Talk:Holman rule

A fact from Holman rule appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 22 April 2017 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the January 2017 reinstatement of the Holman Rule allows members of the United States House of Representatives to amend routine spending bills to mandate the firing of individual Federal employees?

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Perspectives from academics

At least one academic (Rick Hills at NYU Law School) has suggested that this rule may be an unconstitutional bill of attainder, per United States v. Lovett. I haven't found other published commentary regarding the constitutionality of the rule, but if other academics opine on this issue, then we may want to add coverage of their comments. -- Notecardforfree (talk) 04:48, 26 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Patricia J. Williams has written on the same point, see here. I've added. Thanks. Neutrality^talk 04:16, 4 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]