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2019

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The Federalist Society Majority, Lawrence Baum, Neal Devins Oct 2019

The Federalist Society Majority, Lawrence Baum, Neal Devins

Neal E. Devins

No abstract provided.


Split Definitive: How Party Polarization Turned The Supreme Court Into A Partisan Court, Neal Devins, Lawrence Baum Sep 2019

Split Definitive: How Party Polarization Turned The Supreme Court Into A Partisan Court, Neal Devins, Lawrence Baum

Neal E. Devins

No abstract provided.


Unitariness And Independence: Solicitor General Control Over Independent Agency Litigation, Neal Devins Sep 2019

Unitariness And Independence: Solicitor General Control Over Independent Agency Litigation, Neal Devins

Neal E. Devins

With a few exceptions, the Solicitor General controls all aspects of independent agency litigation before the Supreme Court. Solicitor General control of Supreme Court litigation creates a tension between independent agency freedom and the Solicitor General's authority. On the one hand, Solicitor General control provides the United States with a unitary voice before the Supreme Court, and provides the Court with a trustworthy litigator to explicate the government's position. On the other hand, such control may undermine the autonomy of independent agency decision making. In this Article, the author argues for a hybrid model of independent agency litigation in the …


What Standards Apply When Freedoms Collide?, Neal Devins Sep 2019

What Standards Apply When Freedoms Collide?, Neal Devins

Neal E. Devins

No abstract provided.


What Brown Teaches Us About The Rehnquist Court's Federalism Revival, Neal Devins Sep 2019

What Brown Teaches Us About The Rehnquist Court's Federalism Revival, Neal Devins

Neal E. Devins

No abstract provided.


Who Is Injured When Racially Discriminatory Private Schools Are Tax-Exempt?, Neal Devins Sep 2019

Who Is Injured When Racially Discriminatory Private Schools Are Tax-Exempt?, Neal Devins

Neal E. Devins

No abstract provided.


The Possible Final Word On Employment Discrimination Relief, Neal Devins Sep 2019

The Possible Final Word On Employment Discrimination Relief, Neal Devins

Neal E. Devins

No abstract provided.


The Last Word Debate: How Social And Political Forces Shape Constitutional Values, Neal Devins Sep 2019

The Last Word Debate: How Social And Political Forces Shape Constitutional Values, Neal Devins

Neal E. Devins

No abstract provided.


The Federalism-Rights Nexus: Explaining Why Senate Democrats Tolerate Rehnquist Court Decision Making But Not The Rehnquist Court, Neal Devins Sep 2019

The Federalism-Rights Nexus: Explaining Why Senate Democrats Tolerate Rehnquist Court Decision Making But Not The Rehnquist Court, Neal Devins

Neal E. Devins

No abstract provided.


The D'Oh! Of Popular Constiutitonalism, Neal Devins Sep 2019

The D'Oh! Of Popular Constiutitonalism, Neal Devins

Neal E. Devins

No abstract provided.


The Amicus Machine, Allison Orr Larsen, Neal Devins Sep 2019

The Amicus Machine, Allison Orr Larsen, Neal Devins

Neal E. Devins

The Supreme Court receives a record number of amicus curiae briefs and cites to them with increasing regularity. Amicus briefs have also become influential in determining which cases the Court will hear. It thus becomes important to ask: Where do these briefs come from? The traditional tale describes amicus briefs as the product of interest-group lobbying. But that story is incomplete and outdated. Today, skilled and specialized advocates of the Supreme Court Bar strategize about what issues the Court should hear and from whom they should hear them. They then “wrangle” the necessary amici and “whisper” to coordinate the message. …


Split Definitive, Lawrence Baum, Neal Devins Sep 2019

Split Definitive, Lawrence Baum, Neal Devins

Neal E. Devins

For the first time in a century, the Supreme Court is divided solely by political party.


Social Meaning And School Vouchers, Neal Devins Sep 2019

Social Meaning And School Vouchers, Neal Devins

Neal E. Devins

No abstract provided.


Righting Past Wrongs: When Affirmative Action May Be Reverse Discrimination, Neal Devins Sep 2019

Righting Past Wrongs: When Affirmative Action May Be Reverse Discrimination, Neal Devins

Neal E. Devins

No abstract provided.


School Desegregation Law In The 1980'S: The Courts' Abandonment Of Brown V. Board Of Education, Neal Devins Sep 2019

School Desegregation Law In The 1980'S: The Courts' Abandonment Of Brown V. Board Of Education, Neal Devins

Neal E. Devins

No abstract provided.


Reanimator: Mark Tushnet And The Second Coming Of The Imperial Presidency, Neal Devins Sep 2019

Reanimator: Mark Tushnet And The Second Coming Of The Imperial Presidency, Neal Devins

Neal E. Devins

No abstract provided.


Residency Requirements For Attorneys: Home Is Where The License Is?, Neal Devins Sep 2019

Residency Requirements For Attorneys: Home Is Where The License Is?, Neal Devins

Neal E. Devins

No abstract provided.


Ideological Imbalance: Why Democrats Usually Pick Moderate-Liberal Justices And Republicans Usually Pick Conservative Ones, Lawrence Baum, Neal Devins Sep 2019

Ideological Imbalance: Why Democrats Usually Pick Moderate-Liberal Justices And Republicans Usually Pick Conservative Ones, Lawrence Baum, Neal Devins

Neal E. Devins

No abstract provided.


Federal Funds To Religious Groups: Where Are The First Amendment Boundaries?, Neal Devins Sep 2019

Federal Funds To Religious Groups: Where Are The First Amendment Boundaries?, Neal Devins

Neal E. Devins

No abstract provided.


Federalist Court: How The Federalist Society Became The De Facto Selector Of Republican Supreme Court Justices, Lawrence Baum, Neal Devins Sep 2019

Federalist Court: How The Federalist Society Became The De Facto Selector Of Republican Supreme Court Justices, Lawrence Baum, Neal Devins

Neal E. Devins

No abstract provided.


The Structural Safeguards Of Federal Jurisdiction, Tara Leigh Grove Sep 2019

The Structural Safeguards Of Federal Jurisdiction, Tara Leigh Grove

Tara L. Grove

Scholars have long debated Congress’s power to curb federal jurisdiction and have consistently assumed that the constitutional limits on Congress’s authority (if any) must be judicially enforceable and found in the text and structure of Article III. In this Article, I challenge that fundamental assumption. I argue that the primary constitutional protection for the federal judiciary lies instead in the bicameralism and presentment requirements of Article I. These Article I lawmaking procedures give competing political factions (even political minorities) considerable power to “veto” legislation. Drawing on recent social science and legal scholarship, I argue that political factions are particularly likely …


The Exceptions Clause As A Structural Safeguard, Tara Leigh Grove Sep 2019

The Exceptions Clause As A Structural Safeguard, Tara Leigh Grove

Tara L. Grove

Scholars have long treated the Exceptions Clause of Article III as a serious threat to the Supreme Court’s central constitutional function: establishing definitive and uniform rules of federal law. This Article argues that scholars have overlooked an important function of the Clause. Congress has repeatedly used its broad “exceptions power” to facilitate, not to undermine, the Supreme Court’s constitutional role. Drawing on insights from social science, this Article asserts that Congress has an incentive to use its control over federal jurisdiction to promote the Court’s role in settling disputed federal questions. Notably, this argument has considerable historical support. When the …


The Structural Case For Vertical Maximalism, Tara Leigh Grove Sep 2019

The Structural Case For Vertical Maximalism, Tara Leigh Grove

Tara L. Grove

Many prominent jurists and scholars, including those with outlooks as diverse as Chief Justice John Roberts and Cass Sunstein, have recently advocated a “minimalist” approach to opinion writing at the Supreme Court. They assert that the Court should issue narrow, fact-bound decisions that do not resolve much beyond the case before it. I argue that minimalism, as employed by the current Supreme Court, is in tension with the structure of the Constitution. Article III and the Supremacy Clause, along with historical evidence from the Founding Era, suggest that the Constitution creates a hierarchical judiciary and gives the Court a “supreme” …


Supreme Court Preview 2014-2015: Moot Court, Neal Devins, Michael Scodro, Andrew Pincus, Joan Biskupic, Garrett Epps, Irving Gornstein, Tara Leigh Grove, Allison Orr Larsen, Dahlia Lithwick, Erin E. Murphy, David Savage, Richard Wolf Sep 2019

Supreme Court Preview 2014-2015: Moot Court, Neal Devins, Michael Scodro, Andrew Pincus, Joan Biskupic, Garrett Epps, Irving Gornstein, Tara Leigh Grove, Allison Orr Larsen, Dahlia Lithwick, Erin E. Murphy, David Savage, Richard Wolf

Tara L. Grove

No abstract provided.


Supreme Court Preview 2014-2015: First Amendment, Timothy Zick, Walter E. Dellinger Iii, Paul Smith, Dahlia Lithwick Sep 2019

Supreme Court Preview 2014-2015: First Amendment, Timothy Zick, Walter E. Dellinger Iii, Paul Smith, Dahlia Lithwick

Timothy Zick

No abstract provided.


Marbury Ascendant: The Rehnquist Court And The Power To "Say What The Law Is", Timothy Zick Sep 2019

Marbury Ascendant: The Rehnquist Court And The Power To "Say What The Law Is", Timothy Zick

Timothy Zick

No abstract provided.


The Non-Impact Of The United States Supreme Court Regulatory Takings Cases On The State Courts: Does The Supreme Court Really Matter?, Ronald H. Rosenberg Sep 2019

The Non-Impact Of The United States Supreme Court Regulatory Takings Cases On The State Courts: Does The Supreme Court Really Matter?, Ronald H. Rosenberg

Ronald H. Rosenberg

No abstract provided.


The Supreme Court And The Privilege Against Self-Incrimination: Has The Burger Court Retreated?, Paul Marcus Sep 2019

The Supreme Court And The Privilege Against Self-Incrimination: Has The Burger Court Retreated?, Paul Marcus

Paul Marcus

No abstract provided.


The Crime Of Conspiracy Thrives In Decisions Of The United States Supreme Court, Paul Marcus Sep 2019

The Crime Of Conspiracy Thrives In Decisions Of The United States Supreme Court, Paul Marcus

Paul Marcus

No abstract provided.


The Future Of Transferable Development Rights In The Supreme Court, Linda A. Malone Sep 2019

The Future Of Transferable Development Rights In The Supreme Court, Linda A. Malone

Linda A. Malone

No abstract provided.