Framework for Freedom: Law Day 2018 focuses on separation of powers
May 1 is Law Day, and this year's celebration of the rule of law has its eyes on the separation of powers doctrine.
Tag: Separation of Powers
Horse majeure – justices opine that equine farm suit's out of time (Plaut v. Spendthrift Farms, Inc.)
When Ed Plaut bought shares in a Kentucky horse farm in 1983, he couldn’t have known that he would wind up at the intersection of a power struggle between two branches of government. But that’s exactly what happened in the case of Plaut v. Spendthrift Farm, Inc., 514 U.S. 211 (1995).
Civil commitment ruled the Necessary and Proper thing to do (United States v. Comstock)
The attorney general brought an action pursuant to this law, seeking the civil commitment of Graydon Comstock and four other men scheduled for release from a federal prison. The inmates challenged the law on the ground that Congress had encroached on state police powers.
Congress' power-up to the president finds staying power in SCOTUS (United States v. Curtiss-Wright Export Corp.)
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Facing deportation, one immigrant took his case to SCOTUS – and won (Immigration and Naturalization Service v. Chadha)
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What were an American's rights after the 9/11 attacks? (Hamdi v. Rumsfeld)
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Congress makes Exceptions that doom editor (Ex parte McCardle)
When a newspaper editor in the antebellum South was arrested for writing articles critical of the post-Civil War Reconstruction, he set in motion a chain of events that would lead to one of the key historic cases on the separation of powers.
Independent counsels born of Watergate, upheld in Morrison v. Olson
In response to the Watergate scandal and the Saturday Night Massacre that occurred under the Nixon presidential administration, Congress passed the Ethics in Government Act of 1978, which imposed a number of ethical obligations on government officials and public sector employees.
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