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Scotus Summary: The Supreme Court's Decision In King V. Burwell On Healthcare, Wilson Huhn

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This report analyzes the Supreme Court’s decision in King v. Burwell, which was handed down on June 25, 2015. In this case the Supreme Court revisited the Affordable Care Act, the statute whose constitutionality was upheld in the 2012 case of NFIB v. Sebelius. In NFIB the Court ruled that it was constitutional for Congress to impose a tax on persons who fail to purchase health insurance.

Scotus Summary: Separation Of Powers In Zivotofsky V. Kerry, Wilson Huhn

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Welcome to Supreme Podcast, and the summary of the decision of the Supreme Court in Zivotofsky v. Kerry.

This is a Separation of Powers case involving a dispute between the President and Congress over the recognition of a foreign country, in this case the power of the President to determine which foreign government, if any, has territorial sovereignty over the City of Jerusalem. By a vote of 6-3 the Supreme Court upheld the President’s exclusive and conclusive authority to make that determination.

140th Anniversary Symposium: Fourteenth Amendment Citizenship And The Reconstruction-Era Black Public Sphere, James Fox

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This project delves more deeply into the possible meanings of constitutional citizenship.. Somewhat in the tradition of the popular constitutionalism scholars, it proposes that the best source for meanings of constitutional citizenship will come not from traditionally originalist sources but from those who attempted to redefine citizenship in a more egalitarian and democratic manner and who established, both in word and in practice, meanings for citizenship on the ground. This argument borrows a theoretical framework from political and social theory: the theories of civil society and the public sphere. This captures—in ways often missed by both legal scholars and historians—the …