Tag: law
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Notre Dame law school’s growing influence on the Supreme Court
Annie Ortega, a third-year student who recently took a weeklong class taught by Barrett, praised the “ideologically diverse” school. She is president of the school’s chapter of the Federalist Society but said she has lively conversations with her many liberal friends at the school. “Going to a law school where I was going to hear…
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Georgian parliament speaker signs law curbing LGBT rights
TBILISI, Georgia — Georgian parliamentary speaker Shalva Papuashvili said in a Facebook post on Thursday that he had signed into law a “family values” bill curbing LGBT rights, just weeks before a high-stakes parliamentary election. Lawmakers from the ruling Georgian Dream party last month approved the bill, which bans gender transitions and could outlaw pride…
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Colorado to pay web designer’s legal fees after losing LGBTQ anti-bias law case
The state of Colorado has agreed to pay more than $1.5 million in legal fees to a web designer who won a U.S. Supreme Court ruling last year that found the right to free speech allows some businesses to refuse to provide services for same-sex weddings. Colorado and web designer Lorie Smith’s lawyers at conservative…
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Louisiana’s new abortion pill law may delay lifesaving care for women, doctors say
Starting Tuesday in Louisiana, the two drugs used in medication abortion — mifepristone and misoprostol — will be reclassified as controlled substances in the state, making it a crime punishable by up to five years in prison to possess the drugs without a prescription. The law, the first of its kind in the nation, will…
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Penn Law suspends professor for one year over comments on race
PHILADELPHIA — The University of Pennsylvania law school says it is imposing a one-year suspension at half-pay and other sanctions along with a public reprimand on a tenured professor over her comments about race in recent years. The university said Professor Amy Wax — who has questioned the academic performance of Black students, invited a…
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The politics of tariffs are complicated. A Democrat just introduced a bill to make Trump’s proposals law.
LINCOLNVILLE, Maine — Former President Donald Trump calls himself a “tariff man” and says the taxes on imported goods “are the greatest thing ever invented,” so it’s no surprise Vice President Kamala Harris has attacked the centerpiece of the GOP nominee’s economic agenda as bad policy. What’s more surprising, however, is that one House Democrat…
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Two Hong Kong men jailed for seditious acts under new security law
HONG KONG — A Hong Kong judge on Thursday jailed two men in the Chinese territory’s first sedition cases under a new national security law, one for wearing a shirt with a protest slogan and another for writing similar messages on bus seats. Chief Magistrate Victor So initially sentenced Chu Kai-pong, 27, to 14 months’…
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Trump calls for undoing part of his own tax law, vowing to ‘get SALT back’
WASHINGTON — Donald Trump called for rolling back part of his signature tax law Tuesday, suggesting he would seek to reinstate the state and local tax deduction, commonly known as SALT, that he controversially capped in the 2017 legislation. In a Truth Social post ahead of his trip to New York’s Long Island, the former…