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The New York Times, March 10, 2025
The real legacy of the case, scholars say, is not its protection of former presidents from prosecution but its expansive understanding of presidential power.
Aftershocks of Supreme Court’s Immunity Ruling Echo in New Trump Cases
The New York Times, March 10, 2025
The real legacy of the case, scholars say, is not its protection of former presidents from prosecution but its expansive understanding of presidential power.
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The New York Times, March 9, 2025
The case invites further fragmentation of public education.
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SCOTUSblog, March 4, 2025
Monday’s argument in BLOM Bank SAL v. Honickman took the justices back to their law school days, with a question straight out of a traditional first-semester course in Civil Procedure. The specific topic here is the standard for reopening a judgment that a court already... The post Justices poised to reject “mishmash” standard for reopening a case appeared first on SCOTUSblog.
The Court Should Approach the Nondelegation Questions Posed by the FCC Case on its Docket in Recognition of the Fact that Delegations to the President (or Entities He Controls) Are Distinctively Problematic
Justia's Verdict, January 31, 2025
UC Davis Law professor Vikram David Amar discusses the Supreme Court case FCC v. Consumers’ Research et al., which challenges the constitutionality of the FCC’s delegation of authority under the nondelegation doctrine. Professor Amar argues that while the nondelegation doctrine has been historically dormant, the case highlights important constitutional considerations about the delegation of legislative authority, specifically the ability to reclaim delegated power, and he urges the Court to address these broader issues if it examines the nondelegation questions in this case.
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