Right now, there are six vacant seats on the very busy federal District Courts in Texas, with no nominee pending to fill any of those vacancies, four of which are considered to be judicial emergencies. One of those six vacancies dates back to November 2008, and two of them to 2011. Last week,...
At Bench Memos, Roger Clegg argues that the information recently released by the Census Bureau concerning voter turnout in the 2012 elections provides further evidence that the Voting Rights Act’s preclearance requirement – in many ways the heart and soul of the Act – is unconstitutional and should...
CAC Board Member Prof. Akhil Reed Amar helped kick off the new four-part series “Constitution USA” on PBS Tuesday night. Described by host Peter Sagal as “the Yoda of constitutional law,” Amar is featured in “A More Perfect Union,” the episode of the series focusing on federalism. The full episode...
