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Voting Under The Federal Constitution, Travis Crum 2024 Washington University in St. Louis School of Law

Voting Under The Federal Constitution, Travis Crum

Scholarship@WashULaw

There is no explicit, affirmative right to vote in the federal Constitution. At the Founding, States had total discretion to choose their electorate. Although that electorate was the most democratic in history, the franchise was largely limited to property-owning White men. Over the course of two centuries, the United States democratized, albeit in fits and starts. The right to vote was often expanded in response to wartime service and mobilization.

A series of constitutional amendments prohibited discrimination in voting on account of race (Fifteenth), sex (Nineteenth), inability to pay a poll tax (Twenty-Fourth), and age (Twenty-Sixth). These amendments were worded …


James Oakes's Treatment Of The First Confiscation Act In Freedom National: The Destruction Of Slavery In The United States, 1861-1865, Angi Porter 2023 American University Washington College of Law

James Oakes's Treatment Of The First Confiscation Act In Freedom National: The Destruction Of Slavery In The United States, 1861-1865, Angi Porter

Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals

In his work, Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861-1865, James Oakes provides an overview of several Civil War era legal instruments regarding enslavement in the United States. One of the statutes he examines is An Act to Confiscate Property Used for Insurrectionary Purposes, passed by the Thirty Seventh Congress in August, 1861. This law, popularly known as the First Confiscation Act (FCA), is one of the several "Confiscation Acts" that contributed to the weakening of legal enslavement during the War. Fortunately, scholars have contextualized and deemphasized President Lincoln's role as the "Great Emancipator" by examining …


Ftc Non-Compete Ban, Olivia Kuenzi 2023 Case Western Reserve University School of Law

Ftc Non-Compete Ban, Olivia Kuenzi

The Reporter: Social Justice Law Center Magazine

No abstract provided.


The ‘100-Mile Border Zone’ And The Surveillance Of Frontline Immigrant Advocates, Brandon Burkey, Isabella Jackson 2023 Case Western Reserve University School of Law

The ‘100-Mile Border Zone’ And The Surveillance Of Frontline Immigrant Advocates, Brandon Burkey, Isabella Jackson

The Reporter: Social Justice Law Center Magazine

No abstract provided.


Commentary: Shoop V. Twyford, Bridget Coyne, Vegas Kastberg 2023 Case Western Reserve University School of Law

Commentary: Shoop V. Twyford, Bridget Coyne, Vegas Kastberg

The Reporter: Social Justice Law Center Magazine

No abstract provided.


The Most Important Law You’Ve Never Heard Of: Section 1981 And Its Potential Social Justice Issues, Isaac Hampton Verhelst 2023 Case Western Reserve University School of Law

The Most Important Law You’Ve Never Heard Of: Section 1981 And Its Potential Social Justice Issues, Isaac Hampton Verhelst

The Reporter: Social Justice Law Center Magazine

No abstract provided.


The Aftermath: How Cities Do And Don’T Enforce Accountability Following Police Killings, Olivia Cobb, Hannah Scifres 2023 Case Western Reserve University School of Law

The Aftermath: How Cities Do And Don’T Enforce Accountability Following Police Killings, Olivia Cobb, Hannah Scifres

The Reporter: Social Justice Law Center Magazine

No abstract provided.


Diverse Representation In Clinical Research Matters, Nneka Onyekwuluje 2023 Case Western Reserve University School of Law

Diverse Representation In Clinical Research Matters, Nneka Onyekwuluje

The Reporter: Social Justice Law Center Magazine

No abstract provided.


Student Loans And The Supreme Court: Borrowers’ Futures At Risk, Jordan Weeks, Elizabeth Martinez 2023 Case Western Reserve University School of Law

Student Loans And The Supreme Court: Borrowers’ Futures At Risk, Jordan Weeks, Elizabeth Martinez

The Reporter: Social Justice Law Center Magazine

No abstract provided.


Chilling Speech In The Name Of 'Woke': A Critique Of The Stop W.O.K.E. Act, Mia Guy, Kelsey Moore 2023 Case Western Reserve University School of Law

Chilling Speech In The Name Of 'Woke': A Critique Of The Stop W.O.K.E. Act, Mia Guy, Kelsey Moore

The Reporter: Social Justice Law Center Magazine

No abstract provided.


Deliberate Indifference: An Impossible Standard, Caroline Kish 2023 Case Western Reserve University School of Law

Deliberate Indifference: An Impossible Standard, Caroline Kish

The Reporter: Social Justice Law Center Magazine

No abstract provided.


Circumvention Of Lawful Pathways, Luke Antonczak 2023 Case Western Reserve University School of Law

Circumvention Of Lawful Pathways, Luke Antonczak

The Reporter: Social Justice Law Center Magazine

No abstract provided.


The Expungement Dilemma: Amended Ohio Rev. Cod Ann. § 2953.521(A) (West 2023), Eleanor Salsbury 2023 Case Western Reserve University School of Law

The Expungement Dilemma: Amended Ohio Rev. Cod Ann. § 2953.521(A) (West 2023), Eleanor Salsbury

The Reporter: Social Justice Law Center Magazine

No abstract provided.


United States Of America V. Donald J. Trump, Defendant, Jack Smith 2023 Special Counsel, DOJ

United States Of America V. Donald J. Trump, Defendant, Jack Smith

U.S. Department of Justice Publications and Materials

Violations: Count 1: 18 U.S.C. § 371 (Conspiracy to Defraud the United States) Count 2: 18 U.S.C. § 1512(k) (Conspiracy to Obstruct an Official Proceeding) Count 3: 18 U.S.C. §§ 1512(c)(2), 2 (Obstruction of and Attempt to Obstruct an Official Proceeding) Count 4: 18 U.S.C. § 241 (Conspiracy Against Rights)

The Grand Jury charges that, at all times material to this Indictment, on or about the dates and at the approximate times stated below:

1. The Defendant, DONALD J. TRUMP, was the forty-fifth President of the United States and a candidate for re-election in 2020. The Defendant lost the 2020 …


Dobbs V. Jackson Women’S Health Organization: Revisiting The Fourteenth Amendment, Due Process Of Law, And American Citizenship, Thomas H. Burrell 2023 Ohio Northern University

Dobbs V. Jackson Women’S Health Organization: Revisiting The Fourteenth Amendment, Due Process Of Law, And American Citizenship, Thomas H. Burrell

Ohio Northern University Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Heart Of The Matter: Icwa And The Future Of Native American Child Welfare, Amelia Tidwell 2023 Pepperdine University

The Heart Of The Matter: Icwa And The Future Of Native American Child Welfare, Amelia Tidwell

Journal of the National Association of Administrative Law Judiciary

The United States has a long and tragic history of removing Native American children from their homes and culture at shocking rates. Congress passed the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) in 1978 in response to that crisis and many states have bolstered the Act with state legislation and tribal-state agreements, but racial disparities are still present in the child welfare system today. Some states with low Native American populations joined non-Native American prospective adoptive parents in a constitutional challenge of ICWA, and hundreds of supporters (tribes, organizations, and states) poured out support for the Act. The Supreme Court heard the …


All Cases Matter: Mitigating Bias In The Administrative Law Judiciary, Cherron Payne 2023 Pepperdine University

All Cases Matter: Mitigating Bias In The Administrative Law Judiciary, Cherron Payne

Journal of the National Association of Administrative Law Judiciary

After an introduction and explanation of bias in Part I, Part II of this article explores the issue of bias and the underlying factors that configure bias, such as attitude, stereotype, and prejudice. Part II also examines the two principal types of bias, explicit bias and implicit bias, and defines common subsets of bias, such as gender bias. Part III presents implicit bias as an unconscious, utilitarian, and neuroscientific mechanism. Part III examines the neuroscience of decision-making and the neural structures that influence and regulate decision-making processes. Part III also discusses emotion as an underpinning to decision-making and the role …


Differences Among Family And Professional Guardians: A Statewide Survey Of Characteristics, Training, And Practices Related To Decision-Making, Kristin Hamre, Derek Nord 2023 Indiana University

Differences Among Family And Professional Guardians: A Statewide Survey Of Characteristics, Training, And Practices Related To Decision-Making, Kristin Hamre, Derek Nord

Developmental Disabilities Network Journal

This cross-sectional study sought to examine the differences between family and professional guardians across personal and role characteristics, training received, and their inclusion of people they serve in decision making. A total of 237 subjects serving as guardian to adults in the state of Indiana completed an online survey. Results showed group differences across race, education, as well as diagnosis and age of those served. Overall, training was limited across both groups, and family guardians received significantly less training across several topics. Finally, family and professional guardians were found to significantly differ in their willingness to allow people they serve …


One Nation, Under Fraud: A Remonstrance, Hon. Donna M. Loring, Hon. Eric M. Mehnert, Joseph G.E. Gousse Esq. 2023 University of Maine School of Law

One Nation, Under Fraud: A Remonstrance, Hon. Donna M. Loring, Hon. Eric M. Mehnert, Joseph G.E. Gousse Esq.

Maine Law Review

This Remonstrance presents a counter-cultural narrative and analysis of Maine’s legal, political, economic, and social interactions with the Wabanaki people. Although contemporary indicia of abuses by the State are glaringly obvious, a cohesive modern narrative that incorporates Maine’s history of predation upon and mistreatment of the tribes has remained poorly defined from an historico-legal perspective. Presenting its analysis through an historic, legal, political, economic, and social nexus, this Remonstrance traces the ontogeny of control exerted by the State of Maine over the Wabanaki tribes and endeavors to excavate the hidden historical narrative of the calculated politico-legal regime that has for …


Symposium Keynote: "Isolation And Restraint: Maine's Unique Status Outside Federal Indian Law", Michael-Corey Francis Hinton 2023 University of Maine School of Law

Symposium Keynote: "Isolation And Restraint: Maine's Unique Status Outside Federal Indian Law", Michael-Corey Francis Hinton

Maine Law Review

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