…noted in the Brennan Center report, several states have also started to utilize practices that violate the Sixth Amendment, which guarantees defendants a right to counsel. Florida, North Carolina and…

…federal courts to reverse Judge Vauhan Walker’s already-iconic opinion, which held that California’s Proposition 8 prohibition of gay marriage violates the Fourteenth Amendment’s due process and equal protection clauses precisely,…

…employed. And key First Amendment cases before the Supreme Court are among them, and the Solicitor General is someone who should recognize that. Most past solicitor generals did, after all….

…violence in the streets, but history shows that it is not only the capitalists that have 2nd amendment remedies. Joe Hill may have more life in him than they like….

…as an amendment of the key patentability categories language rather than as the stopgap measure it was clearly intended to be because of the Federal Court’s condoning of business method…

…their Fifth Amendment “property takings” challenge in the lower federal courts after the state-court case was completed, the Court needed to effectively kill the Rooker-Feldman doctrine in all its incarnations…

…and sometime guest on constitutional issues at Angry Bear on this topic: I think the Fab Five on the Court are playing with major fire here. The First Amendment argument…

…deal with problems. Senators Lugar and Cardin have suggested full disclosure by companies about amounts they pay to governments for access to natural resources (discussed as an amendment to financial…

…to repeal that section of the 14th Amendment that provides that everyone born on American soil is as such a Citizen 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United…

Robert Waldmann Republican Susan Collins proposed an amendment to tighten bank capital reqirements. It passed unanimously, but might be removed in conference because the Obama Treasury is opposed. The world…