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Media Mentions
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Why Liberals Need to Radically Change the Rules of Our Politics
August 29, 2022
An op-ed co written by Ryan D. Doerfler: When liberals lose in the Supreme Court — as they increasingly have over the past half-century —…
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Why the Mar-a-Lago affidavit could become one of the most scrutinized documents in American politics
August 29, 2022
The FBI search of Donald Trump’s Florida resort and the removal of classified information raise a compelling need for maximum public disclosure given the involvement…
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The Trump FBI search affidavit: Balancing the interests of the press and the government
August 29, 2022
An op-ed co-written by Laurence Tribe: Jan. 6 taught us how fragile our republic is. It survived because a few stalwart Republican officials put country…
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3M Awaits Bankruptcy Ruling That May Sink Litigation Tactic
August 29, 2022
3M Co.’s attempt to block jury trials of more than 230,000 lawsuits accusing it of harming US soldiers faces a key test this week in…
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Prison’s program is an exemplary model of restorative justice
August 29, 2022
A letter written by Adriaan Lanni: I applaud the Globe for highlighting the Transformational Prison Project’s exemplary work (“On the road to redemption, and a…
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Donald Trump invoked the Fifth Amendment more than 400 times in New York’s investigation into his business’s finances. Of course, the defeated former president and…
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Big Law Talent Poachers Wrestle to Keep Star Hires on Board
August 29, 2022
Law firms that poached attorneys from rivals at record levels in the past two years confront a challenge in preventing the high-priced talent from bolting…
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Lindsey Graham’s moment of truth: After being ordered to testify, he faces a stark choice
August 29, 2022
An article co-written by Laurence Tribe: Sen. Lindsey Graham faces his courthouse moment of truth. On Aug. 15, Atlanta federal District Court judge Leigh Martin…
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Constitutional law scholar Laurence Tribe, 80, is a professor emeritus at Harvard University, where he has taught since 1968, counting among his former students Barack…
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Right-wing groups hit Boston Children’s with barrage of threats over trans health program
August 29, 2022
Doctors and other staff who care for transgender children at Boston Children’s Hospital are facing a barrage of threats and harassment that started last week…
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Don’t mess with Barbie
August 29, 2022
Like an over-protective parent, toymaker Mattel Inc has long had a reputation for zealously defending its Barbie doll-related intellectual property. So when Rap Snacks Inc…
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Former Securities and Exchange Commission chairman Jay Clayton isn’t a fan of the new 1% tax on stock buybacks. “It is a tax on shareholders,”…
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Tribe: Merrick Garland has a ‘slam dunk case’ against Trump
August 29, 2022
MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell speaks to Harvard constitutional law Professor Laurence Tribe about new details of the Justice Department investigation into the classified documents that were…
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State Attorneys General Unite Against Robocalls
August 29, 2022
Nothing has been able to kill scam robocalls — not federal regulation, not individual state lawsuits, not private software. Each effort has made a dent,…
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A Closer Look: Studying Outbreaks and Animals
August 16, 2022
Is the United States doing enough to prevent outbreaks from ever starting or spreading? A team of researchers from across the globe are working on…
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Why the U.S. is struggling to modernize the electric grid
August 16, 2022
Blackouts are growing more frequent in the United States. The average American experienced just over eight hours of power outages in 2020, with overall duration…
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Exotic pets first brought monkeypox to the U.S., and 19 years later, we still barely regulate them
August 16, 2022
An op-ed by Ann Linder: Nineteen years ago, a 3-year-old from Wisconsin, Schyan Kautzer, was hospitalized; her small body was covered with a strange rash.
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Constitutional law scholar Laurence Tribe, 80, is a professor emeritus at Harvard University, where he has taught since 1968, counting among his former students Barack…
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Supreme Court hog case could ensnare other state laws
August 16, 2022
A looming Supreme Court challenge to California’s hog confinement standards implicates a wide array of environmental and other state laws, a Harvard Law School program…
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Companies Facing 1st Tax on Stock Buybacks in Biden Bill
August 16, 2022
Democrats have pulled off a quiet first in their just-passed legislation addressing climate change and health care: the creation of a tax on stock buybacks,…
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After the stabbing of author Salman Rushdie during a Friday event in western New York, key questions about the suspect — who was charged with…