Election Reform
Panelists discussed election reform and how they would go about changing the system. A primary topic of consideration was the constitutionality of state voter ID laws which require a person …
415 viewsPanelists discussed election reform and how they would go about changing the system. A primary topic of consideration was the constitutionality of state voter ID laws which require a person …
415 viewsJournalists spoke about teh 2011-2012 Supreme Court term and several landmark cases, including the decision that largely upheld health care reform in the Affordable Care Act. They also talke…
319 viewsDeputy Solicitor General Neal Katyal and other legal scholars reviewed the 2010-2011 Supreme Court term. Topics included Wal-Mart v. Dukes, the impact of Justice Elena Kagan, and upcoming ca…
679 viewsWalter Olson reports that many political leaders who influence what the author considers poor national policy are graduates of the nation’s premiere law schools. Mr. Olson relays that lawyer…
448 viewsLegal experts talked about the 2009-2010 Supreme Court term. They focused on Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission and the future of campaign finance law, as well as the future of g…
633 viewsPanelists talked about the 2008 - 2009 Supreme Court term and varius cases decided during the course of the term. Among the issues they addressed were free speech and federal broad cast reg…
467 viewsPanelists talked about the major cases and issues before the U.S. Supreme Court in the 2007-2008 term. Topics included Guantanamo Bay detainees, the District of Columbia’s gun ban, and the d…
661 viewsPresident Bush’s two appointments to the Supreme Court were expected to move the Court further to the right. But surprise decisions in the cases of Guantanamo Bay detainees and a convicted c…
106 viewsMr. Carafano moderated a panel discussion on the implications of the recent announcement that electronic surveillance by the National Security Agency would be approved by the Foreign Intelli…
132 viewsPanelists reviewed the 2005-2006 U.S. Supreme Court term. They talked about the new justices on the court, Chief Justice Roberts and Associate Justice Alito, as well as the significant cases…
120 viewsIn the first part of the Republican Lawyers Association forum on legal issues facing the Bush administration, the Republican Party, and its counsel focused on the judicial confirmation proce…
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