Alexander is the founder of YOTUS and a Political Science & Economics Double-Major at the University of California, Los Angeles. He has written for the UCLA Undergraduate Law Journal and hopes to attend Law School after graduating.
A new campaign finance case is at the Supreme Court this term which, for some, harkens back to the Court’s decision in Citizens United v. FEC in 2010. However, there are some very important distinctions between this case, which involves aggregate campaign contribution limits for individuals, and Citizens United, which dealt with limits on independent expenditures of corporations, associations or…
After months of research and writing, I have finally finished my first undergraduate law journal article! In this paper I discuss the history of the 14th and 15th Amendments, voter discrimination, and the Voting Rights Act. I also analyze the recent 2013 Supreme Court decision that struck down the Act’s coverage formula which enabled it…
Just hours after the Supreme Court handed down their ruling in Shelby County v Holder, it became clear that it would not take long for states previously covered by the Voting Rights Act’s coverage formula to relapse, with states such as Texas, Mississippi, and Alabama moving immediately to enforce various voter identification laws that had not…
There has been a plethora of activity in the past few weeks regarding state bans of same-sex marriage. Most notably, Federal Judges in the United States District Courts for both the District of Utah and the Northern District of Oklahoma have have struck down their respective states’ ban on same-sex marriages, inspiring hope in those…
The Internet has been abuzz this week over the recent US Court of Appeals decision to strike down the FCC’s Net Neutrality Rules over Internet providers.1 With this news, many online blogs and news sites have taken to sensationalism, proclaiming that “Net Neutrality is [d]ead,” and that the court’s decision could “kill the Internet.”2 However, this…