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US dispatch: ‘independent state legislature’ theory raised by Moore v. Harper threatens US election administration

JURIST

Marisa Wright is a US National Correspondent for JURIST, and a 2L at Harvard Law School. . It comes from the fringe of the conservative legal movement and has been rejected by the Court several times in the past. As far back as 1916, in Davis v. Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission (2015).

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Conflict of Laws and Diversity of Opinions—A View of The Nigerian Jurisdiction

Conflict of Laws

Cosmas Emeziem, JSD Cornell University, Drinan Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor of Law, Boston College Law School, Newton, MA. The Supreme Court of Nigeria and the Judicature The Nigerian Supreme Court is necessary for the legal system’s stability, coherence, and sustainable evolution. [2] ©Author 2024.

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‘Outrageous Outcomes’: Plea Bargaining and the Justice System

The Crime Report

TCR: The first part of your book focuses on the roots of the current legal system in English Common. The whole point of this practice was to improve social ties between the lower classes and the ruling classes. Plea bargaining coincided with overt classism in the legal system. DC: The law exists to protect capital.

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Guest Commentary: Dobbs v. Jackson and Juliana v. United States: “Innumerable Human Lives”

ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

Since about the time these lawyers were born, the days were waning when the Constitution was only for men; we attended law school when, for the first time in history, female students began to equal the number of male students. And no, Justice Kavanaugh, the Constitution is not “neutral” about women’s rights. The boat is sinking.

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Roe Redux: Is The Viability Test Still Viable as a Constitutional Doctrine?

JonathanTurley

Despite annual columns questioning such apocalyptic predictions, which often seemed more political than legal, the granting of Dobbs led me to write my first “this could be it” column. Indeed, the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was a critic of Roe , seeing it as too sweeping in supplanting state laws.