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The morning read for Thursday, September 21

SCOTUSBlog

Here’s the Thursday morning read: Supreme Court can let West Point keep affirmative action (Noah Feldman, Washington Post) I teach constitutional law. Supreme Court arguments have gotten way too long.

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A president and a justice: The shaping of securities law at the Supreme Court

SCOTUSBlog

As they show, Roosevelt’s “strategic skill as judge picker” resulted in a group of appointees – larger than any other president since George Washington – who uniformly “accepted Roosevelt’s new role for government in the nation’s economy.” The court’s securities law docket ballooned during Powell’s tenure – from approximately 1.5

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Police Suggest Possible Charges for Those Who Filmed Rape on Train

JonathanTurley

Generally there is no duty to rescue or to call police under the common law. For example, Washington state allows for the charging of a misdemeanor. The law covers violent crimes, sexual assault, and assault of a child. Indeed, I know of no law requiring an intervention in a violent crime scene anywhere in the country.

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Morrison: Time to Give DC Residents A Vote in Congress

JonathanTurley

I have repeatedly testified and written on the constitutional barriers to such a vote absent statehood. See Jonathan Turley, Too Clever By Half: The Partial Representation of the District of Columbia in the House of Representatives , 76 George Washington University Law Review 305 -374 (2008). I was delighted when he accepted.

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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. from George Washington University, two degrees from Georgia State University, and her B.A.

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In Re Peanut: New York Family Moves to Sue State Over the Killing of Beloved Squirrel

JonathanTurley

Now the family is lawyering up. Washington Post columnist and MSNBC contributor Jen Rubin even posted that “The Maga squirrel deserved to die.” 30 and seized both Peanut and a raccoon pet named Fred. They proceeded to euthanize both animals. Some defended the action.

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Take Two Puberty Blockers and Call Me in the Morning? Justice Sotomayor Under Fire For Aspirin Analogy in Oral Argument

JonathanTurley

That position was denounced by the Washington Post as a “ debunked” coronavirus “conspiracy theory.” Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro professor of public interest law at George Washington University and the author of “ The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage.”

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