JURIST
JUNE 27, 2022
’ ‘ New York Times and the Court’s decisions extending it were policy-driven decisions masquerading as constitutional law.’ ’ Those decisions have ‘no relation to the text, history, or structure of the Constitution.’ As I have said previously, ‘we should.’
Constitutional Law Reporter
FEBRUARY 28, 2022
Supreme Court allowed Alabama to implement a congressional redistricting map that includes only one district with a majority of Black voters. While a lower court agreed with challengers that the map constitutes illegal racial gerrymandering, the Supreme Court granted a stay, effectively putting the order on hold. In Merrill v.
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Constitutional Law Reporter
JANUARY 1, 2024
Constitutional law took center stage in many U.S. In the latest redistricting dispute to reach the Court, the justices found that Alabama had diluted the power of Black voters by drawing a congressional voting map with a single district in which they made up a majority.
Constitutional Law Reporter
OCTOBER 9, 2023
Supreme Court held that challengers showed a reasonable likelihood of success on their claim that an Alabama Congressional redistricting plan likely violated Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. That new map was signed into law as HB1. The Court preliminarily enjoined Alabama from using HB1 in forthcoming elections. In Allen v.
JURIST
NOVEMBER 3, 2022
The crossed-out language is what will be removed from the constitution if Proposal 2 is adopted. According to the author of Proposal 2, Vermont constitutional law professor Peter Teachout, the amendment makes no change to substantive rights. Evidence lies in both the constitutional language and judicial precedent.
Paralegal Bootcamp
NOVEMBER 18, 2022
The partner tells me that the DC partner was the head of the firm’s pro bono department, and I’d be the lead litigation paralegal on a case involving a civil rights violation in Alabama prisons. But here was the catch…all of the documents that were being produced by the state’s prison system weren’t in some admin building in Birmingham.
SCOTUSBlog
MARCH 7, 2022
Alito described the independent-state-legislature theory as “an exceptionally important and recurring question of constitutional law,” and he suggested that the justices “will have to resolve this question sooner or later, and the sooner we do so, the better.” He was referring to Merrill v. The Pennsylvania case.
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