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Cut-price Magna Carta ‘copy’ now believed genuine
May 16, 2025
A manuscript once considered an unofficial copy of Magna Carta is now believed to be a genuine version and ”one of the world’s most valuable…
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It wasn’t exactly like the big reveal on the Antiques Roadshow. But one day in December 2023, David Carpenter, a professor of medieval history at…
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An op-ed by Noah Feldman: Today’s oral argument before the Supreme Court related to President Donald Trump’s executive order on birthright citizenship focused on whether a…
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‘The Constitution is explicit’: Tribe says Trump’s birthright citizenship ban would create ‘chaos’
May 16, 2025
Harvard Constitutional Law professor Laurence Tribe joins MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell to discuss Donald Trump’s latest case before the Supreme Court over federal judges’ power over…
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For 80 years, Harvard Law School believed the Magna Carta it bought for $27.50 was a reproduction. Now, British researchers think the document is a…
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Harvard Law School bought a copy of Magna Carta for $27. Turns out, it’s actually an original
May 16, 2025
A “copy” of Magna Carta bought decades ago by Harvard Law School for just $27.50 is now understood to be an extremely rare original from…
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A British academic was poring over Harvard Law School’s digitized collection from his home southeast of London on a rainy day in December 2023 when…
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An essay by Jeannie Suk Gersen: My clerkship interview with David Souter was in the winter of 2002. In his chambers, amid piles of hardbound…
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US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is rescinding Biden administration policy efforts on Covid-19 and gender identity bias protection as part of a regulatory…
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Oklahoma could change charter school laws, embrace other forms of school choice | Opinion
May 14, 2025
An op-ed by Brian Broderick JD ’25: The Supreme Court recently heard arguments for Oklahoma’s St. Isidore Catholic Virtual School. If successful, St. Isidore would…
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‘Beacon of freedom’ dims as US initiatives that promote democracy abroad wither under Trump
May 13, 2025
Growing up in the former Soviet Union, Pedro Spivakovsky-Gonzalez’s father and grandparents would listen to Voice of America with their ears pressed to the radio,…
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Following the announcement of a substantial, albeit temporary, reduction in tariffs between the U.S. and China, both nations are touting the agreement as a victory…
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David Souter Set an Example for the Supreme Court
May 12, 2025
An op-ed by Noah Feldman: David Souter, the former US Supreme Court justice who died at 85 on Thursday, was sometimes mistakenly thought to have…
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David Hackett Souter — Supreme Court justice at the center of the preeminent legal disputes of the contemporary period and supreme example of the rustic…
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Deep in the bowels of .gov web addresses sits a site that houses the climate adaptation plans for more than two dozen federal agencies. They…
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A famous sign on the Oval Office desk of President Harry Truman read, “The buck stops here.” But if President Trump were to put one…
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More than 150 former state and federal judges have signed a letter to Pam Bondi, the attorney general, condemning the Trump administration’s escalating battles with…
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Keep it or toss it? Date label confusion causing people to waste ‘perfectly good food,’ expert says
May 7, 2025
Buying groceries takes a big bite — a really big bite — out of a family’s budget today. What’s worse is that Americans throw away…
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Who’s the Greatest Grifter of Them All?
May 7, 2025
On Sept. 9, 2024, the F.B.I.’s criminal investigative division reported that “as the use of cryptocurrency in the global financial system continues to grow, so…
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Activist investors gunning for board seats face an even steeper climb as the leading US business courts embrace a hands-off approach to onerous nomination bylaws…
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The Lead With Jake Tapper
May 6, 2025
Laurence Tribe provides commentary on President Trump claiming to not know if he needs to uphold the Constitution as president, his remarks about due process,…