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Minnesota Law School Drops Exclusion of Whites and Males from Diversity Scholarship

JonathanTurley

There is a curious resolution of a civil right complaint against University of Minnesota Law School over a diversity fellowship sponsored by the law firm of Jones Day. Despite being created by a law firm and administered by a law school, the fellowship violated federal law in excluding white and male applicants.

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Police Groups Ask The University of Minnesota To Investigate Student’s Call To Make Life “Hell” For Officers

JonathanTurley

Minnesota Police and Peace Officers Association and the Law Enforcement Labor Services has taken the unusual (if not unprecedented) step of asking the University of Minnesota to investigate a student for her call to make the lives of campus police a living “hell.”

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SCOTUS Concludes Oral Arguments for the Term

Constitutional Law Reporter

Hennepin County, Minnesota : The case involvesHennepin County’s confiscation and sale of 93-year-old Geraldine Tyler’s former home as payment for approximately $15,000 in property taxes, penalties, interest, and costs. The County sold the home for $40,000, and, consistent with a Minnesota forfeiture statute, kept all proceeds.

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Are You in an Anti-Free Speech State? We Now Have The Definitive List

JonathanTurley

So here is the list to see if you are residing in an anti-free speech state: Arizona Colorado Connecticut Delaware Hawaii Illinois Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Nevada New Jersey New Mexico, New York Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island Vermont Washington Wisconsin District of Columbia Here is the brief: Missouri v.

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Supreme Court Holds Retaining Excess Value Violated Takings Clause

Constitutional Law Reporter

Facts of the Case Geraldine Tyler owned a condominium in Hennepin County, Minnesota, that accumulated about $15,000 in unpaid real estate taxes along with interest and penalties. The post Supreme Court Holds Retaining Excess Value Violated Takings Clause appeared first on Constitutional Law Reporter.

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Ballot Cleansing: Democrats are Moving to Bar Republicans from Ballots Nationwide

JonathanTurley

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Jamaal Bowman and Ritchie Torres and “Squad” members Ilhan Omar of Minnesota and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan. Cori Bush (D-Mo.) to disqualify members got 63 co-sponsors, all Democrats, including New York Reps. When Maine’s secretary of state disqualified Trump, three in the state’s congressional delegation — Sens.

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Michigan Court Rejects Effort to Disqualify Donald Trump

JonathanTurley

Judge Redford also rejected the effort of Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson (D) under state law to remove candidates from the ballot based on that provision. Last week, the Minnesota Supreme Court ruled in a similar case that Trump could not be removed from the primary ballot in that state.

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