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government can punish lawyers and law firms who represent certain clients or punish judges who rule certain ways. We cannot accept government actions that seek to twist the scales of justice in this manner. We reject the notion that the U.S. We reject efforts to undermine the courts and the profession. Words and actions matter.
The most viral moment comes from a back and forth about DEI and if government agencies receive tax cuts for hiring people of color (they don’t): Sam Seder’s critical thinking chops are presumably heterogeneous, but some of the honing may have come from his time at Boston University School of Law. Go Terriers!
government, according to the April 16 opinion by the Appellate Divisions Second Judicial Department of the New York Supreme Court. Higgenbotham pleaded guilty to a count of making false statements to a bank. Maybe he can join a Family Business ?
While the word choice here was “determining” and “predicting,” the real concern is seeing how long it takes for the government to punish “acknowledging the mention of race” or some other protected characteristic by proxy.
The Court reasoned that the government may have in interest in having people in positions of authority that represent the demographics of the troops that they lead. Chris Williams became a socialmediamanager and assistant editor for Above the Law in June 2021.
Julianne Moores Freckleface Strawberry And JD Vances Hillbilly Elegy Among Cooks Caught In Defense Department Review [Pen.org] Chris Williams became a socialmediamanager and assistant editor for Above the Law in June 2021. God help us all.
Before Bruen , we understood there were some arms that the government can regulate — no civilian rocket launchers. After Bruen , a regulating government has to resort to what is effectively mereology. Chris Williams became a socialmediamanager and assistant editor for Above the Law in June 2021.
” We will see varied approaches to the government’s DEI ban over time. Now that is a photo-finish deadline — it’s the classy way of saying “get this diversity s**t wrapped up before Black History Month ends.”
Part of the statement written by Jeff Neal — the school’s spokesperson — took issue with the “needlessly divisive referendum,” saying that it ran against the student government’s stated objective of “fostering community.”
… Defiance of court orders by our government is incompatible with our constitutional democracy. Here’s an excerpt of their statement : We are very concerned by recent statements by elected officials and administration representatives that put into question courts authority to review the legality of executive action.
government, threw his support behind a bill that would consolidate antitrust enforcement at the U.S. Granted he doesn’t need to be the mastermind behind the 4-D chess; if the guy could afford to buy Twitter, he could afford to get a Robert Green type to advise him on how to break the government for profit.
Judge Orders LSU To Reinstate Law Professor Sidelined For Political Comments [Lailluminator] Chris Williams became a socialmediamanager and assistant editor for Above the Law in June 2021. While it did, he thankfully has a judge with common sense on his side.
Not sure how many revisions are in the queue, but I’m willing to bet that the final standard for law schools will amount to “Hey man, do whatever it takes to maintain school eligibility for government funding” at best. Chris Williams became a socialmediamanager and assistant editor for Above the Law in June 2021.
Over 200 Venezuelan nationals were deported for their alleged ties to the criminal gang Tren De Aragua, but the government never met the burden of proving that they were, you know, members of or affiliated with the gang. Prior to joining the staff, he moonlighted as a minor Memelord in the Facebook group Law School Memes for Edgy T14s.
An open letter by Lawyers For Good Government speaking out against Executive abuses was signed by over 2,100 attorneys. lawyers, our oath is not just a formality; it is a binding commitment to uphold the Constitution on which our entire system of government is based.
Chris Williams became a socialmediamanager and assistant editor for Above the Law in June 2021. For everyone in New Jersey’s sake, let’s hope that Habba took Elizabeth de la Vega’s advice and brushed up on Con Law before she starts meddling with her shiny new job responsibilities.
Laura Loomer channeled her inner Musk and is trying to get Davis Wright Tremaine on Trump’s shitlist: President Trump deserves to be applauded for his actions against law firms that participate in weaponization of government.
Grad students are getting abducted and shipped to Louisiana over writing op-eds critical of the government and arrested by ICE over leading protests on private campuses. And the backlash isn’t just hitting professors. This lecture has less to do with promoting diversity and more with platforming the architects of its destruction.
From CNN : One of the things thats troubling so many right now is many of the standards that are being changed were norms that governed officials into what was right and wrong, Sotomayor told an audience at Georgetown University. Once norms are broken then youre shaking some of the foundation of the rule of law, she added.
Attorney General Pam Bondi called for the American Bar Association to immediately repeal its law school diversity rule and scrap a planned revision of that standard in a letter to the ABA posted to a socialmedia site on Wednesday by a U.S. Justice Department official. law schoolsa position it has held since 1952can be revoked.
The Crimson has coverage: The Harvard Law School Student Government has scheduled a student-wide vote in March on a referendum to divest from companies involved in Israels war in Gaza. HLS’s current student body is pushing to get the school to divest from companies.
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Free expression in the arts is openly attacked, and governments often refuse to fund the arts. For now let’s focus on the 11th, disdain for intellectuals and the arts: Fascist nations tend to promote and tolerate open hostility to higher education, and academia. This has been happening in real time for years now.
And government employees aren’t the only ones facing this purge; bar associations are being investigated for their DEI involvement. Chris Williams became a socialmediamanager and assistant editor for Above the Law in June 2021. Had a hand in the Trump investigations?
The separation of church and state is usually invoked to argue against the state being turned into a religious outpost, but its reversal should also hold true — the government shouldn’t be able to target places of religious worship to harvest and imprison or deport the undocumented, right?
These precedents establish that the First Amendment prohibits government officials from relying on the threat of invoking legal sanctions and other means of coercion. In inflicting this retribution, the Order contradicts centuries of precedent safeguarding free speech, the right of association, and the right to petition. Natl Rifle Assn v.
It seems couched in the assumptions that people are willing to advocate for the rule of law and that the government will heed their petitions. Chris Williams became a socialmediamanager and assistant editor for Above the Law in June 2021.
In the words of the preamble to the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct, An independent legal profession is an important force in preserving government under law, for abuse of legal authority is more readily challenged by a profession whose members are not dependent on government for the right to practice.
From the ABA : The American Bar Association condemns recent remarks of high-ranking officials of the administration that appear to question the legitimacy of judicial review and demand impeachment of a judge merely because the court did not agree with the governments position.
There might be some debate over if the right “types” of Christian are filling the ranks, be they Mormon or Catholic, but unless there’s some secret Zoroastrian front calling all of the shots, whatever anti-Christian sentiment happening in the government is likely coming from other Christians squabbling over doctrinal differences.
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