For several years, I have been thinking about the doctrine of severability -- what happens when courts conclude that a part of a law is unconstitutional? I have come to believe that this is ...
In recent years, allegiance to the constitutional theory known as originalism has become all but mandatory for American legal conservatives. Every justice and almost every judge nominated by recent ...
UC Berkeley School of Law Dean Erwin Chemerinsky co-launched “We Hold These Truths,” a project focused on public education of basic constitutional principles. Established July 4, the project was ...
Yesterday the Obama administration announced it will no longer defend the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA).The administration said the 15 year old federal law banning the ...
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This article originally appeared on AlterNet. For generations, the U.S. Supreme Court expanded or upheld civil liberties, from freedom of the press in New York Times v. Sullivan (1964) to access to ...
FILE PHOTO: A police officer stands outside Poland's Constitutional Tribunal building, in Warsaw, Poland September 22, 2021. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel/File photo WARSAW, Dec 18 (Reuters) - Poland's ...