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Police Suggest Possible Charges for Those Who Filmed Rape on Train

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The recent rape of a woman on a train in Pennsylvania has shocked and disgusted the nation, particularly after passengers did nothing to help the woman as she was allegedly attacked by Fiston Ngoy, 35. I am unaware of such a law in Pennsylvania, but these laws are rarely enforced. The charge was later dismissed.

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Biden to create bipartisan commission on Supreme Court reform

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The other 34 members of the commission include lawyers, think-tank scholars, law professors and retired judges. A full list of commission members is below: Michelle Adams, professor of law at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. Kate Andrias, professor of law at the University of Michigan. Guy-Uriel E. Cristina M.

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

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From legendary lawyers to lesser-known activists, journalists, and plaintiffs, the following individuals who died in 2022 all shaped the court and the law in their own ways. 18, 1983, a 31-year-old lawyer with a ponytail stood at the Supreme Court lectern. It was there that she met the civil-rights lawyer Thurgood Marshall.

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Fetterman Turns to Controversial Clinton Lawyer Marc Elias’ Firm to Strike Down Pennsylvania Election Provisions

JonathanTurley

Democratic Senate candidate John Fetterman and other Democrats have filed a federal lawsuit to strike down parts of Pennsylvania’s election law after the state Supreme Court ruled that mail-in ballots with incorrect dates or no dates should not be counted.Fetterman is challenging the state law on constitutional and federal statutes.

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“[You] are not Included on the List”: Florida Warns the Justice Department on Positioning Federal Monitors Inside Florida Polling Places

JonathanTurley

We previously discussed Fetterman’s recent effort to enlist the firm of controversial Clinton lawyer Marc Elias to get a federal court to strike down a Pennsylvania election provision. There are already dozens of lawsuits from both parties filed across the country. Now Florida Gov.

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Produce over Politics: Whole Foods Fights for Right to Bar Political Advocacy in Workplace

JonathanTurley

NLRB lawyers are arguing that Whole Foods must allow workers to wear “Black Lives Matter” masks at work, suggesting — in effect — that Bezos should start with the worker and work forward by allowing them to advocate for social change. That, of course, could change — the minute an NLRB lawyer shows up wearing a MAGA hat.

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Texas History Professor Fired For Criticizing Mike Pence Files First Amendment Challenge

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There was also such an incident at the University of London involving Bahar Mustafa as well as one involving a University of Pennsylvania professor. Loomis also writes for the site “Lawyers, Guns, and Money.”)