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Is the Glass Half-Full?: Gonzales v. Carhart and the Future of Abortion Jurisprudence
Is the Glass Half-Full?: Gonzales v. Carhart and the Future of Abortion Jurisprudence

BY PRISCILLA J. SMITH
In Gonzales v. Carhart, the Court reversed course from Stenberg v. Carhart, a decision issued just seven years before and, in a 5-4 decision written by Justice Kennedy, upheld the “Partial-Birth Abortion …

End Residential Racial Segregation: Build Communities that Look Like America

by FLORENCE WAGMAN ROISMAN
The gravest housing problem in the United States—indeed, I would say, the gravest of all domestic problems in the United States—is residential racial segregation, particularly as manifested in the concentration of African-Americans …

Mixed-Income Housing as Pre-Commitment Strategy

by JEFF LESLIE
Crowding poor people together, isolating them from mainstream opportunities, and providing substandard policing, education, and other services constitute bad public policy. Decades of experience with public housing projects that featured just this constellation …

Using Local and State Legislation to Preserve and Expand the Ability of Fair Housing Organizations to Prosecute the Discrimination They Uncover

by CRAIG GURIAN
Almost 40 years after the passage of the Fair Housing Act, we remain far from achieving the Act’s goal of creating “truly integrated and balanced living patterns.”2 Many metropolitan areas are still plagued …

Towards a Better State: Fostering Dialogue Between the Supreme Court and the Public Through a Public Comment Period

BY EVA DUGOFF
Since Marbury v. Madison in 1803, the case that “invented” judicial review, the Supreme Court has exercised this power sparingly; that is, until recently. In the 1860s the Supreme Court, exercising its power …

Lies, Damn Lies, and Voter IDs: The Fraud of Voter Fraud
Lies, Damn Lies, and Voter IDs: The Fraud of Voter Fraud

BY DAVID SCHULTZ
Claims of voter fraud effect a partisan divide, with Republicans generally supporting voter ID laws and Democrats opposing them. The United States Supreme Court has heard argument in two photo ID cases, and …

Substantive Detention Law Matters: The Big Questions About Guantanamo the Supreme Court Should Answer
Substantive Detention Law Matters: The Big Questions About Guantanamo the Supreme Court Should Answer

BY JUSTIN FLORENCE
Whom can the United States legally hold as an “enemy combatant” at Guantanamo Bay? What actions must an individual take to be subject to detention for the remainder of the “war on terror”? …

What Do Lawyers Know About Lethal Injection?
What Do Lawyers Know About Lethal Injection?

BY TY ALPER
In this Essay, I make the radical suggestion that various states’ lethal injection protocols should be developed with input from relevant experts in full view of the people in whose name they will …

Text, Purpose, and the Second Amendment
Text, Purpose, and the Second Amendment

BY CHRISTOPHER M. EGLESON
With its decision in Parker v. District of Columbia, the D.C. Circuit became the first federal appellate court ever to strike down a law under the Second Amendment, which guarantees “the right …

Hijacking the Privilege: Balancing Fairness and Security When Warrantless Wiretapping Threatens Attorney-Client Communications
Hijacking the Privilege: Balancing Fairness and Security When Warrantless Wiretapping Threatens Attorney-Client Communications

by William Wetmore
Shakir Baloch is a family doctor with a wife and a fifteen-year-old daughter. A native of Pakistan from a politically prominent family that supports progressive secularism in that country, Baloch moved to Canada …