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Cherry-picked history and ideology-driven outcomes: Bruen’s originalist distortions

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Bruen invokes the authority of history but presents a version of the past that is little more than an ideological fantasy, much of it invented by gun-rights advocates and their libertarian allies in the legal academy with the express purpose of bolstering litigation such as Bruen. Justice Samuel Alito recognized this fact in McDonald v.

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The lives they lived and the court they shaped: Remembering those we lost in 2022

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This spring, after POLITICO published a draft opinion of Dobbs and revealed that the court was poised to overturn Roe , Beckwith praised the leak. Curtis, who grew up in Georgia with cognitive and developmental disabilities, always hoped to leave these facilities and move back into her community. Lois Curtis (July 14, 1967 – Nov.

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“Just Do It”: Democrats Continue to Struggle to Find a Crime to fit the Offense

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Yesterday’s hearing exposed Clark’s efforts to challenge the election, including a letter that was wildly inappropriate that he drafted for the top Justice officials to sign. A Georgia grand jury is looking into the separate possibility of state election fraud violations.).