JURIST
DECEMBER 6, 2022
Marisa Wright is a US National Correspondent for JURIST, and a 2L at Harvard Law School. . Instead, it refers more broadly to any individual or body that possesses some part of the power to make laws within a state — what the Court referred to as the ‘legislative power.’” Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission (2015).
The Crime Report
APRIL 8, 2022
We also have a much higher rate of plea bargain cases than the rest of the world: almost 20 percent higher than just about any other common law country. However, after the industrial revolution [and the rise of] the English working classes, there just weren’t enough police to keep whacking people over the head with the criminal law.
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JonathanTurley
NOVEMBER 29, 2021
The oral argument is scheduled for December 1st, the same week that the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit will hear an expedited appeal over the even more stringent Texas abortion law. Indeed, the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was a critic of Roe , seeing it as too sweeping in supplanting state laws.
ClimateChange-ClimateLaw
DECEMBER 6, 2021
Since about the time these lawyers were born, the days were waning when the Constitution was only for men; we attended law school when, for the first time in history, female students began to equal the number of male students. It is an assault on our very lives and freedom. Wade to Plessy v. For anyone who listened, the Dobbs v.
The Crime Report
NOVEMBER 19, 2021
When Berkeley Law School Dean and constitutional scholar Erwin Chemerinsky taught Criminal Procedure in the Fall of 2019, he became frustrated when he realized many of the cases that were the subject of his lectures ended with the police winning and the rights of suspects losing. Or does stare decisis make it stuck as a precedent?
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