When Students for Fair Admissions filed lawsuits on the same day in 2014 challenging the undergraduate affirmative action admissions policies of Harvard College and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Brenda Shum and I committed to the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law playing as large role as possible in defending affirmative […]
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And if so, what does that mean? Before I get started, some words of thanks to subscribers/readers of Justice Blog. Justice Blog is part of my late middle career change. Prior to two weeks ago, pretty much everything I wrote professionally for thirty years was for a client or my organization. Even when my writing
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Conservative textualist justices put states’ rights ahead of textualism Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization is one of the most impactful Supreme Court decisions in decades. I struggle to find the words that adequately express the magnitude of the Court overruling its 1973 decision in Roe v. Wade and holding that the Constitution does not
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