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Beyond Constitutional Frontiers: Tribal Rights, Resources, And Reform, Monte Mills
Beyond Constitutional Frontiers: Tribal Rights, Resources, And Reform, Monte Mills
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The current era arguably poses the most complex and challenging environmental dilemmas in human history. With climate change, increasingly scarce resources, and exponentially expanding demand, traditional legal notions of standing, harm, and liability are being stretched and reshaped to accommodate a shifting set of values regarding natural resources and potentially respond to the moment. While these novel and innovative approaches are modestly reshaping the fields of natural resources and environmental law, however, the historical and time-honored claims of Indian tribes are also presenting avenues for rethinking the foundations of those areas of law. Arising both within and outside of the …
Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing On “The Citizens United Court And The Continuing Importance Of The Voting Rights Act”, Anthony Johnstone
Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing On “The Citizens United Court And The Continuing Importance Of The Voting Rights Act”, Anthony Johnstone
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My testimony today concerns the role of the Supreme Court in reviewing the constitutionality of “laws of democracy,” including campaign finance regulation, election administration, and voting rights enforcement. I will compare the different approaches the Court has taken toward two controversies, corporate campaign spending and voter identification laws, and attempt to draw some lessons from the comparison for the Court’s pending review of the Voting Rights Act.