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Full-Text Articles in Constitutional Law
Isolation For Profit: How Privately Provided Video Visitation Services Incentivize Bans On In-Person Visitation Within American Correctional Facilities, J. Tanner Lusk
Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice
American correctional facilities are banning in-person visitation in lieu of privately provided and expensive video visitation services. This Note discusses the types of private services provided; how video visitation negatively affects inmates’ mental health and finances; and the ongoing legal battle occurring in Knox County, Tennessee, regarding whether the Knox County Jail’s ban on in-person visitation violates the Constitution. Because of the significant degree of deference courts grant correctional facilities when considering whether challenged regulations violate the Constitution, it will be difficult for the Knox County Jail inmates to successfully argue that the jail has violated their constitutional rights. There …
Originalism And Congressional Power To Enforce The Fourteenth Amendment, Christopher W. Schmidt
Originalism And Congressional Power To Enforce The Fourteenth Amendment, Christopher W. Schmidt
Washington and Lee Law Review Online
In this Essay, I argue that originalism conflicts with the Supreme Court’s current jurisprudence defining the scope of Congress’ power to enforce the Fourteenth Amendment. Under the standard established in Boerne v. Flores, the Court limits congressional power under Section 5 of the Fourteenth Amendment to statutory remedies premised on judicially defined interpretations of Fourteenth Amendment rights. A commitment to originalism as a method of judicial constitutional interpretation challenges the premise of judicial interpretive supremacy in Section 5 jurisprudence in two ways. First, as a matter of history, an originalist reading of Section 5 provides support for broad judicial …
Colorado V. Connelly, Lewis F. Powell Jr.
Colorado V. Connelly, Lewis F. Powell Jr.
Supreme Court Case Files
No abstract provided.
Evitts V. Lucey, Lewis F. Powell, Jr.
Agins V. City Of Tiburon, Lewis F. Powell Jr.
Agins V. City Of Tiburon, Lewis F. Powell Jr.
Supreme Court Case Files
No abstract provided.
Ambach V. Norwick, Lewis F. Powell Jr.
Foley V. Connelie, Lewis F. Powell Jr.
Mullaney V. Wilbur, Lewis F. Powell Jr.
Mullaney V. Wilbur, Lewis F. Powell Jr.
Supreme Court Case Files
No abstract provided.
Lubin V. Panish, Lewis F. Powell Jr.
Ross V. Moffitt, Lewis F. Powell Jr.
Fuller V. Oregon, Lewis F. Powell Jr.