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Oct 28

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The Constitution’s Political Deficit

Posted 208 days ago by HLPRonline editorial staff

There is a worrisome democratic deficit in our constitutional scheme, as well as two other problems that impact detrimentally our democratic commitments: a political deficit and a legal deficit. Our current dilemma exists not only because our written Constitution clearly tilts against representative democracy; our constitutional practices also tilt against politics, democratic or otherwise, and the ordinary law – legislation – that is its product.

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Oct 19

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The Democratic Deficit in America

Posted 217 days ago by HLPRonline editorial staff

The term “democratic deficit” has become a staple of contemporary political analysis. Most often used to analyze presumed deficiencies within the political order of the European Union, it has all too much application as well to our own political order within the United States. (Reposted)

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Apr 10

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Supporting Workers by Accounting for Care

Posted 408 days ago by HLPRonline editorial staff

Two pathologies in contemporary antipoverty policy—inadequate child-care assistance and failure to value parental caregiving as work—are flip sides of one coin.

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Apr 5

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Politics and the Federal Appointments Process

Posted 414 days ago by HLPRonline editorial staff

The main problem with the current appointments climate is that the President and the Senate are not being confrontational and combative enough.

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Mar 21

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Class Actions at the Crossroads

Posted 429 days ago by Editorial Staff

The Supreme Court has recently decided to hear argument in the largest private-employer civil rights case in American history, Dukes v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. . . .

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Mar 7

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Trust and Trash

Posted 443 days ago by Editorial Staff

“We have 90 to 95 percent unemployment on the reservation. We have people on fixed incomes, and . . . [at] the furthest point from the landfill, it would cost them $90 a month to haul their trash. . . .”

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Feb 28

Expecting the Unreasonable

Posted 450 days ago by Editorial Staff

Persons with disabilities can pose complex challenges to law enforcement officers charged with keeping the peace.

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Feb 21

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Bringing Change to Credit Cards

Posted 457 days ago by Editorial Staff

Spurred to action by crisis in global credit markets, the United States Congress passed the Credit Card Accountability Responsibility and Disclosure Act of 2009 (“Credit CARD Act”). In the Credit CARD Act, Congress turned away from more than thirty years of primarily disclosure-only regulation of credit cards.

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Jan 28

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Reading the State School Finance Litigation Tea Leaves

Posted 481 days ago by Editorial Staff

Ever since the Supreme Court held in San Antonio v. Rodriguez that education is not a fundamental right protected under the United States Constitution, legal efforts to advance the educational plight of disadvantaged school children have taken to state courts, where a new legal theory is emerging.

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Jan 9

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The Constitutional Option

Posted 500 days ago by Editorial Staff

by SENATOR TOM UDALL
The United States Senate has become a graveyard for good ideas—increasingly crippled by the partisan abuse of the institution’s own rules.

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