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In the case of SJC nominee, questions of recusal are material
February 27, 2024
A letter by Nancy Gertner: In the Feb. 25 editorial, “SJC nominee should offer clear answers on when she’d recuse herself,” the Globe criticizes Appeals…
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Why People Fail to Notice Horrors Around Them
February 26, 2024
An op-ed co-written by Cass Sunstein: The miraculous history of our species is peppered with dark stories of oppression, tyranny, bloody wars, savagery, murder and…
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The Crisis in Teaching Constitutional Law
February 26, 2024
If you attended law school at any time over the past half-century, your course in constitutional law likely followed a well-worn path. First you learned…
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Profiteering Hampers U.S. Grid Expansion
February 26, 2024
An op-ed by Ari Peskoe: The United States is not building enough transmission lines to connect regional power networks. The deficit is driving up electricity…
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‘You can’t love your country if you hate half the people in it’
February 26, 2024
When Maryland Gov. Wes Moore, a Democrat, agreed to film an advertisement for Utah Gov. Spencer Cox’s “Disagree Better” initiative, he knew just who he…
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Supreme Court to Decide How the First Amendment Applies to Social Media
February 26, 2024
The most important First Amendment cases of the internet era, to be heard by the Supreme Court on Monday, may turn on a single question:…
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The large-scale military strikes the United States has directed at the Houthis, an Iran-backed militant group in Yemen that has disrupted shipping in the Red…
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Millions of Fund Investors Are Getting a Voice
February 23, 2024
Index fund investing has swept the world. In December, for the first time, U.S. investors entrusted more money to index funds than actively managed funds,…
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‘This feels like a big wake-up call’: What does Alabama’s frozen embryos ruling mean for IVF in Mass.?
February 23, 2024
The Alabama Supreme Court’s ruling that frozen embryos are children and deserve protection under the law has alarmed experts in Massachusetts, who worry the ruling…
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It’s time to end the barbaric practice of solitary confinement in immigration detention
February 22, 2024
An op-ed by Sabrineh Ardalan, Philip L. Torrey and Arevik Avedian: Across the country, the Biden administration is holding hundreds of immigrants in solitary confinement.
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Carrying a pregnancy to term after denied abortion: Mayron Hollis’ story
February 22, 2024
I. Glenn Cohen talks about the medical ethics questions raised by the Alabama Supreme Court’s ruling that frozen embryos are people. And, American Society of…
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Alito Is Worried Gay Rights Could Upstage Religious Ones
February 22, 2024
An op-ed by Noah Feldman: Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito is still fretting about the consequences of Obergefell v. Hodges, the court’s landmark 2015 decision…
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Use Seized Russian Assets to Honor Navalny and Empower Ukraine | Opinion
February 22, 2024
An op-ed co-written by Laurence Tribe: Alexei Navalny’s horrific murder in a Russian penal camp represents a profound loss for the cause of free speech,…
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Legal questions emerge after Alabama Supreme Court’s ruling that embryos are people
February 22, 2024
Here & Now’s Scott Tong talks with I. Glenn Cohen about the medical ethics questions raised by the Alabama Supreme Court’s ruling that frozen embryos…
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It’s Time to Seize Russia’s Reserves
February 22, 2024
The White House is promising tough new sanctions on Russia after the murder of opposition leader Alexei Navalny, but the test of seriousness will be…
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Alabama Embryo Ruling Gives Boost to Fetal Personhood Movement
February 22, 2024
The Alabama Supreme Court’s ruling recognizing unimplanted human embryos as children underscores the anti-abortion movement’s efforts to build legal support for fetal and embryonic personhood.
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Steven Wise, Champion of Animal Rights, Is Dead at 73
February 22, 2024
Steven M. Wise, a pioneering animal rights lawyer who gave voice to clients unable to testify on their own behalf, demanding the same moral and…
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Embryos Are Now Children in Alabama. Blame the Supreme Court.
February 21, 2024
An op-ed by Noah Feldman: In a stunningly bad decision, the Alabama Supreme Court has held that frozen embryos in a lab count as children for…
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How Biden Can Avenge Navalny’s Death
February 21, 2024
President Biden said last week that he was “looking at a whole number of options” to make good on his 2021 warning to Vladimir Putin…
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Supreme Court will hear challenge to EPA’s ‘good neighbor’ rule that limits pollution
February 21, 2024
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments Wednesday in an important environmental case that centers on the obligation to be a “good neighbor.” Lawyers representing…
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Sky News – Laurence Tribe
February 21, 2024
‘Russian assets should be immediately seized and transferred to Ukraine.’ Professor of Constitutional Law at Harvard Law School Laurence Tribe tells @markaustintv he would give…