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Should Universities Offer Black Bereavement Leave?

JonathanTurley

the University of North Carolina between Justice Amy Coney Barrett and David Hinojosa is the director of the Educational Opportunities Project at the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law: JUSTICE BARRETT: One question.

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UNC Law Student Who Questioned Racial Incident Is Disqualified From Running For New Office

JonathanTurley

We recently discussed the case of University of North Carolina law student Sagar Sharma, a student of color, who faced a recall election as the first-year class co-president. Being a lawyer requires a certain level of decorum and professionalism within the institutional setting. There is no room for insults and anger.

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With Thomas in hospital, eight justices hear N.C. Republicans’ plea to intervene in voter-ID lawsuit

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After the law went into effect over a veto by the state’s governor, Democrat Roy Cooper, the North Carolina NAACP went to federal court, arguing that the law violates both federal voting rights laws and the Constitution. In Berger v. Doesn’t that just make things more complicated?”.

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Minnesota Law School Drops Exclusion of Whites and Males from Diversity Scholarship

JonathanTurley

The firm website maintains that “We aggressively pursue hiring, retaining, and developing lawyers from historically underrepresented groups and backgrounds.” University of North Carolina. President & Fellows of Harvard College and Students for Fair Admissions, Inc.

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Turley Speaks to the 2022 Ohio Judicial Conference

JonathanTurley

Today I have the honor of speaking to the judges and lawyers in the 2022 Ohio Judicial conference on the Supreme Court in Columbus, Ohio. Elenis: A web designer challenging Colorado’s public accommodations law after declining to provide services for the marriages of same-sex couples. Students for Fair Admissions v.

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Shapiro Resigns From Georgetown After the Law School Reinstates Him on a “Technicality”

JonathanTurley

One such campaign led to a truly tragic outcome with criminology professor Mike Adams at the University of North Carolina (Wilmington). He then tweeted a condemnation of North Carolina Gov. Adams was a conservative faculty member with controversial writings who had to go to court to stop prior efforts to remove him.

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Crunching the Numbers: Does Justice Jackson’s Dissent on Affirmative Action Add Up?

JonathanTurley

That is not the case with a mathematical challenge raised to the dissent of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson in the North Carolina affirmative action case. In a Wall Street Journal column , lawyer Ted Frank objects to what he argues is a “mathematically absurd claim” about black newborns in Jackson’s dissent.

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