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With Thomas in hospital, eight justices hear N.C. Republicans’ plea to intervene in voter-ID lawsuit

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After the law went into effect over a veto by the state’s governor, Democrat Roy Cooper, the North Carolina NAACP went to federal court, arguing that the law violates both federal voting rights laws and the Constitution. In Berger v. Doesn’t that just make things more complicated?”.

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

JonathanTurley

Indeed, last week my study on the decline of free speech was published with other example of this rising orthodoxy among faculty members (“ Harm and Hegemony: The Decline of Free Speech in the United States ”). It is not enough for Professor Feldman to passionately disagree with the constitutional interpretation of the Court or other faculty.

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UNC Law Student Who Questioned Racial Incident Is Disqualified From Running For New Office

JonathanTurley

We recently discussed the case of University of North Carolina law student Sagar Sharma, a student of color, who faced a recall election as the first-year class co-president. Being a lawyer requires a certain level of decorum and professionalism within the institutional setting. There is no room for insults and anger.

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We read all the amicus briefs in Dobbs so you don’t have to

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The Christian Legal Society and Robertson Center for Constitutional Law , Concerned Women for America , and Judicial Watch, Inc. The brief was filed by Jonathan Mitchell, the anti-abortion lawyer who designed Texas’ six-week abortion ban and argued before the court on Nov. 1 in support of that law.