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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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UNC Law Student Who Questioned Racial Incident Is Disqualified From Running For New Office

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The charges are connected to the prior controversy and raise serious free speech and retaliatory concerns at the law school. . Sharma was targeted at UNC Law School because he would not agree that a recent exchange between law students involved a racial insult. General Construction Co. , 269 U.S.

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Biden’s “Come on, Man” Defense Will Not Fly on Religious Freedom

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This week, Jessica Levinson, a clinical professor of law at Loyola Marymount Law School in Los Angeles, wrote a column for MSNBC entitled “Covid Vaccine Religious Exemptions Should Not Exist.” That, however, is precisely what these litigants are seeking to raise.

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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. 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.

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California Dreaming: Newsom’s Kidnapping Claim Against DeSantis is Long on Politics and Short on the Law

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Newsom cited the kidnapping statute but apparently failed to read it or the underlying cases. While civil litigation is ongoing, the supposedly clear criminal charges have not been brought by Democratic prosecutors clearly motivated to do so. The reason is that these claims are made for cable news, not courts of law.

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

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Featured prominently on the law school’s website , the article pushes a similar proposal made in the Washington Post in 2015 by Theodore Johnson, a senior fellow at the Brennan Center for Justice. Ironically, the proposals would upend decades of civil rights litigation to defend the “one man, one vote” principle.

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The House ‘Concentrates the Mind’ of Hunter Biden with a Game-Changing Subpoena

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Moreover, Hunter has tried a wide array of approaches to these allegations of influence peddling, from a plea for sympathy to threats of litigation. Thus far, he has received every break from federal prosecutors, from expired statutes of limitations to reported tip-offs on investigators’ interviews. That may now change.

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