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Trump Signs Order Expanding Power Over Independent Agencies Like FCC and SEC
The New York Times, February 19, 2025
The president has already challenged statutory protections against summarily firing officials overseeing such agencies without cause.
Education Dept. Gives Schools Two Weeks to Eliminate Race-Based Programs
The New York Times, February 18, 2025
The department’s Office for Civil Rights warned that it would penalize schools that consider race in scholarships, hiring and an array of other activities.
Supreme Court to consider death row plea for DNA testing
SCOTUSblog, February 13, 2025
The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Feb. 24 in the case of a man on Texas death row who has long tried to obtain postconviction DNA testing on evidence that he says would exonerate him. Ruben Gutierrez was sentenced to death for the... The post Supreme Court to consider death row plea for DNA testing appeared first on SCOTUSblog.
Supreme Court Signals That Landmark Libel Ruling Is Secure
The New York Times, February 10, 2025
Attacked by two justices, lower-court judges and litigants, the 1964 ruling in New York Times v. Sullivan keeps getting cited approvingly in the Supreme Court’s decisions.
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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