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In “Verdict,” a Justia column, Professors Vik Amar and Jason Mazzone explain the “converse-1983” concept, and how this bill implements a Bivens-like framework, albeit perhaps flawed in certain ways.

Here it is again, the now-classic article by Professor Amar early in his career, where he lays out the arguments for how our Federalist system properly structured allows the states to safeguard liberty when the Federal government would violate it, much as the federal government fulfills that role vis-a-vis the states through 42 U.S.C. 1983.

The New York Times provides a pointed and proving analysis of one state’s (NJ) voting in the recent gubernatorial election, and why it may be a quite significant indicator of things to come.