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What I Learned in Paralegal School vs On The Job

Paralegal Bootcamp

How School Helped Me Build a Strong Foundation 1. Legal Research and Writing In my first year of studying Paralegal Studies, my school provided us with Westlaw/LexisNexis (legal research software) that we used for legal research purposes. Get tips on improving your paralegal writing skills. GET ACCESS 3.

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Can the ‘War’ on Gun Violence Learn From the Mistakes of the War on Drugs?

The Crime Report

As states slowly started to legalize and decriminalize certain drugs, authorities have moved to less punitive approaches to address the social costs of addiction. Gun possession has remained a target at the forefront of the push to criminalize dangerous markets and dangerous behavior,” Levin wrote. “My

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‘Outrageous Outcomes’: Plea Bargaining and the Justice System

The Crime Report

I also wanted to find out whether there was any correlation between the tremendously bad criminal justice outcomes that we have in this country and the number of cases that we resolve by guilty plea. TCR: The first part of your book focuses on the roots of the current legal system in English Common. And I think that the answer is yes.

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Does a Crackdown on Right-Wing Domestic Terror Threaten Everyone’s Civil Liberties?

The Crime Report

Capitol, elected officials and terrorism experts revived previous calls for Congress to pass a domestic terrorism statute that would empower the federal government to investigate and pursue white supremacists and other domestic terrorists with the same tools it uses to go after international terrorism. Legal Landscape of Domestic Terrorism.

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Can Biden Resurrect the Justice Department ‘Slush Fund’?

The Crime Report

The Article I Appropriations Clause prohibits any Executive Branch official from disbursing funds except as provided by an act of Congress, and no statute authorizes this giveaway of the public’s money,” Larkin Jr. Reviving the practice would violate the Article I Appropriations Clause and a statute known as the McDade Amendment, Larkin Jr.

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The lives they lived and the court they shaped: Remembering those we lost in 2020

SCOTUSBlog

Cohen – who first met the Lovings when he was just 29 – filed a lawsuit on their behalf, challenging the Virginia law and similar state statutes as violating the 14th Amendment. Virginia , the court did find the statute unconstitutional. She was the first female law professor to receive tenure at Columbia University.

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

JonathanTurley

.” The problem, however, is that this is just like the transport of migrants to Martha’s Vineyard in September 2022, which a number of Democratic leaders and legal experts insisted was also a clear case of kidnapping and human trafficking. Newsom previously asked the U.S. To great acclaim, Rachael Rollins, then the U.S.

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