Links of Interest: August 27-31, 2012
Elections and Judicial Performance
- Election Law Blog analyzes the decision holding that Texas’ Voter ID law violates the Voting Rights Act.
- Gavel To Gavel provides a comprehensive overview of Florida’s proposed merit selection amendment.
Criminal Justice
- Sentencing Law and Policy drew our attention to “Drugs, Dignity and Danger: Human Dignity as a Constitutional Constraint to Limit Overcriminalization”, a new paper by Professor Michal Buchhandler-Raphael.
Immigration
- ImmigrationProfBlog has this abstract of a symposium article analyzing the failure of the U.S. government on remand to seek to remove the asylum-seeker from the United States, in the context of the leading Supreme Court decision in INS v. Cardoza-Fonseca.
- The American Constitution Society writes “A Bad Day at the Office for Immigration Restrictionists“, analyzing a trio of Eleventh Circuit cases reading Arizona v. United States as severely limiting state authority to legislate in the area of immigration.
SCOTUSblog has excellent coverage of the Arizona case. In other post-Arizona news, FAIR also reports that Alabama has been enjoined from collecting immigration status information in K-12 classrooms.
Other Links
- David Bernstein reacts to Judge Posner’s review of Justice Scalia’s book (written with Bryan Garner), which appeared in the New Republic.
Other reviews of the book: Slate, Above the Law, and the Wall Street Journal.
- Feministing highlights an ACLU report prepared for the Department of Education Office of Civil Rights, finding that single-sex education programs within coeducational schools are “widely out of compliance with Title IX”.