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A retired federal judge sheds light on what’s going on in Judge Lewis Kaplan’s courtroom during the latest trial involving former President Donald Trump.
Trump’s lawsuit against the FBI has been criticized as baseless. But it spotlights a loophole in federal law that doesn’t protect people’s rights when they are subjected to a search warrant.
A recent federal court ruling appeared to expand Second Amendment rights to private citizen militias, which a historian of early America explains is not what the founders intended.
Students of color are largely missing out on paid internships working for lawmakers on Capitol Hill, new research has found.
If upheld, a federal court ruling would solidify birthright citizenship as the law of the land, and overturn more than a century of federal refusal to grant American Samoans citizenship status.
Even if other parts of the federal government shut down, Congress could – and would have to – keep working. A legal scholar explains why and how that is possible.
Many were confident the US Constitution was robust enough to check Donald Trump’s worst excesses, but the real push back has come from elsewhere.
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President, Dickinson College
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Professor of law and ethics, Georgia State University
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Professor of History, University of New Hampshire
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Professor of Political Science and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, University at Albany, State University of New York
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Lecturer in Law, University of Sheffield
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Assistant Professor of African American and African Studies, Rutgers University - Newark
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