The New Republic的动态

Exciting updates to our Chapter 15 collection.

Title VI litigation coming to a number of US universities. #civilrights #highereducation #ivyleague #antisemitism #bloomberg #penn #colleges #compliance Title VI bars all federally funded programs, institutions and activities from intentionally treating individuals worse because of their race, color or national origin. It covers public and private campuses at all educational levels. While Title VI has been around for six decades, Jewish students are using it to sue?New York University, the University of California at Berkeley and?Carnegie Mellon University. Yakoby’s law firm, Kasowitz Benson Torres, expects to file more cases against schools, including?Harvard?and?Columbia. The Yakoby lawsuit seeks to force Penn to enforce its codes of conduct to prevent harassment and a hostile environment for Jewish students. It asks a judge to order Penn to terminate faculty and administrators responsible for the “antisemitic abuse permeating the school” and suspend or expel students engaged in such conduct. It also seeks financial damages.

The Decision in New York is a celebration of the Rule of Law. The 12 Jurors in New York made a devastating decision for Donald Trump as they determined that the former president was guilty on 34 counts of falsifying business records in the first degree. However the real value of this decision is a reflection of the workings of the New York Supreme Court. As a former prosecutor, I have learned not to celebrate verdicts. The role of a prosecutor is to present the facts and the law and to let the judge or jury decide. In this case we should applaud Judge Merchan for trying a fair and judicious case, We should applaud the jury for their clear and well considered analyses leading to a sober decision. The former president has done everything that his legal team could come up with to wreak havoc and chaos on the judicial system. However the Judicial system withstood the assaults, with determination and skill Judge Merchan never took the bait or let the trial devolve into the circus which the defense tried to create. The efforts by the former president are tiresome. However it is now time for him to answer and be held accountable for some of his criminal activity. The Rule of Law is vital to our democracy, it is necessary to maintains our freedoms, liberty and our civil society. The Rule of Law is fundamental to our basic concept of a free and just United States of America. Let us all work to defend American democracy. https://ldad.org/

On May 29, 2024, at 11:28 EST, a New York jury of seven men and five women filed out of a Manhattan courtroom to begin deliberations on the 34 felony counts against Donald Trump for falsifying business records in the first criminal trial of an American president. The implications of this constitutional process for the former president are impossible to ignore. His immediate fate—whether he will be an exonerated defendant or a convicted felon—is in the hands of a jury of his peers. This landmark, five-week trial has generated intense international interest, evoked broad discussion about the Constitution and the rule of law, and provided a refresher course on the historic importance of the right to a jury trial to those who launched the American Revolution and drafted the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights. To our nation's founders, the right to trial by jury was central to democracy and self-government. Read more in the latest "We The People" Article with David Adler.

Pay attention! https://lnkd.in/g_kRcywx This election is the last one to pretend to be decided by votes of the people unless control is taken from the Republican Influenced Corrupt Organizations (RICO) under the coordination of the Federalist Secret Society and Heritage Society This election must focus like a laser beam on reigning in the RICO led Gang of 6 on the Supreme Court and undoing its enabling the Presidency to be the top Criminal of The United States (COTUS). Repeat of Jan 6th as upside down flag day has been boldly called out by the July 1st edict. Boldly is not just a code word. Defeat MAGA or else, and then take back the Court through expansion. Let us then enter back into mutually agreed reform consistent with both historic and modern political values. Or 248 years of experimenting in quasi-democratic government ends by this time next year.

The entire purpose of the best law schools in this country of laws is to teach the principles of fair governance. These principles serve as a guide through novel circumstances and fact patterns. I use this approach in my personal life. Whatever the dilemma is - from house paint color to retirement plan- I return to my principles and the solution becomes clear. The US Constiution is not a recipe book. It is a book of philosophy, there to be interpreted against the principles from which it was unearthed. As such, it doesn’t tell you how to bake an apple pie. It tells you what a pie that’s best for everyone tastes like. The Constitution does not require a trial to determine whether an act of rebellion or insurrection occurred. To use a Supreme Court dictum, we know it when we see it. For example, Jefferson Davis, a former US Senator and president of the Confederacy, was never tried. But no one - even his supporters- would argue that he was not a rebel. The Constitution is meant to be interpreted. The absence of a word, or an explicit instruction, does not constitute the “crisis” that the media so often declares. Principles rule. And the judgement of “reasonable” people, the standard of all western common law for centuries, does know it when it sees it.

Knights-Errant: The Roberts Court and Erroneous Fact-Finding - PDF: https://lnkd.in/gxZeurqT This Article examines the Supreme Court’s recent penchant for factfinding, both in light of traditional views of where fact-finding belongs in the judiciary, and in light of our constitutional separation of powers. Generally, the federal adversarial system leaves fact-finding to trial courts. This Article contends that this assignment provides a separation of powers restraint on judicial activism, and that recent violations of that historic practice allowed extra-record judicial adventuring outside proper constitutional bounds. In Shelby County v. Holder and Citizens United v. FEC, the Court’s fact-finding was not only inappropriate for a reviewing court, but also erroneous—indeed clearly so. This Article shows how events have discredited the fact-finding, and how the Court has refused to reconsider its errors. Recent decisions in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, New York State Rifle & Pistol Ass’n v. Bruen, and Kennedy v. Bremerton School District also stand on dubious factfinding by the Court, and the former two cases invite yet further appellate fact-finding—into “history and tradition.” This Article argues that false fact-finding provided the analytical means to deliver victories for identifiable partisan interests in these cases. These cases, the false fact-finding undergirding them, the persistence of the erroneous facts, and the policy consequences of the uncorrected errors, together create a new predicament requiring attention by academia, lower courts, and the other branches. This Article proposes theories and actions that would defend our government against a Court eager to aggrandize judicial power to political ends. #factfinding #SCOTUS #trialcourts #historyandtradition #partisanship #constitutionalinterpretation #judicialerrors #aggrandizement #judiciary

Undermining Justice with Lies, Deception, and Disinformation The following is a critical thinking analysis of the Steve Bannon and Donald Trump's attacks on the Department of Justice. The brief exposes their rhetoric use of lies, deception, and disinformation to undermine legal actions and manipulate public opinion. Understand the crucial role of the media in fact-checking and providing balanced reporting. The brief examines analysis of cognitive biases, logical fallacies, and the impact of these tactics on our democracy. Recognize the importance of maintaining trust in our justice system and democratic institutions. Read on to see how we can counteract these manipulative strategies and uphold the rule of law. Read the brief #SteveBannon, #DonaldTrump, #DOJ, #lies, #deception, #disinformation, #cognitivebiases, #logicalfallacies, #weaponization, #manipulation, #influenceoperations, #factchecking, #impartialreporting, #mediaethics, #journalisticintegrity, #publicopinion, #fearmongering, #politicalbias, #legalaccountability, #rhetoric, #trustindemocracy, #underminingjustice, #supportermobilization, #emotionallanguage, #historicalcontext, #contextualreporting, #intimidation, #threats, #ruleoflaw, #democraticinstitutions, #publictrust, #criticalmedia, #factbasedreporting, #maga, #violence, #insurrection, #incite, #jan6