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Executive Power
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Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Gender, Constitutional Design, and Women’s Leadership in Executive Positions
By Tracy Thomas
Bringing to your attention prior work that is particularly relevant now.Paula Monopoli, Gender and Constitutional Design, 115 Yale Law J. 2643 (2006).Does the allocation of power between the legislative and…
Simple Justice
Tuesday Talk*: Will The “Least Dangerous Branch” Hold?
With Republicans in control of two branches of government, the guardrails will be left to the third branch, the judiciary, if any guardrails there will be. The judiciary, as a…
Other
“Governor Kate Brown of Oregon’s Historic Use of Clemency: Using Clemency Exactly as It Was Intended”
The title of this post is the title of this new article that I just saw in the latest issue of Lewis & Clark Law Review authored by Mark Cebert…
The Right Coast
The New York Times Gaslights About Political Prosecutions
The Times headline is Why Legal Experts Are Worried About a Second Trump Presidency. The subhed added, In a survey of 50 members of the D.C. legal establishment, many warn…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Intriguing (though likely doomed) effort to alter South Carolina clemency process by condemned inmate
This new AP article reports on an interesting claim brough by a condemned inmate in South Carolina. Here are the details: A South Carolina inmate scheduled to be executed in…
PrawfsBlawg
The Youngstown Concurrence and Originalism
Main Thursday, July 25, 2024The Youngstown Concurrence and OriginalismOn the Originalism Blog, Mike Rappaport has a critique of Trump v. United States that includes the following passage: "There are many…
The Right Coast
Live updates: Supreme Court rules Trump has presumptive criminal immunity for official acts
In a monumental decision Monday, the Supreme Court ruled that former presidents enjoy a presumption of criminal immunity for official acts while in the White House, handing a win to…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Groups Sue Biden Administration Over New Asylum Rule
It was only a matter of time. Or should I say, "about time." President Biden's border actions are being challenged in court. The ACLU press release states the following:"Immigrants’ rights groups…
PrawfsBlawg
What Was in the Scandalous Brief?
Main Friday, March 15, 2024What Was in the Scandalous Brief?My last post explained that in 1918 the Supreme Court rejected a constitutional challenge to the World War I draft and…
PrawfsBlawg
The DC Circuit’s Use of the Youngstown Concurrence
Main Monday, February 12, 2024The DC Circuit's Use of the Youngstown ConcurrenceI want to talk about how the DC Circuit cited Justice Jackson's concurrence in its opinion on ex-presidential immunity…