posts are organized by the major units in our Constitutional
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 jurisdiction over the Court of Appeals
for the Armed Forces [The Volokh
Conspiracy, 11/13/17]:
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 American
Presidency [TOPIC 15_
Trump
ready to put his own mark on tax debate [Politico, 11/13/17]: The
president, who's been in touch with senior members of Congress, tweeted on
Monday with specific proposals – none of which are reflected in the proposed
legislation.
The Secret
Correspondence Between Donald Trump Jr. and WikiLeaks [The Atlantic /
Politico, 11/13/17]: The transparency organization asked the president’s son
for his cooperation—in sharing its work, in contesting the results of the
election, and in arranging for Julian Assange to be Australia’s ambassador to
the United States.
Trump choosing white men as judges, highest rate in decades [Reuters / The Hill, 11/13/17]: President Donald Trump is nominating white men to America’s
federal courts at a rate not seen in nearly 30 years, threatening to reverse a
slow transformation toward a judiciary that reflects the nation’s diversity. So
far, 91 percent of Trump’s nominees are white, and 81 percent are male, an
Associated Press analysis has found. Three of every four are white men, with
few African-Americans and Hispanics in the mix. The last president to nominate
a similarly homogenous group was George H.W. Bush.
III. The Political System: Voting and Campaigns
(See Topic 16-20 in
the 5th edition of Constitutional
Law] Here are someecent articles that are relevant to this unit:
The Power o f the Courts
Is Messing Up Politics] MU Times “Saturday Review,” 11/11/17]: As four newly Senate-approved federal appellate judges move into their
chambers seven months after Neil Gorsuch joined the Supreme Court, they may
seem to have vindicated conservatives who swallowed their qualms about Donald
Trump last year out of a conviction that, whatever his flaws, he would save the
judiciary.
New Roy Moore accuser expected to allege
sexual assau [Montgomery Advertiser,
11/13/17]: A woman says Roy Moore sexually assaulted her as a minor in Alabama,
and is scheduled to appear at a press conference in New York this afternoon.
Roy Moore's Defiant Brand Can't Protect Him This Time [Bloomberg, 11/13/17]: A sex scandal should offend his supporters' personal values; His
professional conduct never did.
Legislation and the Legislative
Process (TOPIC 20)
IV. Criminal Law and Procedure
(4th, 5th, 6th, and 8th amendments)
[See TOPICS 21-28 in the 5th
edition of Constitutional Law Profs Blawf] Here are some recent
articles that are relevant to this unit :
FBI report reveals an approximate 5% increase in hate
crimes in 2016 ;Jurist, 11/14/17]:
The FBI released the 2016
Hate Crime Statistics on Monday revealing 7,321 recorded criminal offenses
motivated by bias toward race, ethnicity, ancestry, religion, sexual
orientation, disability, gender and gender identity in comparison to 6,885 of such bias-motivated offenses in the previous year.
D.C. v. Wesby and 4th Amendment Perspective [SSRN, 11/2/17]: T As Justice Kagan noted during oral argument, the
appropriate legal rule seems to change depending on whether we adopt the
perspective of the arresting officers or the party-going arrestees.
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:
Doubling Down on a
Deeply Troubling Argument in Masterpiece
Cakeshop [“Take Care” blog, 11/14/17]: or a good reminder of why we
have civil rights laws, consider the following statemens…
Where do we learn to sexually harass each other? Why,
in school, of course [SF Chron
opinion, 11/14/17]: Locker-room talk. That’s what Donald Trump called the tape
that went viral last year, showing him boasting about sexually assaulting
women. He didn’t do the bad things on the tape, Trump said; he simply talked
about them. Like you would, say, in a locker room at school.
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