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SCOTUSBlog
FEBRUARY 28, 2023
United States felt like a legislation class in law school, with various canons of statutory construction being bandied about. Dubin concerns the reach of the federal aggravated identity theft statute and whether a person must steal another’s identity to commit the crime. But Fisher did not stop there.
SCOTUSBlog
JUNE 28, 2022
Sherif Girgis is an associate professor of law at Notre Dame Law School. And to what will it bind lower courts? Dobbs reiterates the long-established principle that unwritten rights, to be enforced by courts, must be deeply rooted in our history. How does Dobbs ’s historical analysis fare against the dissent?
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The Crime Report
APRIL 14, 2022
In most urban and suburban areas, particularly in Texas, it’s “nearly impossible to go about one’s day without entering a school zone,” which in turn conflicts with a citizen’s ability to exercise a right guaranteed under the Constitution, as interpreted by the Supreme Court, writes Tyler Smotherman, a J.D.
At the Lectern
MARCH 11, 2022
At the Supreme Court’s Wednesday conference — a double one, and with only six justices participating because of Justice Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar’s retirement at the end of October — actions of note included: Bail denial. ” The Court of Appeal had summarily denied the defendant’s habeas corpus petition.
The Crime Report
OCTOBER 5, 2021
That’s a lesson worth applying to current strategies addressing the epidemic of gun violence, writes Benjamin Levin , an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Colorado Law School. In 2000, 54 percent of the state court defendants convicted for weapons crimes were black, as compared to 44 percent white.
The Crime Report
APRIL 8, 2022
A common misconception, perpetuated by popular television shows and movies, as well as the Sixth Amendment, is that everyone gets their day in court. From about the 1600s, they had a gigantic Criminal Code where everything was a felony and every felony was punishable by death. The courts are not for landless laborers.
The Crime Report
MARCH 7, 2022
More than 60 crimes fall under the hate crime statute in New York, from simple menacing to possession of a biological weapon. The state data shows that the more serious felony arrests for hate crimes yielded felony convictions — whether as a hate crime or not — in 19 percent of the cases closed citywide between 2015 and 2020.
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