In honor of #ConstitutionDay, take a look back with us over the last year at some of the important work done by members of the #GeorgetownLaw faculty to address core constitutional issues. /2
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@GeorgetownICAP filed a lawsuit last October on behalf of#Charlottesville to prevent Unite the Right organizers from repeating armed, paramilitary activities in the city. Just 11 months later, all 20 defendants agreed to sign consent decrees: https://nyti.ms/2MC1OM5 /3Show this thread -
A federal judge's decision in July to allow a lawsuit to proceed against President Trump relied heavily on scholarship by Professor
@_John_Mikhail about the original meaning of the term#emoluments:https://bit.ly/2xfYpO4Show this thread -
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@Laura_K_Donohue's scholarship on the original meaning of the 4th Amendment was cited by Justices Gorsuch and Thomas in their dissenting opinions in#Carpenter v. United States. Check out Prof. Donohue’s critique of the#SCOTUS decision: https://bit.ly/2xoVMZp /5Show this thread -
Last April, in Trump v. Hawaii, Professor
@Neal_Katyal argued on behalf of the state, asserting that the#POTUS#TravelBan exceeded the president’s authority under the nation’s immigration laws as well as the Establishment Clause of the#Constitution: https://bit.ly/2xbqAOb /6Show this thread -
Professor Erica Hashimoto’s scholarship received the highest accolade in May, when
#SCOTUS Justice Ginsburg quoted her article in the majority opinion in#6thAmendment#DeathPenalty case McCoy v. Louisiana: https://bit.ly/2xeHqLQ /7Show this thread -
The August cover story of
@NYTmag named Professor@RandyEBarnett as a leading#originalist influencer behind a sweeping transformation of the federal judiciary: http://nyti.ms/2MLgYCG /8Show this thread -
Professor Paul M. Smith argued
#Wisconsin#gerrymandering case Gill v. Whitford before#SCOTUS in October. The Court remanded the case in June, giving him another opportunity to demonstrate that partisan gerrymandering resulted in real & concrete harms: https://bit.ly/2OzTEW0 /9Show this thread -
In an episode of
#GeorgetownLaw’s original web series#Legalese, Professor@VicNourse provides a definition for a term that we’re hearing quite a bit lately:#ConstitutionalCrisis.https://bit.ly/2PKzB7EShow this thread -
“Free speech cannot be progressive,” wrote Professor Louis Michael Seidman in a popular and provocative piece that invited commentary from both sides of the political spectrum. Read the full article here: https://bit.ly/2KBHwCd /11
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“Judge
#Kavanaugh believes that the basic problem with the structure of government today is that the president has too little power, and that#Congress has too much.” - Professor Lisa Heinzerling (@heinzerlaw) testified at#SCOTUShearings: https://bit.ly/2x0rvQm /endpic.twitter.com/ita7dh5vaY
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