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Word of the Month for August 2019: Stare Decisis

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In School District of Abington Township, Pennsylvania v. In an 8-1 decision, the Court found that the Pennsylvania law and school-district practice violated the Establishment Clause and the Free Exercise Clause. Schempp , 374 U.S. Schempp , 374 U.S.

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Biden to create bipartisan commission on Supreme Court reform

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Balkin, Knight Professor of Constitutional Law and the First Amendment at Yale Law School. Bob Bauer (co-chair), professor of practice, distinguished scholar in residence and co-director of the Legislative and Regulatory Process Clinic at New York University School of Law. Sovern Professor of Law at Columbia University.

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“A Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy or Perhaps Both”: ACLU Opposes Transparency Law on Educational Materials

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The ACLU historically opposed laws that denied free speech and other rights under the Constitution, a legacy that I have long cherished and supported. However, this is a transparency law that simply requires teachers and schools to post the educational materials used in class online. This brings us back to the model law.

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

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During an illustrious career as a constitutional law scholar and a top Supreme Court advocate, Walter Dellinger argued 24 times before the court, including in some of the biggest cases of the past 30 years. Board of Education. Casey , in which he argued in support of Pennsylvania abortion restrictions.

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Time Columnist Denounces Free Speech as a White Man’s “Obsession”

JonathanTurley

” It appears that Alter’s humanities education in college allows her to see “nuances” that escape the rest of us, including some of us who are not “trained as engineers.” None of these degrees bestow basis for claiming superior knowledge of constitutional law or human rights.

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Crimson Tide: A New Study Shows the Continued Decline of Free Speech on Campuses

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The recent ranking of schools by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) on free speech in higher education certainly fulfilled that reputation, but not in the way most would want. For many, the speech intolerance on campus is crossing the line from education to indoctrination. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.)

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Justices take up cases on veterans’ education benefits and 16th Amendment

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Share The Supreme Court on Monday added two new cases to its docket for the 2023-24 term, involving educational benefits for veterans and a rare appearance by the 16th Amendment. The issue came to the court in a dispute arising from environmental contamination from a wood-treatment plant operated by Kerr-McGee in Avoca, Pennsylvania.