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4 Jun 2024, 8:26 am by Lawrence Solum
President Thomas Jefferson introduced the wall of separation metaphor in a 1802 letter to the Danbury Baptist Association. [read post]
19 May 2024, 12:40 pm by Dennis Crouch
As Thomas Jefferson famously put it, part of the ‘peculiar character’ of an idea is that ‘no one possesses the less, because every other possesses the whole of it. [read post]
7 May 2024, 9:31 am by Daniel M. Kowalski
Born on American soil, Thomas Jefferson did not have to try to persuade USCIS that he qualified for an extraordinary ability visa. [read post]
25 Apr 2024, 9:01 pm by Austin Sarat
” Conservatives, Time notes, once looked to universities to “reproduce the middle and upper echelons of Christian society in the United States—something classical liberals from Thomas Jefferson to today’s postliberal academics on the right … have historically appreciated and felt worth conserving. [read post]
27 Mar 2024, 3:39 pm by Guest Author
In 1816, Thomas Jefferson called on Americans to “crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength, and bid defiance to the laws of their country. [read post]
3 Mar 2024, 9:15 am by Randall Rader
Chakrabarty, 447 U.S. 303 (1980) — the case most famous for the observation that Thomas Jefferson’s statutory language from the 1793 Act (still in place today) covers “anything under the sun made by man. [read post]
3 Mar 2024, 9:15 am by Randall Rader
Chakrabarty, 447 U.S. 303 (1980) — the case most famous for the observation that Thomas Jefferson’s statutory language from the 1793 Act (still in place today) covers “anything under the sun made by man. [read post]
21 Feb 2024, 3:44 am by SHG
The case involved a change in the admissions policy of Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Alexandria, Virginia explicitly designed to reduce the number of  Asian students admitted by competitive exam in order to create a more diverse student body. [read post]
20 Feb 2024, 7:48 am by Amy Howe
” The school at the center of the dispute is Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, a northern Virginia school currently ranked fifth in the U.S. [read post]
16 Feb 2024, 11:27 am by John Elwood
Fairfax County School Board, 23-170Issue: Whether the Fairfax County School Board violated the 14th Amendment’s equal protection clause when it overhauled the admissions criteria at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology. [read post]