Textualism, the approach espoused by Barrett and Justice Antonin Scalia, is a power grab for judges. It ignores congressional intent and allows unelected judges to rewrite legislation.Read Full Article »...
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Austin, Texas Before she joined 100 fellow law students at the Blackstone Legal Fellowship, Leah Boyd, now a practicing attorney in Amarillo, Texas, felt discouraged and hopeless in her first year of law school.These were the people who were going to be shaping the laws and the culture in the United States, she said in…...
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The UK’s mass collection and analysis of the population’s telephone, email and web browsing data has been called into question by Europe’s top court. The European Court of Justice (ECJ) today ruled that collection of communications traffic data from telecoms and internet companies was a “particularly serious” interference of privacy rights under European law. The…...
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The House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday laid out Democrats' vision of a U.S. antitrust policy built to rein in Google, Apple, Amazon and Facebook and other giant tech firms.Why it matters: The long-awaited staff report on antitrust and Big Tech, which sprawls over 450 pages, outlines legislative and enforcement fixes that Democrats could enact should…...
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People wait at the Thai consulate in Hong Kong in Central on Tuesday. Photo: Sam TsangThe woman was one of 10 Thai nationals thought to have entered the city on tourist visas earlier this year The woman, however, has denied working as a bar girl, telling police she just visited the pub to hang out…...
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Austin, Texas Before she joined 100 fellow law students at the Blackstone Legal Fellowship, Leah Boyd, now a practicing attorney in Amarillo, Texas, felt discouraged and hopeless in her first year of law school.These were the people who were going to be shaping the laws and the culture in the United States, she said in…...
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The UK’s mass collection and analysis of the population’s telephone, email and web browsing data has been called into question by Europe’s top court. The European Court of Justice (ECJ) today ruled that collection of communications traffic data from telecoms and internet companies was a “particularly serious” interference of privacy rights under European law. The…...
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The House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday laid out Democrats' vision of a U.S. antitrust policy built to rein in Google, Apple, Amazon and Facebook and other giant tech firms.Why it matters: The long-awaited staff report on antitrust and Big Tech, which sprawls over 450 pages, outlines legislative and enforcement fixes that Democrats could enact should…...
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People wait at the Thai consulate in Hong Kong in Central on Tuesday. Photo: Sam TsangThe woman was one of 10 Thai nationals thought to have entered the city on tourist visas earlier this year The woman, however, has denied working as a bar girl, telling police she just visited the pub to hang out…...
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Conservative Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, joined by fellow conservative Justice Samuel Alito, argued in a Monday statement that the landmark 2015 ruling legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide was improperly decided and suggested the court should "fix" the decision.The statement, written by Thomas and joined by Alito, was attached to a decision from the top court…...
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