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Q&A With Elena Kohn: Balancing the Fundamentals

Attorney at Work

I graduated from law school here in Florida, receiving the highest grade in our class on constitutional law because I was genuinely fascinated by our separation of powers and checks and balances, given how different it was from my birth country. What was your experience like after graduating from law school?

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Who’ll Shoot First? How Relaxed Gun Rules Fuel a ‘Small Arms Race’

The Crime Report

Looking at a scaled down version of mid-century nuclear strategy, a vignette of two people encountering one another in a low-lit side street late at night details how these relaxed vigilante justice laws can turn deadly. The authors create a scenario of two men, Lee and Jesse, both of whom are sporting firearms on hip holsters.

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The Rise of Gotcha Legislation: Newsom and DeSantis are Legislating Soundbites and Voters are Loving it.

JonathanTurley

Once declared unconstitutional, the California law would return to little more than a soundbite (to quote Macbeth) full of “sound and fury, signifying nothing.”. In the end, however, it is distinctly possible that these gotcha laws will not move a single person or gun out of their respective states.

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A League of Their Own: The Rollins Decision Follows a Troubling Pattern at the DOJ

JonathanTurley

The investigation also found an array of other violations, including disregarding ethical warnings on political activities and soliciting expensive sports tickets. Jonathan Turley, an attorney, constitutional law scholar and legal analyst, is the Shapiro Chair for Public Interest Law at The George Washington University Law School.