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Race and College Admissions: The Supreme Court’s Train Whistle Docket Just Got a Lot Louder

JonathanTurley

University of North Carolina. The last time the court dealt with the issue of race in admissions was 2016 in Fisher v. The court upheld the use of race in the admissions process of the University of Texas at Austin by a vote of 4-3. President & Fellows of Harvard and Students for Fair Admissions v.

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Georgetown Professor Denounces “Lawless” and “Actively Rogue” Justices, Lawyers, and Law Professors

JonathanTurley

She has called for “genuine” law professors not to fall “into complicity with lawlessness” in teaching such subjects. It is the latest voice of intolerance and orthodoxy at a leading law school. In the age of rage, calls for radical action from both professors and students have been particularly amplified at Georgetown University.

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How the Supreme Court Laid the Foundations for ‘Racialized Policing’

The Crime Report

When Berkeley Law School Dean and constitutional scholar Erwin Chemerinsky taught Criminal Procedure in the Fall of 2019, he became frustrated when he realized many of the cases that were the subject of his lectures ended with the police winning and the rights of suspects losing. THE CRIME REPORT: Does that frustrate you?

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