All Articles tagged Congress

• State Constitutional Commentary
  December 24, 2024 EDT
  PARTISAN GERRYMANDERING CASES IN STATE SUPREME COURTS IN THE 2020S REDISTRICTING ROUND
  Jonathan CervasBernard GrofmanScott MatsudaJustine Kawa

  This Essay examines redistricting lawsuits before state high courts, focusing on partisan gerrymandering cases, an area that has fallen to state courts to police since the 2019 Rucho SCOTUS decision.

• State Constitutional Commentary
  October 10, 2022 EDT
  The Unitary Executive Theory is Plainly Wrong and Anti-American: “Presidents are not Kings”
  Allen Shoenberger

  Meyers v. U.S. is a decision that is plainly inconsistent with the Constitutional plan under which Congress, not the President, is the supreme source of law and direction.

• General
  April 15, 2018 EDT
  THE ORIGIN OF DISPUTED ELECTIONS: CASE STUDIES OF EARLY AMERICAN CONTESTED CONGRESSIONAL ELECTIONS
  Sean J. Wright

  This article concludes that the Founders’ failure to clearly develop a universal framework for resolving disputed elections was a significant oversight.

• General
  January 01, 2018 EDT
  AMENDING ALICE: ELIMINATING THEUNDUE BURDEN OF “SIGNIFICANTLY MORE”
  Michael R. Woodward

  Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank runs afoul of Congress's intent in enacting 35 U.S.C. § 101 and should be clarified so district court judges can better interpret patent laws.