McAffee's Machinations

By Gigi Generaux On Saturday, March 30th, constitutional law scholar Erwin Chemerinsky came to speak on the question of marriage equality at the William S. Boyd School of Law on the University of Nevada, Las Vegas campus. Chemerinsky is founding dean of the University of California, Irvine, School of Law, a former professor of the Duke [...]

By Dylan Kama This article originally appeared in The Nevada View.  The United States Supreme Court has begun hearing oral arguments in the case Shelby County v. Holder, which examines the constitutionality of Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act.  Section 5 requires a process called “pre-clearance,” whereby a panel of judges determines whether a state’s change [...]

It’s undoubtedly a sign of the times that a perfectly well qualified nominee for a federal judgeship could be essentially vetoed by her home-state Senator for having once stated the “wrong” opinion on the nature of the right guaranteed by the Second Amendment. On March 8, Judge Cadish, a Nevada judge who had been nominated [...]

This blog has published The Supreme Court and the Practice of Racial Profiling/Racialized Policing.  And it included an article I wrote that was just published. Setting Us Up for Disaster:  The Supreme Court’s Decision in Terry v. Ohio,  12 Nev. L. J. 609 (2012). Illustrative of the analysis supplied in the described article is the [...]