Thursday, August 2, 2018

To be or not to be [brilliant]

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Judge Kavanaugh is in line to replace Justice Kennedy on the US Supreme Court. The nomination dance is about to begin in full force. Cri...
Tuesday, June 19, 2018

World Cup refereeing as constitutional interpretation

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The World Cup is underway in Russia (smh). For some reason, not a game goes by when I am not reminded of our very own US Supreme Court and h...
Monday, June 18, 2018

Initial thoughts on Gill v. Whitford, the Wisconsin Gerrymandering Case

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The US Supreme published its long-awaited decision in the Wisconsin gerrymandering case, Gill v. Whitford .  Gill could have been a landma...
Wednesday, February 8, 2017

Betsy DeVos and the Fight of our Lives

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“The greatest success of the Freedmen’s Bureau,” wrote W. E. B. Du Bois in 1901 , “lay in the planting of the free school among Negroes, an...
Friday, February 3, 2017

On the Constitutionality of Trump’s Immigration and Refugee Ban

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On January 27th, President Trump signed an executive order entitled “Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United Sta...
Thursday, January 19, 2017

Obama frees Oscar López Rivera

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Early this week, President Obama commuted the sentence of Oscar López Rivera, a Puerto Rican activist serving a 70-year sentence for a var...
Wednesday, January 18, 2017

Three Lessons of "Hidden Figures"

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I just saw a film that sent electric shocks through my body from beginning to end.  The film was "Hidden Figures."  The film tell...