March 1, 2021
A broad consensus of legal analysts—joined, it seems, by most senators of both political parties—recognizes that former President Donald Trump did not have a valid First Amendment defense at his second impeachment trial. But the discussion that the trial occasioned about First Amendment defenses in impeachment trials suffered from a lack of precision about what…
February 22, 2021
Editor’s Note: This piece is a part of our series celebrating the thirty-year anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Throughout history, including late into the twentieth century, exclusion of people with disabilities was the norm. Prejudice, antiquated attitudes, and the failure to remove societal and institutional barriers typified society’s response to disability. Laws…
February 19, 2021
Editor’s Note: This piece is a part of our series celebrating the thirty-year anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). 2020 was a historic year for voting. Record-breaking voter turnout was challenged by a deadly pandemic that forced people to remain in their homes. Voters turned to absentee voting in droves and states accommodated…
February 19, 2021
Editor’s Note: This piece is a part of our series celebrating the thirty-year anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) has been transformational in many ways, especially in the way that people with disabilities can access public spaces and thereby participate in their communities. Nevertheless, a look at…
February 14, 2021
At the start of 2021, the COVID-19 vaccine rollout in Houston, Texas was met with such high demand that the City’s vaccination call center phone lines crashed. And by the end of January, vaccine supplies remained so low that the Houston Health Department’s first dose appointments were nearly impossible to obtain. Against this backdrop, in…
February 2, 2021
In 2019, House Democrats unveiled a sweeping electoral reform package, designated “H.R. 1” as a symbolic gesture of the bill’s importance. With Republican control of the White House and Senate, the bill stood no chance of being enacted into law at the time, but it contained genuinely impactful proposals. Fast-forward to 2021—with Democratic control(-ish) of…
Josh Blackman is an Associate Professor of Law at the South Texas College of Law in Houston who specializes in constitutional law, the United States Supreme Court, and the intersection…
Kenneth Stahl is Professor of Law and the director of the Environmental, Land Use, and Real Estate Law program at Chapman University Fowler School of Law, where he teaches Land…
