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

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Saul Cornell is the Paul and Diane Guenther chair in American history at Fordham University and adjunct professor of law at Fordham Law School. But the Texas statute, and the rationales set forth in English and Duke , are outliers.” The majority opinion in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v.

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

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In 1973, Beckwith was a recent graduate of law school and was working as a political reporter for TIME magazine. Curtis, who grew up in Georgia with cognitive and developmental disabilities, always hoped to leave these facilities and move back into her community. Forty-nine years before the leaked opinion in Dobbs v.

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“Vote Reparations”: Law Professor Calls For The Votes of Black Americans To Count Twice

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Brandon Hasbrouck is an assistant professor at Washington and Lee University School of Law, has written an article in The Nation calling for a new form of reparations based on voting. the outcomes in Georgia, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania were worryingly close.”. t is ours, too. It must be ours.”.

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