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Supreme Court’s Landmark Affirmative Action Decision Strikes Down Raced-Based Admissions

Constitutional Law Reporter

University of North Carolina , the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the college admissions programs of Harvard University and the University of North Carolina. The Court held that the raced-based policies violated the Constitution’s Equal Protection Clause. In Students for Fair Admissions v.

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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

In a series of tweets this week, Professor Heidi Li Feldman has denounced “lawless” and “actively rogue” Supreme Court justices and professors who disagree with her views on the Constitution. She has called for “genuine” law professors not to fall “into complicity with lawlessness” in teaching such subjects.

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

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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. There have been some justices who have stressed it.

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

SCOTUSBlog

Jackson Women’s Health Organization , the potentially momentous abortion case concerning a Mississippi law banning abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy. Twelve governors write similarly that the court’s abortion precedent represents an “intrusion into the sovereign sphere of the States.” 1 in support of that law.