Archives: Commentary and Analysis

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02.02.10 Citizens United, Shareholder Rights, and Free Speech: Restoring the Primacy of Politics to the First Amendment, Part II
02.02.10 Citizens United, Shareholder Rights, and Free Speech: Restoring the Primacy of Politics to the First Amendment, Part I
01.28.10 Commentary: Alito vs. Obama — who’s right?
01.27.10 The new world of campaign finance law
01.26.10 First sequel to Citizens United
01.24.10 What Should Congress Do About Citizens United?
01.22.10 Commentary: A GTMO anniversary, and a new debate
01.21.10 Analysis: The personhood of corporations
01.21.10 Analysis: A new law to offset Citizens United?
01.21.10 Analysis: A few open, or not so open, questions
01.21.10 Debate continues over the Court’s “GVR” authority
01.19.10 Commentary: Court’s future in flux
01.19.10 Campaign finance ruling likely imminent
01.14.10 A good day for North Carolina?
01.13.10 A playoff, of sorts, in store for NFL?
01.12.10 Briscoe v. Virginia, Argument Recap
01.12.10 Pro sports and antitrust: Argument Preview
01.07.10 Analysis: Parsing Boumediene
01.06.10 Analysis: Boumediene’s reach
12.29.09 Book review: Justice Kennedy’s law
12.22.09 Commentary: Did Boumediene leave too much undone?
12.17.09 UPDATE: Kiyemba and the Illinois prison
12.08.09 Reaching, or waiting, for a constitutional issue
12.07.09 Sarbanes-Oxley and its devilish details
12.02.09 Analysis: An elusive constitutional issue
12.01.09 The Scope of the Court’s GVR Authority
11.09.09 Analysis: The “Lorenzo Jones” case emerges
11.09.09 Analysis: The Chief leads on juvenile sentences?
11.06.09 Inquiring into the juvenile mind
11.06.09 A patent dispute for the Information Age
11.02.09 Analysis: Shady Grove edges on slippery slopes
10.28.09 Analysis: New issue in Kiyemba
10.24.09 Analysis: EMILY’s List case: To the Court, or not?
10.20.09 Analysis: Detention and the 3 branches
10.13.09 Analysis: “Honest services” law in jeopardy?
10.07.09 Analysis: Copyright settlement may be in doubt
10.07.09 Analysis: A case of disappearing issues
10.06.09 Salazar v. Buono: The cross in the desert (Argument Preview)
10.06.09 Reed Elsevier v. Muchnick: Free-lancers and an $18 million deal (Argument Preview)
10.06.09 Analysis: Animal cruelty law in trouble
09.15.09 Analysis: New detention filter at Bagram
09.04.09 Argument preview: Corporations in politics
07.04.09 Analysis: New obstacles to wartime challenges
06.29.09 Thoughts on this Term and the Next
06.29.09 Analysis: Ricci, without the rhetoric
06.29.09 What Ricci says about the Supreme Court’s views of Judge Sotomayor
06.25.09 Analysis: Law need not bow to chemistry
06.25.09 Analysis: Some expansion of student privacy
06.22.09 Analysis: Supreme Court Invalidates Section 5’s Coverage Scheme [Updated 2:15]
06.22.09 Analysis: Is Section 5’s future shaky?
06.21.09 Analysis: Congress moves to control detainees
06.18.09 Analysis: Handing off the DNA issue
06.10.09 Analysis: Opinion in U.S. ex rel. Eisenstein v. City of New York
06.09.09 Commentary: What’s next on “bailout” law?
06.09.09 Digging up a discredited precedent
05.29.09 Judge Sotomayor and Race
05.20.09 Nominee Analysis: Judge Diane Wood
05.19.09 Judge Sotomayor’s Civil Opinions – Part III
05.18.09 Analysis: A pass for high officials?
05.15.09 Judge Sotomayor’s Appellate Opinions in Civil Cases