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John P. Elwood is a partner at Vinson & Elkins in Washington, D.C., specializing in appellate litigation and administrative law, and also teaches the University of Virginia School of Law's Supreme Court litigation clinic. He served as senior deputy in the Justice Departmentâ€™s Office of Legal Counsel from 2005 until 2009 and served as an assistant to the Solicitor General from 2002 until 2005.

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FCC v. Fox
Constitutionality of indecency ban in broadcast media

The Texas redistricting cases
Texas's new, legislatively enacted district maps, court-ordered interim maps, and the Voting Rights Act

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The Court's traditions and holdings regarding church and state.

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Governmental enforcement of federal environmental laws against private property owners
Recent Community Comments
Excellent points, all, but I can't believe this current court will do anything but, per usual 5-4 decision, uphold the redistricting...
Elaine Snow on 4/5 at 1:32 am
What you need to realize that is that the EPA should operate on macro level and admittedly they serve an important role. However when...
richard roper on 4/4 at 9:30 pm
My initial feeling is that since the government does licenses out the broadcast frequency it can say what will be said on them. The...
Rusty Shackleferd on 3/5 at 1:12 pm
The Justices made their opinions obvious in the case "FCC v. Fox Television Stations et. al." I understand that we know what the Judges...
Ramtin Rahmani on 3/5 at 2:10 am
Some of the problems I have with these laws are ethically, I think that was a good law and the sale of those types of video games should...
Jade Bath on 3/5 at 1:06 am

Race bias in voting: The next round	6:21pm on 5/22
Opinion analysis: Genetic link not enough for Social Security survivors benefits	4:27pm on 5/22
Petition of the day	12:23pm on 5/22
Tuesday round-up	10:09am on 5/22
State rebuffed on DNA testing	6:37pm on 5/21

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