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53 posts tagged "Supreme Court"

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Panelists advocate for ‘culture of life’ in wake of Dobbs decision

Liam Kelly | Friday, January 27, 2023

Participants in the panel “A Culture of Life in Post-Dobbs America” advocated against abortion and for a pro-life movement that places equal emphasis on the life of the mother and child Wednesday afternoon. The panel, which was hosted by the Notre Dame Office of Life and Human Dignity and the Notre Dame Right to Life

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The midterm election: Voters turn against extremism 

Notre Dame Write to Vote | Friday, November 18, 2022

The midterm election occurred on November 8, 2022 with surprising outcomes. A midterm is supposed to be the time that the opposing party can make up ground for the next Presidential election, in this case a “Red Wave”, but that is not what happened.  Voters rejected antidemocratic and autocratic candidates this election by denouncing many

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University files brief defending affirmative action in Supreme Court cases

Isa Sheikh | Tuesday, November 8, 2022

Last week, the Supreme Court heard two concurrent cases on the state of affirmative action in college admissions, Students for Fair Admissions v. University of North Carolina and Students for Fair Admissions v. President and Fellows of Harvard College. The petitioner in both cases — Students for Fair Admissions, a nonprofit that has taken issue

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Be Not Afraid: You Are Not Alone

lettertotheeditor | Friday, September 23, 2022

“Do not fear, for I am with you, be not afraid, for I am your God.” (Isaiah 41:10) These words echo in the hearts of many of us in the Notre Dame family. The past few years have been strenuous, to say the least, both for our school and our country. We students have never

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Partisanship on the Supreme Court in a post-Breyer era

Blake Ziegler | Thursday, February 17, 2022

Last month, Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer announced his retirement after 27 years of service on the Court. Progressive groups had been pressuring Breyer to retire over the last few years, arguing that a more progressive voice should hold his seat. Although Breyer had previously resisted their pleas, now that his departure is official, these

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‘Law is king’: Amy Coney Barrett discusses constitutional interpretation, life on Supreme Court in return to Notre Dame

Ryan Peters | Tuesday, February 15, 2022

Twenty-five years ago, Amy Coney Barrett helped lay the groundwork for the Notre Dame Law Review’s Federal Courts issue as executive editor. On Monday, Barrett returned to Notre Dame to speak at the Law Review’s Federal Courts Symposium, though this time as a U.S. Supreme Court justice. During her keynote address for the symposium, Barrett

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Amy Coney Barrett to deliver keynote at Notre Dame Law Review symposium

Observer Staff Report | Tuesday, January 25, 2022

U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett will return to Notre Dame to deliver the keynote address at the Notre Dame Law Review’s 2022 Federal Courts Symposium on Feb. 14, according to a Monday University press release. The lecture will be held in the McCartan Courtroom at the Law School at 12:30 p.m. Only

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Justice Alito defends Supreme Court’s emergency docket, ruling on Texas abortion ban in speech at law school

Ryan Peters | Friday, October 1, 2021

Associate justice Samuel Alito defended the recent use of the U.S. Supreme Court’s emergency docket in a speech in the McCartan Courtroom at the Notre Dame Law School on Thursday afternoon. The emergency docket — sometimes referred to as the “shadow docket” — is a break from typical court procedure on merits cases that allows

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Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas speaks of race, American society at Notre Dame

Helina Kassa | Monday, September 20, 2021

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas spoke at the Debartolo Performing Arts Center Thursday for the 2021 Tocqueville Lecture Series. Currently, Thomas is the Senior Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. Thomas spoke about growing up in Georgia, his interpretation of race theory and gave advice to students interested in law. He described his childhood in

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The case against Amy Coney Barrett

Letter to the Editor | Wednesday, November 4, 2020

Justice Barrett, You should be ashamed to bear a title so at odds with the manner in which it was acquired. Your appointment to the Supreme Court was an injustice, and not merely an ethical one or by some matter of opinion, but by the plain and public facts of its circumstances. Reprehensible as the

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