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Vol. 135 No. 8 For a significant portion of American history, gun laws bore the ugly taint of racism. The founding generation that wrote the Second Amendment had...
Vol. 135 No. 8 Introduction Like many places in central Louisiana, Grant Parish became a haven for oil and gas prospecting in the late 1890s. Once speculators discovered...
Vol. 135 No. 8 Introduction Debates over delegation are experiencing a renaissance. These debates presuppose an initial distribution of constitutional authority between actors that cannot be redistributed, or...
In December 2021, New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art unceremoniously removed the “Sackler” name from galleries funded by the billionaire family. At the time...
Introduction Millions of debt cases are filed in the civil courts every year. In debt actions, asymmetrical representation is the norm, with the plaintiff...
Introduction Professor Daniel Wilf-Townsend’s Assembly-Line Plaintiffs shines an empirical light on state courts and quantifies a world where “debt cases comprise[] the preponderant majority...
The Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA) imposes a minimum fifteen-year sentence for violating 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) after three “violent felony” or “serious drug offense”...
Introduction The United States faces a serious risk that the 2024 presidential election, and other future U.S. elections, will not be conducted fairly and...