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

The Crime Report

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. Benjamin Levin is an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Colorado Law School.

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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. but as individual criminal cases.

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

SCOTUSBlog

As the year comes to a close, SCOTUSblog looks back at some of the individuals who died in 2020 after living lives that brought them – at different times and for different reasons – to the Supreme Court of the United States. All left an imprint on the court or the law. Virginia , the court did find the statute unconstitutional.

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Is Hunter Biden Pursuing a Jury Nullification Strategy?

JonathanTurley

At another, he adopted an argument of the National Rifle Association challenging the underlying statute. In 2020, Joe Biden received roughly 60 percent of the vote over Donald Trump in the state. In Wilmington itself in 2020, Biden received 26,698 votes to Trump’s 3,580. Jonathan Turley is the J.B. and Maurice C.

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Profile of a potential nominee: Leondra Kruger

SCOTUSBlog

Share During a 2020 Democratic presidential primary debate, then-candidate Joe Biden pledged that, if elected, he would nominate a Black woman to serve on the U.S. After Harvard, Kruger went to Yale Law School, where she was the editor in chief of the Yale Law Journal – the first Black woman to hold that job.

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Cannon Fodder: The Media Piles on Federal Judge After Lionizing Manhattan Judge

JonathanTurley

In 2020, Judge Cannon was confirmed in a bipartisan vote, with the support of liberals such as Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) These critics often stress that she is an appointee of Trump, even though many Trump appointees have ruled against the former president on 2020 election issues. and Dianne Feinstein (D-Cal.).