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Elie Mystal, Unhealthy Regulation: Ten Common Legal guidelines That Are Ruining America (The New Press, 2025)

Legal guidelines replicate society’s priorities and preoccupations. In Unhealthy Regulation: Ten Common Legal guidelines That Are Ruining America, Elie Mystal, authorized analyst/justice correspondent at The Nation, takes readers on an expletive-laden romp by way of the legislative historical past of our nation’s so-called “unhealthy legal guidelines,” exhibiting how they summoned

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How People really feel about potential courtroom reforms

When historian Donald Roper instructed folks he was writing a biography of Smith Thompson, the constant reply, even from constitutional students, was “who’s Smith Thompson?” Roper had a partial reply, albeit one borrowed from Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.: whereas Chief Justice John Marshall “was nice as a result of

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How Interesting Weekly Roundup

Ed. Notice: A weekly roundup of only a few objects from Howard Bashman’s How Appealing blog, the Internet’s first weblog dedicated to appellate litigation. Take a look at these tales and extra at How Interesting. “Montana Ban Would Strike at Political Spending, and the Supreme Court docket; A measure aimed

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The basic confusions of federal Indian regulation

I wished to start this collection for SCOTUSblog by discussing some fundamentals (and elementary confusions) of federal Indian regulation. Regardless of the common understanding that federal Indian law is difficult and confounding, I educate my college students that its foundational ideas are literally pretty easy. Federal regulation is supreme in

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