Con law hypos from recent events? Forum

1l2016 · Post by **1l2016** » Mon May 05, 2014 6:52 pm

Anyone know of any recent events that might make for potential exam questions? In particular, any 14th Amendment related stuff?

RedGiant · Post by **RedGiant** » Mon May 05, 2014 10:43 pm

I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say the recent MI affirmative action cases: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/23/us/su ... .html?_r=0

1l2016 · Post by **1l2016** » Mon May 05, 2014 11:46 pm

How would that be tested though? From my understanding, that case is just about whether voters can vote to reject affirmative action programs.

encore1101 · Post by **encore1101** » Tue May 06, 2014 12:08 am

gay marriage? altho lower court decisions are pretty unanimous in their ruling so far

FSK · Post by **FSK** » Wed May 07, 2014 9:16 am

BVest · Post by **BVest** » Wed May 07, 2014 12:05 pm

As mentioned, there have been a bunch of D Ct rulings on state same-sex marriage bans in light of last year's decisions. Those will be bubbling up soon enough. I suspect the Circuit courts will be a little more divided than the districts, (at least the 5th).

sap · Post by **sap** » Wed May 07, 2014 3:43 pm

1l2016 wrote:How would that be tested though? From my understanding, that case is just about whether voters can vote to reject affirmative action programs.

My ConLaw exam last semester asked a question about this - under the (pre-Schuette obvs) restructuring doctrine, could Congress ban it and what implementation advice would you give to make the ban most likely to survive a challenge?

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