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... to? Could this happen anywhere else? We debate that now with Kent Scheidegger, legal director for the Criminal Justice Legal Foundation. Robert McCulloch, prosecuting attorney for St. Louis County, Missouri, and president-elect of the National District Attorney's Association. Bryan Stevenson, director of the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery ...
... in numbers, which is that she was showing signs of leftward drift. Then, as you say, she wrote the birthright citizen opinion, which was remarkable for a relatively junior justice to take on. I mean, this is a decision that does some reordering of our legal system. And we can ...
... For a closer look at the overturning of the Chevron precedent, we're joined now by Andrew Mergen. He spent three decades as an attorney for the Department of Justice Environment and Natural Resources Division. He now heads the Emmett Environmental Law and Policy Clinic at Harvard Law School. Thanks ...
... our country. Rob Reiner’s contributions reverberate throughout American culture and society, and he has improved countless lives through his creative work and advocacy fighting for social and economic justice.” —In a statement. Actor Paul Walter Hauser “Grieving the loss of my favorite director of all-time. A Few Good ...
... become bogged down in litigation, regardless of party. “The sheer concentration of activity is unusual," said Willy Jay, a former assistant solicitor general who clerked for late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. “But the idea that basically everything of significance on the administration’s side is immediately challenged by state ...
... issues of social justice, becoming tools for activism and change. Today, Lady Pink remains one of the most influential female artists in the field, and she passes her knowledge, skill and passion on to a new generation teaching mural painting at New York's Frank Sinatra School of the Arts.
... the college of their choice. Affirmative Action existed to support that notion. Legacy admissions exists to undermine it,” he said. Sarah Hinger, senior staff attorney for the ACLU’s Racial Justice Program, said she did not know the specifics of the Harvard program but “as a general matter, legacy admissions ...
... that highlights how little progress the country has made toward closing the gender pay gap. Pay transparency — requiring employers to share pay minimums and maximums for job postings — is considered an effective mechanism to close that wide, persistent gap, and some of the most far-reaching legislation has come in ...
... parents' job to regulate, not the school's job at that -- at that location. Marcia Coyle: The attorney for Mahanoy had tried to reassure the justices that the school district would not be targeting religious and political speech. John Yang: Marcia Coyle is chief Washington correspondent for "The National Law ...
... of our Constitution, as we wrestle with criminal justice reform.” Many Americans will recognize modern-day prison labor as chain gangs deployed from prison facilities for agricultural and infrastructure work. The prevalence of prison labor has been largely accepted as a means for promoting rehabilitation, teaching trade skills and reducing ...
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