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Bad Influences: Weighing Separation of Powers Principles Against Calls for Transparency Following "Lapses" in Judicial Ethics
February 4, 2022
By: Bridget Hoffmann, Vol. 106 Staff Member In his 2021 Year-End Report on the Federal Judiciary, Chief Justice John Roberts emphasized the importance of maintaining...
Biden’s Emergency Rule Raises Fundamental Policy Issues Regarding the Administrative State and Its Expansive Policymaking Role
January 11, 2022
By: Mark Kaske, Volume 106 Staff Member “Stop the spread” has been the rally cry across the world since Covid-19 originated in Wuhan, China in...
Minnesota DNR's Sept. 16, 2021 Line 3 Enforcement Action Demonstrates How Much Groundwater Permitting “Sucks”
December 6, 2021
By: Sonja Smerud, Volume 106 Staff Member Enbridge Energy’s Line 3 Pipeline, a replacement project for the delivery of crude oil from Canada to a...
#FreeBritney: Bringing Attention to a "Toxic" System of Conservatorship
December 3, 2021
By: Zack Hennen, Volume 106 Staff Member After months of legal deliberation, family infighting, and a full-blown pop culture movement, Britney Spears was released from...
Taxing Billionaires and the Conundrum of Constitutional Income
December 1, 2021
By: Sadie Betting, Volume 106 Staff Member In March 2020, the United States had 614 billionaires. [1] By October of this year, it had 745...
Roe v. a Technicality: How Procedural Decisions Will Bring About the End to Constitutionally Protected Abortion Rights
November 29, 2021
By: Leah Reiss, Volume 106 Staff Member For forty-eight years now, the Supreme Court has recognized that the Constitution protects “a woman’s [1] right to...
Roe and Casey Under Attack: Will the Supreme Court Overturn Landmark Abortion Precedent in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization?
November 26, 2021
By: Theresa Green, Volume 106 Staff Member On December 1, 2021, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments for Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization...
Categorically Insufficient: the U.S. Supreme Court Must Find Attempted Hobbs Act Robbery Is Not a "Crime of Violence" Under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A).
November 24, 2021
By: Michael Van Ryn, Volume 106 Staff Member In United States v. Taylor, the U.S. Supreme Court is presented with the question of whether an...
Locked, Loaded, and Concealed—The Supreme Court's First Gun Rights Case in a Decade
November 22, 2021
By: Michael Kinane, Volume 106 Staff Member INTRODUCTION On November 3, 2021, the Supreme Court heard oral argument in New York State Rifle & Pistol...
The Canine Magistrate: the Fourth Amendment Implications of Weak Alerts to Narcotics in Vehicle Searches
November 19, 2021
By: Chase Slasinski, Volume 106 Staff Member The use of dogs in policing is a practice that has existed in the United States for over...