October 14, 2020
On August 6, 2020, the Trump Administration issued Executive Order 13943, banning the use of WeChat, a Chinese social media app, in the United States starting on September 20, 2020. Under the order, consumers in the United States will not be able to download or update WeChat, or engage in transactions such as sending or…
October 14, 2020
It is, perhaps, a severe understatement to claim that qualified immunity—the legal doctrine shielding police officers and other government officials from liability for constitutional violations in all but the most egregious cases—is a doctrine in need of reform. A recent Eleventh Circuit ruling in Cantu v. Dothan, however, exemplified how deeply this need for reform…
October 4, 2020
COVID-19 and postal service cuts have presented historic challenges to our electoral systems and sparked widespread fear of voter disenfranchisement. Recently, in Pennsylvania Democratic Party v. Boockvar, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court extended the November due date for mail-in ballots by three days and approved several changes to electoral processes during the pandemic. Because Pennsylvania is…
September 29, 2020
Breonna Taylor, say her name. Her name was carried to the U.S. Open, to the NBA bubble, to millions of internet posts, to thousands of placards held high in the streets. It was Professor Kimberlé Crenshaw who told us to say her name. The specificity of a murdered Black woman’s name transcends a statistic, a…
September 9, 2020
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.” — Martin Luther King, Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail Today our nation is confronting longstanding educational opportunity and achievement gaps as a global pandemic…
September 1, 2020
A Single Submission of Electoral Votes from a State The Twelfth Amendment is dangerously ambiguous. All it says on point is: “The President of the Senate shall, in the presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the certificates and the votes shall then be counted.” It does not say what to do…
Jack Goldsmith is the Henry L. Shattuck Professor at Harvard Law School, co-founder of Lawfare, and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. Before coming to Harvard, Professor Goldsmith served…
Interim Associate Dean for Experiential Legal Education and Distinguished Visiting Professor, William S. Boyd School of Law, University of Nevada at Las Vegas; Dean Emerita, Michigan State University College of…
John Greabe is the associate dean for faculty research and development and a professor of law at the University of New Hampshire School of Law, where he teaches and writes…
