Court Cases
Charles Pinckney and Moore v. Harper
Hansi Lo Wang has this interesting article for NPR: A controversial election theory at the Supreme Court is tied to a disputed document. From the introduction: In their bid to promote a once-fringe legal theory that could upend election laws across the country,...
The Government and Race
This week, the Supreme Court of the United States is confronting yet again an issue that has bedeviled it for the past 30 years: the use of racial quotas by government-owned universities and private universities that accept government funding. The last time the court...
Federal Courts Aren’t Always Better: Cell-Phone Search Warrant Edition
Conventional wisdom tells us federal courts will protect our rights better than state courts. This is why virtually everything is turned into a federal case. But two recent cases relating to cell phone search warrants reveal this isn’t always the case. In Riley...
Another Shot at the Insular Cases
Concurring in United States v. Vaello Madero last Spring, Justice Gorsuch on originalist grounds called for overruling the Insular Cases, the series of early twentieth-century decisions that concluded the Constitution doesn’t fully apply in overseas U.S....