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What I’m Reading — Oct. 25

Posted on 25 October 2011

It’s been a busy few weeks; here’s a little bit of what I’ve been able to read: Justice Scalia to lawyers: Read more, write better — Justice Scalia recently gave a speech to the Bar Association of the City of … Continue reading →

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Administration appeals Alabama immigration law decision

Posted on 12 October 2011

The Justice Department on Friday appealed the decision of a federal district court judge in Alabama, Sharon Lovelace Blackburn, who enjoined several sections of Alabama’s new state immigration law after the Justice Department had sued the State of Alabama, challenging … Continue reading →

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Guess I Won’t Be Counting Stevens’ Circuit Court Opinions

Posted on 3 October 2011

Retired Associate Justice John Paul Stevens will likely not be hearing cases in the federal appeals courts, he told Adam Liptak of the New York Times: “David [Souter] and Sandra [Day O'Connor, his fellow retired colleagues] have enjoyed it,” Justice … Continue reading →

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What I’m Reading — Sept. 28

Posted on 28 September 2011

SCOTUS for law students: Health-care litigation — The redesigned SCOTUSblog has debuted this feature that focuses on “cases and hot topics at the Court with a special focus on how they relate to what law students are learning in their classes.” … Continue reading →

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Postscript: Immigrant visas for the right price

Posted on 13 September 2011

As a postscript to my last post, I wanted to highlight another round of reader comments on Andrew Sullivan’s Dish blog about how much it costs to file for immigration benefits. Below is one Dish commenter’s application for lawful permanent … Continue reading →

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Immigrant visas for the right price: the immigration tariff Idea

Posted on 1 September 2011

The idea to dramatically reform American immigration law and replace it with an “immigration tariff” has generated a fair amount of discussion in recent weeks. Noticed by Alex Nowrasteh, and first proposed by the Nobel Prize in Economics-winning Gary Becker, … Continue reading →

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What I’m Reading — August 16

Posted on 16 August 2011

Immigration Audits Drive Illegal Workers Underground — This Wall Street Journal article focuses on the use of immigration audits of employers: The audits, started by the Obama administration in 2009, put the onus on business to police workers, requiring companies … Continue reading →

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Catching up on the week’s news: SB 1070 and Healthcare Reform

Posted on 13 August 2011

Two big developments in simmering policy and legal controversies this week. First, the State of Arizona filed a certiorari petition with the Supreme Court, asking the Court to review the injunction that a federal judge imposed prohibiting the enforcement of … Continue reading →

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John F. Kennedy’s A Nation of Immigrants

Posted on 11 August 2011

The other day I obtained A Nation of Immigrants by John F. Kennedy, from my university’s wonderfully large main library. First written in the 1950s when he was still a senator, it contains a short history of immigration in America (including … Continue reading →

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What I’m Reading — August 11

Posted on 11 August 2011

How Rep. Austin Scott betrayed his Tea Party roots — Dana Milbank, whose smugness I normally avoid, has a column on a one-sentence House bill that would abolish the Legal Services Corporation, filed in response to an EEOC determination that … Continue reading →

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