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24 Jun 2022, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
  To a political scientist, one way is by viewing it as a power play by the rabbinate, an attempt many centuries before the United States Supreme Court’s decision in Cooper v Aaron to engage in a performative utterance establishing themselves as the “ultimate interpreters” of the document in question, whether the Torah or the Constitution. [read post]
14 Jun 2022, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
  But the overwhelming number of American state constitutions has rejected any such understanding of “the executive branch,” none more so than my home state of Texas, in which the governor appoints only the Secretary of State even as “we the people” cast separate ballots for, among many other offices, Lieutenant Governor, Attorney General, Land Commissioner, and members of the State Board of Education. [read post]
20 May 2022, 5:58 am by Nicholas Espíritu
Board of Education, held that the Constitution’s Equal Protection Clause prohibits racial segregation in public schools. [read post]
14 May 2022, 12:29 pm by jonathanturley
If that view had prevailed in the past, Brown versus Board of Education would have upheld the racist precepts of “separate but equal” in Plessy v. [read post]
12 May 2022, 12:45 pm by The Petrie-Flom Center Staff
  Today, the maternal mortality rate for Native women is 1.2 times the rate for non-Hispanic white women. [read post]
13 Apr 2022, 12:43 pm by Ronald Collins
At the same time, though, it should be noted that Harlan sharply dissented when the Supreme Court refused to grant civil rights protections to Chinese victims of white vigilantes in California. [read post]