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US dispatch: ‘independent state legislature’ theory raised by Moore v. Harper threatens US election administration

JURIST

Marisa Wright is a US National Correspondent for JURIST, and a 2L at Harvard Law School. . Harper stems from a challenge to North Carolina’s congressional and legislative redistricting plan as unconstitutional partisan gerrymanders. The North Carolina General Assembly immediately appealed that ruling.

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How the Supreme Court Laid the Foundations for ‘Racialized Policing’

The Crime Report

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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