Immigration Lies And The Supreme Court

1/23/19  //  Commentary

A recently leaked document highlights the perils of government lawyering on behalf of the Trump administration.

Leah Litman

Michigan Law School

The (Ir)relevance of parental consent requirements to Garza

9/5/18  //  Quick Reactions

Judge Kavanaugh suggested he was faithfully applying parental consent cases in Garza v. Hargan. He's wrong.

Leah Litman

Michigan Law School

A Conservative’s Conservative Before He Was Nominated and An Open-Minded Jurist After

7/31/18  //  Commentary

Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s supporters claimed that his nomination would mean a sharp right turn for the Court; but since his nominated, they have promised he will review cases as they come.

Helen Marie Berg

Michigan Law

Abigail DeHart

Michigan Law School

Leah Litman

Michigan Law School

An Emolumental Take On the President Versus The Presidency

7/26/18  //  Quick Reactions

The recent opinion allowing the plaintiffs' emoluments claims to go forward comports with recent suggestions about separating this President from the office of the Presidency.

Leah Litman

Michigan Law School

Getting To No On Roe

7/5/18  //  In-Depth Analysis

The question is not whether the reconstituted Supreme Court will overturn Roe v. Wade. The only question is how the Supreme Court will do so.

Leah Litman

Michigan Law School

Religious Animus or Reality?

7/2/18  //  Commentary

In a recent case, the Court suggested that calling out an attempt to use religion to justify harming others was evidence of animus. That’s wrong.

Leah Litman

Michigan Law School

Abigail DeHart

Michigan Law School

On The Entry Ban, The Supreme Court Says It’s Up To Us

6/26/18  //  Quick Reactions

In Trump v. Hawaii, the Court reminded us that the courts will not be there to save us. It is up to us, instead.

Leah Litman

Michigan Law School

Entry Ban Animus Revisited

6/25/18  //  In-Depth Analysis

Many of the Supreme Court’s recent decisions tell us what we need to know: Under any meaningful standard for assessing government motives, the entry ban must fail.

Leah Litman

Michigan Law School

Abigail DeHart

Michigan Law School

Beckles v. US As Anti-Canon

6/18/18  //  Quick Reactions

Today's federal sentencing opinions create even more tension between the Court's sentencing jurisprudence and Beckles v. United States.

Leah Litman

Michigan Law School

Jeff Sessions's Latest Asylum Atrocity

6/18/18  //  Commentary

Coretta Scott King was right. Jeff Sessions is a horrible man to be Attorney General.

Leah Litman

Michigan Law School

Abigail DeHart

Michigan Law School

The Results Are In: Law Firms & Mandatory Arbitrations

6/11/18  //  Quick Reactions

The results of the survey to law firms recruiting on campus shows which firms use mandatory arbitration, and which firms deigned to respond at all.

Leah Litman

Michigan Law School

What Masterpiece Cakeshop Tells Us About the Travel Ban

6/8/18  //  Commentary

In a recent article, I expand on my argument that the Court's reasoning in Masterpiece Cakeshop suggests the Travel Ban violates the First Amendment.

Leah Litman

Michigan Law School

The Establishing Shots of a Heist: The Trump DOJ Meets the Affordable Care Act

6/7/18  //  Commentary

DOJ's argument that the Affordable Care Act reforms are not severable from the now unconstitutional mandate is not worth the Courier font it is typed in.

Ian Samuel

Harvard Law School

Leah Litman

Michigan Law School

Forced Separation Of Families & Forced To-Term Pregnancies

6/7/18  //  Commentary

The administration’s policy of forcibly separating children from their parents highlights some of the shortcomings with the legal justifications for the administration’s position in Azar v. Garza, the case in which the administration is refusing to allow undocumented women in its custody to obtain abortions.

Leah Litman

Michigan Law School

Jennings v. Rodriguez, Immigration Sins Of the Past, And The Forced Separation Of Families

6/6/18  //  Commentary

Jennings v. Rodriguez underscores how prior administrations, with the agreement of the federal courts, argued for expansive authority over immigration and immigration detentions that were ripe for abuse.

Leah Litman

Michigan Law School