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Crossroads - Commercial Speech Final
Protecting Commercial Speech and Personal Privacy in the Internet Age: Is the Court Lochnerizing the First Amendment? The Constitution at a Crossroads Introduction [I]n a democracy, the economic is subordinate to the political, a lesson that our ancestors learned long ago, and that our descendants will undoubtedly have to relearn many years hence. Justice William Rehnquist1 In an earlier chapter of Crossroads, we considered the sharp divide on the Supreme Court concerning the First Amendment ri
Category:(not categorized)Reads:39Uploaded:05 / 23 / 2012ShareAdd to collectionBrown v. Brown: Will the Supreme Court Interpret the Equal Protection Clause to Invalidate Measures Designed to Promote Equal Opportunity and Redress Our Nation’s Long History of Racial Discrimination?
Brown v. Brown: Will the Supreme Court Interpret the Equal Protection Clause to Invalidate Measures Designed to Promote Equal Opportunity and Redress Our Nation’s Long History of Racial Discrimination? The Constitution at a Crossroads Introduction “Before Brown, schoolchildren were told where they could and could not go to school based on the color of their skin. The school districts . . . have not carried the heavy burden of demonstrating that we should allow this once again . . . .” Chief Jus
Category:Business/LawReads:14Uploaded:05 / 17 / 2012ShareAdd to collectionThe First Amendment Political Speech and the Future of Campaign Finance Laws
The First Amendment, Political Speech, and the Future of Campaign Finance Laws The Constitution at a Crossroads Introduction In 2010, the Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United v. FEC upended the world of campaign finance law as we know it by recognizing for the first time that the political speech of corporations is entitled to the same constitutional protections as political speech by individuals. Reacting to the decision, President Barack Obama chastised the Court in his 2010 State of t
Category:Business/LawReads:19Uploaded:05 / 10 / 2012ShareAdd to collectionAZ v. US
No. 11-182 Supreme Court of the United States STATE OF ARIZONA, and JANICE K. BREWER, GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF ARIZONA, IN HER OFFICIAL CAPACITY, Petitioners, v. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Respondent. On Writ Of Certiorari To The United States Court Of Appeals For The Ninth Circuit BRIEF AMICUS CURIAE OF CONSTITUTIONAL ACCOUNTABILITY CENTER IN SUPPORT OF RESPONDENT DOUGLAS T. KENDALL ELIZABETH B. WYDRA* *Counsel of Record DAVID H. GANS CONSTITUTIONAL ACCOUNTABILITY CENTER 1200 18th St., NW, Ste
Category:Court FilingsReads:8Uploaded:04 / 16 / 2012ShareAdd to collectionHealth Care - CAC ACA Clips - March 15-29 2012 Updated
The Nation and CAC Debate Health Care Act
Category:Court FilingsReads:120Uploaded:04 / 16 / 2012ShareAdd to collectionHealth Care - CAC ACA Clips - March 15-29 2012 (3)
America and CAC Debate Health Care
Category:Magazines/NewspapersReads:21Uploaded:04 / 10 / 2012ShareAdd to collectionRegulating Commerce: Will the Supreme Court Strike Down the Affordable Care Act’s Minimum Coverage Provision and other Economic Regulation?
Regulating Commerce: Will the Supreme Court Strike Down the Affordable Care Act’s Minimum Coverage Provision and other Economic Regulation? The Constitution at a Crossroads Introduction Powerful and ingenious minds, taking, as postulates, that the powers expressly granted to the government of the Union, are to be contracted by construction, into the narrowest possible compass, and that the original powers of the States are retained, if any possible construction will r
Category:LawReads:73Uploaded:03 / 14 / 2012ShareAdd to collectionThe Constitution at a Crossroads: Chapters 1-3
The Constitution at a Crossroads: The Ideological Battle over the Meaning of the Constitution is an attempt to map and describe the ideological battlegrounds on the Roberts Court. Constitutional Accountability Center (CAC) is releasing Crossroads chapter-by-chapter over the next several months, beginning with a set of three chapters on the powers of the federal government.
Category:LawReads:42Uploaded:03 / 14 / 2012ShareAdd to collectionCrossroads -Intro Spending Commerce Enforcement
The Constitution at a Crossroads: The Ideological Battle Over the Meaning of the Constitution Introduction Lyle Denniston recently described “the tendency of the ‘Roberts Court’ to take on the broadest kind of controversy in cases brought to it.”1 From Citizens United v. FEC, in which the Court expanded the case on its own motion, scheduled a second argument, and then issued a sweeping ruling discarding prior case law, to t
Category:(not categorized)Reads:84Uploaded:03 / 14 / 2012ShareAdd to collectionCrossroads - Enforcement Power
Enforcing Civil Rights: Will the Supreme Court Strike Down the Voting Rights Act and Other Landmark Civil Rights Legislation? The Constitution at a Crossroads Introduction Do decisions that return the country to a pre-Civil War understanding of the nation establish a more perfect Union? Are decisions just that shield not only the states but lesser appendages of the state from paying for the wrongs they commit? Do decisions that leave the elderly and the disabled with inadequate remedies for une
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