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State Lawmakers Must Step In To Remedy Supreme Court Voting Rights Blunder, Rachel Landy, Jarrett Berg
State Lawmakers Must Step In To Remedy Supreme Court Voting Rights Blunder, Rachel Landy, Jarrett Berg
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This June, a 6-3 Supreme Court decision further eroded the Voting Rights Act (VRA) by upholding an Arizona law that disqualifies ballots cast by voters at any poll site other than the one assigned — an administrative technicality that has been shown to disproportionately impact minority communities in multiple states.
Who Defends: Judge Sutton's Vision And The Challenge Of A Plural Executive, Katherine A. Shaw
Who Defends: Judge Sutton's Vision And The Challenge Of A Plural Executive, Katherine A. Shaw
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It’s no secret that this is a perilous moment for American democracy. We’re nine months out from a deadly attack on the U.S. Capitol, launched with the explicit goal of disrupting the peaceful transfer of power following the 2020 presidential election. Congress appears gridlocked on basic questions of debt and spending, and the possibility of a default before the end of the year remains a live one, with the covid pandemic still ongoing. The U.S. Supreme Court is facing an unprecedented legitimacy deficit in the eyes of the public. Election experts warn that future American elections, including the 2024 election, …
For Facebook’S Sake: Getting Conversant With Human Rights, Deborah Pearlstein
For Facebook’S Sake: Getting Conversant With Human Rights, Deborah Pearlstein
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Each time I read a new article or interview with an American lawyer or legal scholar reacting to the recent decision by the Facebook Oversight Board (FOB) to invoke international human rights law in sustaining Facebook’s suspension of Donald Trump – I feel seized by the impulse to respond with an unsolicited public primer on what international human rights law (IHRL) is. It is not an unfamiliar feeling. On the contrary, the impulse (which I experience as uncomfortably paternalistic) has emerged repeatedly in the past, say, 20 years, during any one of countless exchanges with lawyers or academics who have …
Defending "Universal Vacatur" - Nationwide Injunctions For Administrative Law, Michael E. Herz
Defending "Universal Vacatur" - Nationwide Injunctions For Administrative Law, Michael E. Herz
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The nationwide injunction has seized the imagination of courts and law professors in recent years. Not surprisingly, JOTWELL’s pages screens have given it extensive attention. Recent jots have described important work by Samuel Bray (twice), Amanda Frost (also twice), Russell Weaver, and Alan Trammell that attacks, defends, or theorizes nationwide (or “universal”) injunctions. Jack Beermann, in praising Bray and Frost, did have one complaint: “As an administrative law nut, I wish they both grappled more with the meaning of the APA’s instruction that reviewing courts should ‘hold unlawful and set aside’ unlawful agency action.” Mila Sohoni has now filled that …