The Discipline of Rudy Giuliani and The Real Fraud of the 2020 Election
In Matter of Giuliani, the New York Appellate Division held that Rudy Giuliani’s knowingly false statements of fact during the period after the 2020 presidential election violated the Rules of...
View ArticleExplaining the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Stalemate in Congress
Historically, congressional policy goals on immigration have vacillated from open to restrictive as various micro and macro level factors have changed both inside and outside the Beltway. While...
View ArticleCoin Center v. Yellen Prompts Reconsideration of the Vast Deference Afforded...
This Comment examines the legal implications of the sanctions issued by the Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Asset Control against Tornado Cash, an application that enables user privacy...
View ArticleDude, Where’s My Data? A Legislative Band-Aid for Data Brokers’ Bullet Hole...
The development and proliferation of the Internet, GPS, cell phones, social media, and the associated data that support these now ubiquitous technologies have created a new ecosystem of information...
View ArticlePlacing Legal Context In Context
In Biden v. Nebraska, Justice Barrett authored a concurrence in which she characterized the major questions doctrine as a linguistic canon that accounts for the “legal context” surrounding delegations...
View ArticleJudicial Power and Potential Unconstitutionality: A Scholastic Perspective
There is a fundamental legal distinction between making the law and applying it. All manner of juridical confusion follows from neglect of this distinction, as the Supreme Court’s statutory...
View ArticleWhat Congress Needs to Break the Immigration Reform Stalemate
This article provides a policy proposal for an immigration reform package that could be successful in the modern-day Congress. It is the second article of a series that began with an analysis of why...
View ArticleThe Court’s Abject Failure at Statutory Construction: Sackett v....
The essay critiques the Supreme Court’s novel approach toward statutory construction in Sackett (2023). The Sackett Court considered whether the Ninth Circuit applied the appropriate test to determine...
View ArticleA Major Question for Administrative Law: How are Courts Applying the Major...
On June 30, 2022, judicial deference toward actions of administrative agencies took a significant hit. In West Virginia v. EPA, the Court formally recognized—for the first time—the major questions...
View ArticlePresidents, Congress, and Classified Information: The Constitutional...
On August 8 2022, the Federal Bureau of Investigation executed a search warrant at former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Resort. The search uncovered hundreds of documents bearing various...
View ArticleChaney Step Zero: Judicial Review of FEC Deadlock Dismissals
Partisan polarization has infected our politics at levels not seen in decades. But what happens when the contamination spreads to the institutions responsible for regulating the political process...
View ArticleThe Unconstitutionality of the Federal Ban on Noncitizen Voting and...
Congress strikes at the core of state sovereignty when it disenfranchises voters. Yet demands for national disenfranchisement laws have become pervasive since the 2016 election, and Congress has a...
View ArticleEqualizing the Political Rights of Renters and Homeowners
The promise of democracy has not been kept to renters. The First Amendment protects renters and homeowners alike from governmental speech suppression, but neither landlord-tenant law nor civil rights...
View ArticleAdministrative Virtues
Administrative law has developed to incorporate insights from two philosophical perspectives: deontology and consequentialism. This Article elucidates administrative law’s reliance on those two...
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