Major Supreme Court decisions and reversals last term are leaving some people, including this scholar on constitutional politics, wondering – what’s going on with the court?
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A Supreme Court scholar untangles the ideas that undergird the historic ruling overturning the Constitutional right to an abortion.
The gun rights decision from the conservative majority on the Supreme Court signals a fundamental change in how the court reads the Constitution.
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Si el Tribunal Supremo de los Estados Unidos anula las sentencias históricas que establecen el derecho constitucional al aborto, la lucha legal se trasladará a los tribunales estatales.
If the Supreme Court guts landmark rulings that established a constitutional right to abortion, the legal struggle will shift to statehouses and state courtrooms.
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Postdoctoral Fellow in Philosophy, UMass Boston
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Assistant Professor of Medicine, UMass Chan Medical School
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Associate Professor of Political Science, UMass Lowell
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Doctoral Candidate, UMass Boston
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Professor of Music, UMass Lowell
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Associate Professor of Public Health, UMass Lowell
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Associate Professor of Political Science, UMass Lowell
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Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UMass Lowell
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Professor of Climate Science, UMass Lowell
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Professor of Political Science, UMass Lowell
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Assistant Professor of Molecular Medicine, UMass Chan Medical School
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Director, Center for Terrorism and Security Studies; Assistant Professor of Criminology and Justice Studies, UMass Lowell
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Senior Fellow, McCormack Graduate School, UMass Boston
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Professor of Philosophy and Director, Applied Ethics Center, UMass Boston
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Dermatology Resident, UMass Chan Medical School
