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Cherry-picked history and ideology-driven outcomes: Bruen’s originalist distortions

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Share This article is part of a symposium on the court’s decision in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Saul Cornell is the Paul and Diane Guenther chair in American history at Fordham University and adjunct professor of law at Fordham Law School. June, 2022).

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Biden’s “Come on, Man” Defense Will Not Fly on Religious Freedom

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In New York, the state is appealing a preliminary injunction against its refusal to allow religious exemptions to its vaccine mandate. Various commentators and activists are pushing states to follow the lead of New York and refuse to recognize any religious objections to vaccines.

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Term limits emerge as popular proposal at latest meeting of court-reform commission

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But the group does support a constitutional amendment imposing 18-year term limits and allowing each sitting president to fill two seats per four-year term, although the group believes that term limits imposed by statute would pose constitutional issues. Gabe Roth, executive director of Fix the Court, presented a different view.

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The lives they lived and the court they shaped: Remembering those we lost in 2022

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In 1973, Beckwith was a recent graduate of law school and was working as a political reporter for TIME magazine. During an illustrious career as a constitutional law scholar and a top Supreme Court advocate, Walter Dellinger argued 24 times before the court, including in some of the biggest cases of the past 30 years.

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Protests and “First Amendment Exceptionalism”: A Response to Professor Richard Epstein

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Tisch Professor of Law, New York University Law School, and a senior lecturer at the University of Chicago. Regrettably, too many First Amendment experts, like George Washington Law School Professor Jonathan Turley , have adopted what I termed a generation ago First Amendment exceptionalism.

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

JonathanTurley

Newsom cited the kidnapping statute but apparently failed to read it or the underlying cases. Moreover, it is not clear how transporting migrants who entered the country illegally to another state is a violation of law. If so, there would be a host of local Democratic and federal officials who could be charged on that basis.

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“Vote Reparations”: Law Professor Calls For The Votes of Black Americans To Count Twice

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Brandon Hasbrouck is an assistant professor at Washington and Lee University School of Law, has written an article in The Nation calling for a new form of reparations based on voting. This proposal would decouple voting rights from cases and statutes designed to protect the equality of voting. t is ours, too.

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