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Diversity by diktat: An obscure 1977 OMB memo forms the basis for today’s affirmative-action programs

SCOTUSBlog

Bernstein holds a university professorship chair at George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School. Ever since the Supreme Court decided the Bakke case in 1978, enhancing the “diversity” of a school’s student body has been the only permissible rationale for affirmative-action preferences in higher education.

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ABA Midyear Meeting 2019

LegalTalkNetwork

hails from Butte, Montana. We also learned more about the ABA’s actions in immigration, the government shutdown, and changes to their website. Immigration System. Immigration Removal System. Of particular mention, we sat down with ABA President Bob Carlson, whose small firm (Corette Black Carlson & Mickelson, P.C.)

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Why Do We Treat Sex Crimes Differently Than Other Violent Crimes?

The Crime Report

“I’m kind of saying to people, you think that this is like enlightenment, creating more sex crimes every day, getting tougher on sex crimes, but look at some of the history, even the recent history and you start to question that instinct,” Gruber said of her research.

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Hunter’s Heroic Epic: Biden Files Motion Comparing Himself to Dead Romanovs and Ancient Greek Heroes

JonathanTurley

It then gets really weird… Here is the column: Hunter Biden is comparable to children in Japanese internment camps, to undocumented immigrants, to the murdered descendants of the Tsar. Recently, the government has revealed that, when it recovered the gun after its was discarded near a school, the gun pouch was coated in cocaine.

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Divided court declines to reinstate Biden’s immigration guidelines, sets case for argument this fall

SCOTUSBlog

Share The Supreme Court will again weigh the executive branch’s authority to set immigration policy as some red states claim that the Biden administration’s enforcement decisions are too lax. In a separate case, Arizona, Montana, and Ohio also challenged the policy in a federal district court in Ohio.