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Presidential Impunity And The Mueller Report: How The Department Of Justice’S Failure To Subject The Special Counsel Regulations To Notice And Comment Undermined The Rule Of Law, M. Akram Faizer

UC Law Constitutional Quarterly

Department of Justice (“DOJ”) Special Counsel, Robert S. Mueller, III’s two-volume, 448-page Report on the Investigation into Russian Interference in the 2016 Presidential Election (“the Report”), did an outstanding job in evidencing that President Trump’s actions in office satisfied the federal obstruction of justice standards. However, due to Mueller’s limited brief and his concern for maintaining the proper separation of powers, the Report, submitted confidentially to former Attorney General Barr as required by Department of Justice Regulations, abjured a determination as to Presidential criminality. This regulatory confidentiality requirement in conjunction with the requirement that Barr disclose an unverifiable Report summary …

Disability Rights And The Louisiana Constitution, Derek Warden

UC Law Constitutional Quarterly

The Louisiana Constitution contains three Equal Protection Clauses. Article I, section 3 prohibits discriminatory laws; but, as an original matter, should prohibit both discriminatory laws and government conduct. Article I, section 12 prohibits discrimination by individuals (government or private) in regard to access to public places. Finally, article I, section 2, the Due Process Clause, also contains an Equal Protection component. Each clause prohibits discrimination on the basis of “physical condition,” which contains a general “disability” component. Based upon statements from the Louisiana Constitutional Convention and other modalities of constitutional argument, this article concludes that these clauses—individually and in conjunction— …

Presidential Removal: Impeachment As A Tool To Promote Democracy In Haïti, Brynna Bolt

UC Law Constitutional Quarterly

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The Other Ordinary Persons, Fred O. Smith, Jr.

Washington and Lee Law Review

If originalism aims to center the original public meaning of text, who constitutes “the public”? Are we doing enough to capture historically excluded voices: impoverished white planters; dispossessed Natives; silenced women; and the enslaved? If not, what more is required? And for those who are not originalists, how do we ensure that, as American law consults the wisdom of the ages, we do not sever entire sources of wisdom?

This brief symposium Article engages these themes, offering two modest, interrelated claims. The first is that important informational, ethical, and democratic benefits accrue when American legal doctrine includes the voices and …

Dissent: Not Popular Enough, Robert L. Tsai

Faculty Scholarship

The draft constitution does a nice job of reducing existing institutional obstacles to effective government. Yet there is one persistent manner in which the draft repeats the Framers’ error and, indeed, doubles down on it: by replicating the elitist part of the republican tradition at the expense of the plebeian one. In that sense, the proposal doesn’t do nearly enough to rebuild the frayed bonds between citizen and government. More effective policymaking is the technocrat’s solution, but multiple methods of exercising power is the populist’s response to a metastasizing sense of dislocation.

Antiracism In Action, Daniel Harawa, Brandon Hasbrouck

Washington and Lee Law Review

Racism pervades the criminal legal system, influencing everything from who police stop and search, to who prosecutors charge, to what punishments courts apply. The Supreme Court’s fixation on colorblind application of the Constitution gives judges license to disregard the role race plays in the criminal legal system, and all too often, they do. Yet Chief Judge Roger L. Gregory challenges the facially race-neutral reasoning of criminal justice actors, often applying ostensibly colorblind scrutiny to achieve a color-conscious jurisprudence. Nor is he afraid of engaging directly in a frank discussion of the racial realities of America, rebuking those within the system …

Judges As Superheroes: The Danger Of Confusing Constitutional Decisions With Cosmic Battles, H. Jefferson Powell

South Carolina Law Review

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Legal History Repeats Itself On Climate Change: The Commerce Clause And Renewable Energy, Steven Ferrey

Suffolk University Law School Faculty Works

Discrimination and power: Federal courts found that some state renewable power laws violate the U.S. Constitution Commerce Clause by discriminating against out-of-state renewable energy. At stake is climate change and the near-term future of the Planet. After warned almost a decade ago about their Constitutional violation, which states conformed their laws as the Earth has warmed? This article analyzes which of 22 U.S. states flagged as to having potentially unconstitutional discriminatory renewable energy laws a decade ago have conformed their discriminatory renewable energy laws and which have allowed legal history to repeat itself?
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Separation, Supremacy, And The Unconstitutional Rational Basis Test, Joseph S. Diedrich

Villanova Law Review (1956 - )

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Common Law Baselines And Current Free Speech Doctrine, Erica Goldberg

Villanova Law Review (1956 - )

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Seila Law As Separation-Of-Powers Posturing, Edward Cantu

Faculty Works

The Court rarely decides separation-of-powers cases, and when it does, academics usually scramble to fit such decisions into a broader doctrinal narrative. Such was the case when in June of 2020 the Supreme Court decided Seila Law LLC v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. In short, the Court ruled that it is unconstitutional for Congress to restrict the President’s removal power of an agency head if that agency is headed by a single person. For some reason, the Court concluded that such removal restrictions are permissible when applied to multi-headed agencies but not single-headed agencies. This Article argues that an attempt …

The Inadequacy Of The Impossible: Obtaining Post-Conviction Dna Testing In Alabama, Trena Riley

Cardozo Law Review

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اختصاص المحكمة الدستورية العليا بالتفسير وفقاً للتشريع الفلسطيني والمصري دراسة مقارنة في ضوء اجتهادات القضاء الدستوري, محمد عبدالله أبو مطر استاذ مساعد

Journal of Al-Azhar University – Gaza (Humanities)

الملخص:

يتناول هذا البحث كيفية معالجة المشرع الفلسطيني لاختصاص المحكمة الدستورية العليا بالتفسير مقارنة بالمشرع المصري، وحدود اجتهاد المحكمة بشأن مباشرتها لهذا الاختصاص وفق النصوص والأحكام المنظمة له في التشريع الفلسطيني والمصري، سواء فيما يتعلق بتحديد التشريعات التي تختص بتفسيرها المحكمة الدستورية العليا، أو شروط تقديم طلب التفسير وإجراءات الفصل في هذا الطلب وطبيعة القرار الصادر فيه وآثاره وحجيته، وهي موضوعات تم مقاربتها في هذا البحث بالدراسة والتحليل المقارن للإجابة عن إشكالية البحث المتمثلة في: مدى كفاية التنظيم القانوني لاختصاص المحكمة الدستورية العليا بالتفسير في التشريع الفلسطيني والمصري، وحدود اجتهاد هذه المحكمة في ممارستها لذلك الاختصاص؟، خاصةً وأن المشرع …

الحكم الصادر في الدعوى الدستورية (حجيته و آثاره) دراسة تحليلية مقارنة بين التشريع الفلسطيني والمصري, رائد صالح قنديل استاذ مساعد

Journal of Al-Azhar University – Gaza (Humanities)

الملخص:

تعد دراسة حجية الحكم الصادر في الدعوى الدستورية وآثاره من الموضوعات الهامة في حقل الدراسات الدستورية، لا سيما وأن الأحكام الصادرة عن المحكمة الدستورية في التشريع الفلسطيني والمقارن ملزمة لكافة سلطات الدولة ومؤسساتها، إلّا أنّ آثار هذه الأحكام شكّلت محل تباين في المعالجة التشريعية الفلسطينية والمقارنة، وهو ما تمّ تناوله في هذا البحث بالاستناد إلى قانون المحكمة الدستورية العليا الفلسطيني رقم (3) لسنة 2006 وتعديلاته والقوانين المقارنة، وكذلك أحكام القانون الدستوري الفلسطيني والمقارن من خلال التطرق إلى طبيعة وحجية الحكم الصادر في الدعوى الدستورية، والأثر القانوني المترتب على هذا الحكم فضلاً عن تناول النطاق الزمني لتنفيذ الأحكام الصادرة في …

With Jews Under Attack, Here Is A Chance To Act, Bruce Ledewitz

Ledewitz Papers

Published scholarship collected from academic journals, law reviews, newspaper publications & online periodicals.

Weighing Pain: How The Harm Of Immigration Detention Must Be Factored In Custody Decisions, Linus Chan

William & Mary Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice

The United States is currently in the midst of a “third wave of potential pretrial detention reform.” And while certain reforms are gaining traction in an effort to reduce pretrial criminal detention, efforts to do the same for immigration detention have lagged. Reformers and abolitionists make the case that immigration detention needs to be either restricted or eliminated entirely. Nonetheless, the number of people held in detention for immigration purposes rises year after year. Not only do the numbers of people in immigration detention grow, but the systems in place have grown less concerned with the harsh consequences of detention …

Shelter From The Storm: Human Rights Protections For Single-Mother Families In The Time Of Covid-19, Theresa Glennon, Alexis Fennell, Kaylin Hawkins, Madison Mcnulty

William & Mary Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice

COVID-19’s arrival, and the changes it has unleashed, reveal how longstanding legal and policy decisions produced structural inequalities that have left so many families, and especially single-parent families with children, all too insecure. The fragility of single-mother families is amplified by the multifaceted discrimination they face. While all single parents, including single fathers and other single relatives who are raising children, share many of these burdens, this Article focuses on the challenges confronting single mothers.

Federal policy choices stand in sharp contrast to the political rhetoric of government support for families. Social and economic policy in the twentieth century developed …

Elimination Of Non-Tariff Barriers Of Trade In Goods In The Asean Region: Will It Ever Work?, Garuda Wiko, Fatma Muthia Kinanti

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

Within the framework of the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC), there is a mandate to promote trade liberalization with the aim of increasing intra-ASEAN trade. The realization of the AEC includes the existence of the free flow of goods, services and investments within the ASEAN region. In terms of trade in goods, the regulations within the AEC framework are intended to promote the establishment of single markets and production bases in the ASEAN region that does not only require the elimination of tariff barriers, but also non-tariff barriers.This article concludethat the NTB Regulations in the AEC 2015 are not very well …

Analisis Yuridis Terhadap Status Hak Kepemilikan Permukiman Penduduk Di Atas Air, Irman Irman, Oksep Adhayanto, Rany Kartika Sari, Suryadi Suryadi

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

This research was conducted to examine whether Settlement on the water can be given ownership status as the right to land in theUUPA. The purpose of this study is to find out and analyze settlements on water, can the status of land rights be given as stipulated in the legislation, and with the hope that people who have houses and settlements on the water can obtain proof of ownership of land and buildings on the water. The research method usedis normative research, with a statutory approach and a historical approach. The results showed that although the Regulation of the Minister …

Perlindungan Hak Pekerja Perempuan Melalui Sertifikasi Ham Perikanan Yang Berpersfektif Gender, Hesti Widyaningrum, Adi Nur Rohman

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

Indicators of Human Rights Compliance in Regulations on System and Certification of Human Rights in The Fisheries Sector make Business Actors potentiallyignore The findings of fisheries Human Rights violations that are not included in these indicators, the scopeof indicators of human rights compliance should not be limited also from The findings of Human Rights violations of Fisheries Workers and The method of recovery based on the initiative of The Business Actor as referred to in UNGPs (UN Guiding Principles onBusiness and Human Rights). The narrowness scope, too, has an impact on regulating The Rights Of Women Workers which is not …