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We can do better for American Indian children
December 7, 2022
An article by Elizabeth Bartholet: The Supreme Court heard arguments recently in Brackeen v. Haaland, a case that challenges the 1978 Indian Child Welfare Act.
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Breyer’s legacy: A centrist, pragmatic problem-solver and defender of the court’s reputation
December 7, 2022
In nearly three decades on the Supreme Court, Justice Stephen G. Breyer routinely found himself on the losing side of contentious issues but managed to…
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Harvard lawyer suing Ron DeSantis over Martha’s Vineyard migrants said briefs could also be used in Texas
December 7, 2022
A coalition of immigrants’ rights groups filed a lawsuit against Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and his Department of Transportation secretary in response to their sending…
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They Trusted Their Prenatal Test. They Didn’t Know the Industry Is an Unregulated “Wild West.”
December 7, 2022
Amanda wanted to warn someone. In June 2021, her daughter — the one she and her husband had tried for three years to conceive —…
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For years, Sen. Joe Manchin III (D-W.Va.) has pushed to overhaul the nation’s permitting process for energy projects, including for the transmission lines needed to…
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Renters rising
December 6, 2022
Just to the right of the narrow stairway Frances Amador climbs to her fourth-floor apartment, a freshly painted door leads to the only renovated unit…
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Supreme Court Pits Free Speech Against LGBTQ Rights
December 6, 2022
An op-ed by Noah Feldman: There is no more fundamental question in constitutional law than what happens when equality and liberty come into conflict. Today,…
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With a major renewable energy build-out looming, transmission owners are using FERC proceedings to seek the right to fund interconnection upgrades needed across the United…
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Donald Trump’s suggestion this weekend that the U.S. Constitution should be terminated in response to his baseless claims that the 2020 election was stolen drew…
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In Law Firm Race For Revenue, Top Dogs Stand Alone
December 6, 2022
Inflation, hand-wringing over the economy and even a possible recession will do little to close the widening revenue gap between a handful of legal giants…
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The Supreme Court’s Other Conservative Revolution
December 5, 2022
An op-ed by Noah Feldman: The conservative revolution at the US Supreme Court has two prongs. One grabs headlines as the justices overturn long-established precedent…
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A federal judge is considering a request to unseal sidebar transcripts from the 2018 trial accusing Harvard’s college admissions policies of discriminating against Asian Americans.
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The next frontier in First Amendment law at the Supreme Court involves a trademark dispute over a chew toy for dogs shaped like a liquor…
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An op-ed co-written by Laurence Tribe: This has been a good week for the rule of law, the courts and the Constitution. On Thursday, the…
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Groups sue Florida officials over migrant relocation program
December 5, 2022
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and other officials are being sued in federal court by immigrant rights groups who challenge the constitutionality of the state’s migrant…
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Donald Trump’s suggestion this weekend that the U.S. Constitution should be terminated in response to his baseless claims that the 2020 election was stolen drew…
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Our Opinion: Democracy on trial
December 5, 2022
Oral arguments begin Wednesday in an important case that our state’s Republican-led legislature has dragged all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. We’ll be…
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The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell
December 5, 2022
Laurence Tribe in an MSNBC interview by Lawrence O’Donnell about the Court of Appeals’ crushing slapdown of Judge Cannon’s effort to give special treatment to…
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As utilities spend billions on transmission, support builds for independent monitoring
December 5, 2022
An aging electric grid, fossil fuel power plant retirements and a massive renewable electricity buildout are all contributing to a boom in transmission and distribution…
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EVs are selling like hotcakes. Don’t rejoice just yet.
December 2, 2022
An op-ed by Ashley Nunes: A new age of motoring beckons. In the first nine months of 2022, Americans snapped up nearly 600,000 electric vehicles…
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SPLC, Harvard Law Sue DeSantis Over Migrant Relocation
December 2, 2022
Three immigration rights groups, represented by Southern Poverty Law Center and a Harvard Law School organization, sued Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis in federal court Thursday,…