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Media Mentions
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Should teens younger than 18 be allowed to vote?
December 14, 2022
The Boston City Council has voted to lower the voting age to 16 for local elections. The measure must go to the Massachusetts state legislature…
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Will Courts Prevent Investors From Holding Managers Accountable?
December 13, 2022
An op-ed written by Noah Feldman: What if corporations could opt out of being sued by their shareholders? That’s the issue facing the US Court…
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‘That’s chaos, it’s anarchy’ Laurence Tribe & Nancy Gertner on 2023 predictions for Trump, SCOTUS
December 13, 2022
Heading into the new year, Donald Trump faces ongoing legal issues and potential new charges stemming from the January 6th insurrection and his alleged attempts…
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Meet Jahi Wise, EPA’s new rainmaker
December 13, 2022
Jahi Wise started at EPA last week with an unusual mandate — deciding who gets to spend $27 billion in federal climate dollars. The money…
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Supreme Contortions
December 12, 2022
A week of high-profile critical developments for Trump, the Supreme Court, the DOJ, and Congress. A phenomenal group of expert commentators—Emily Bazelon, Prof Laurence Tribe,…
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How is the Supreme Court changing American democracy?
December 12, 2022
The Supreme Court considered a case this week that could upend the way America conducts elections. Moore v Harper brings to the national stage a…
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Transgender Americans Feel Under Siege as Political Vitriol Rises
December 12, 2022
Alejandra Caraballo is used to seeing anti-transgender hatred. As an L.G.B.T.Q. rights advocate and a transgender woman, she has received death threats, and her and…
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It’s Time To Indict Donald Trump
December 12, 2022
The long saga of the government’s nearly two-year effort to identify and retrieve classified documents (among other government property) stolen by ex-president Donald Trump on…
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Ashley Nunes: Don’t renew the child tax credit. Reform it.
December 12, 2022
An article by Ashley Nunes: As Christmas approaches, not everyone is celebrating. American families — hit hard by inflation, wage stagnation and layoffs — must…
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Can ChatGPT Make This Podcast?
December 12, 2022
It’s writing podcast scripts, finishing students’ homework and correcting mistakes in computer code: ChatGPT, the A.I. chatbot from OpenAI, is suddenly everywhere. Who should decide…
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Why extremism experts say it’s worth discussing the Colorado shooting suspect’s pronouns
December 12, 2022
Attorneys for the alleged gunman in the deadly shooting at an LGBTQ club in Colorado said in court filings the suspect is nonbinary and uses…
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What the New Trump Contempt Motion Tells Us About the Mar-a-Lago Documents Prosecution
December 12, 2022
An article co-written by Laurence Tribe: The Justice Department’s contempt motion against the Office of Donald Trump—being heard today in Washington, D.C. behind the closed…
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An essay by Jeannie Suk Gersen: When the Supreme Court declared, in 2015, that the Constitution requires all states to license and recognize same-sex marriages,…
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Clarence Thomas violated law ‘in plain view,’ Tribe says
December 9, 2022
With the crisis of confidence in the Supreme Court getting worse, Harvard Law Professor Laurence Tribe joins MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell to explain why Justice Thomas’s…
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Amazon, Ashton Kutcher And America’s Surveillance Of The Sex Trade
December 9, 2022
Missing for over a week and alone, 14-year-old runaway Jessie made the call to her parents from the Red Carpet Inn, a two-story peach and…
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Why the Right Invented a Conservative Right to Post
December 9, 2022
Early december might have marked the first time anyone ever asserted a First Amendment right to see the president’s son’s penis, an argument that the…
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Legal experts were stunned after former President Donald Trump’s lawyers found more documents marked classified in his Florida storage facility months after the Justice Department…
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A Conservative Theory Too Extreme Even for This Supreme Court
December 8, 2022
An op-ed by Noah Feldman: This Supreme Court hasn’t exactly been shy about issuing extremely conservative rulings. Even so, one pending case stands out for…
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“This reporting is stunning”: Experts say newly found secret Trump docs could trigger new FBI search
December 8, 2022
Legal experts were stunned after former President Donald Trump’s lawyers found more documents marked classified in his Florida storage facility months after the Justice Department…
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Crypto creditors anonymous?
December 8, 2022
One of the most annoying things about cryptocurrency is its persistent misrepresentation as an “anonymous” technology. It is very much not that. Cash is anonymous.
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It’s Election Day 2022 in Sheboygan, and voters in this majority blue city once again have no chance of electing a Democrat to legislative office.