Showing posts with label Constitutional law. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Constitutional law. Show all posts
Tuesday, December 10, 2024

77 Nobel Laureates Oppose RFKJr's Nomination to Head DHHS

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For the reportedly first time ever, 77 Nobel Prize Laureates have written a letter  (also: here ) to the members of the U.S. Senate in whic...
Monday, October 21, 2024

Texas AG Sues Pediatrician for Providing Gender-Affirming Treatment

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Last week Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued Dr. May Lau, a Dallas pediatrician and assistant professor at UT-Southwestern Medical Schoo...
Sunday, June 18, 2023

2nd Amendment thoughts -- The Constitution is not a suicide pact (or is it?)

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Some random thoughts on Father's Day about gun violence in the United States.   According to the authoritative Gun Violence Archive webs...
Sunday, July 17, 2022

RBG on the Overturning of Roe v. Wade

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This was posted recently by a wonderful German attorney and former Bioethics student of mine, Christine Gärtner. It appears to be part of an...
Friday, June 24, 2022

Editors of New England Journal of Medicine Condemn SCOTUS's Decision to Overrule Roe

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The NEJM editorial summarizes the board's reasoning this way: By abolishing longstanding legal protections, the U.S. Supreme Court’s rev...
Monday, January 31, 2022

Excellent analysis of SB 8 online at JAMA

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The litigation history of Texas's abortion statute ( SB 8 ) is a sorry tangle of "hot potato" from federal courts to state sup...
Monday, November 01, 2021

Vaccines and Religious Exemptions

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Prof. Wendy Parmet had an excellent guest column in the NY Times on 10/31 concerning religious exemptions from vaccination mandates during ...
Monday, July 05, 2021

Happy Independence Day (almost)

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Today (July 5th) is the day of the federal holiday celebrating the Second Continental Congress 's adoption of the text of the Declarati...
Tuesday, November 10, 2020

Early Indications Are Leaning Toward a Favorable SCOTUS Decision for the ACA

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One thing I learned as a Constitutional Law prof many years ago is to not give full faith and credit to the comments and questions of Justic...
Monday, October 12, 2020

Questions for Judge Amy Coney Barrett

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Over at The Commonwealth Fund , health-law prof and ACA expert extraordinaire  Tim Jost properly focuses not  on whether CJ Roberts got it r...
Tuesday, July 21, 2020

"Constitutional Norms for Pandemic Policy"

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Here's a précis of an important paper by three professors at the University of Arizona College of Law (Toni Massaro, Justin R. Pidot, a...