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  1. WTTW

    Law Professor Raff Donelson Discusses War Powers Act and Constitutionality as Iran Conflict Nears 60-Day Mark

    “Most presidents have not conceded that it’s constitutional, and there are a number of scholars, including myself, who think that there are some constitutional problems with the War Powers Resolution,” says Raff Donelson, professor of law and philosophy at Chicago-Kent College of Law. "Most presidents, despite those qualms, have attempted to follow the framework that it sets up.”

  2. Politico

    Law Professor Jason R. Bent Weighs in on DOJ’s Argument That Legal Effort to Curb AI Bias Violates 14th Amendment

    “The main concern is not that you’re intentionally discriminating by setting parameters in the algorithm based on the training data,” said Jason R. Bent, law professor at Chicago-Kent College of Law. “It’s that it is going to reproduce, based on the training data, some existing biases or existing disparate outcome.”

  3. Bloomberg Law

    Shadow Docket Likely Plays a Role in Supreme Court Justices’ Public Incivility, Says Law Professor Carolyn Shapiro

    “The liberal justices are clearly unhappy with the way the court is deciding very consequential things, sometimes with no explanation whatsoever, in very rushed ways—and their dissents have indicated as much,” said Carolyn Shapiro, a professor at Chicago-Kent College of Law. “What’s spilling out into public view isn’t superficial. It’s related to the substance of what they’re doing.”

  4. Bloomberg Law

    Law Professor Harold Krent Discusses Recent Leaks of Supreme Court Justices’ Confidential Memos

    “The court never blocked the power plan on the merits, but rather used its power to decide to stop the action before they could even hear the case,” said Harold Krent, professor at Chicago-Kent College of Law. “And so they deployed their power to basically protect individuals in the United States from what they saw as overreaching by the Obama administration. So this is an overtly political move because they didn’t like the power plan.”

  5. Law.com

    Law Professor Carolyn Shapiro Weighs in on Sotomayor’s ‘Hurtful Comments’ About Kavanaugh

    “Whatever tensions are behind the scenes or whatever tensions they’re feeling about the way the law is going, they are letting those become more apparent to the rest of us,” said Carolyn Shapiro, a Chicago-Kent College of Law professor who co-direct’s the school’s Supreme Court institute. “But I also suspect that there are members of the court who don’t like that at all. It’s not a monolith.”

  6. Bloomberg Law

    Constitutional Law Professor Harold Krent Discusses Firing of Pam Bondi as Attorney General

    “Bondi’s reign is probably most notable because of the revenge that Trump overtly tried to take against his enemies via the Department of Justice,” says law professor Harold Krent at Chicago-Kent College of Law. “The irony is, she did his bidding and she tried to politicize, weaponize the Department of Justice … and it didn’t work.”

  7. PolitiFact

    Law Professor James Bent Weighs in on Challenge to NFL’s Rooney Rule

    “Is it another candidate who isn’t considered because a team doesn't have the time because they have to interview a minority candidate?” said Jason Bent, law professor at Chicago-Kent College of Law. “Or is it a team’s first choice for a position who has to wait for them to interview minority candidates? Does that make you an aggrieved person? It’s not clear.”

  8. Times Union

    Judge Was Correct to Overturn Murder Conviction After Black Juror Was Improperly Excluded, Says Law Professor Nancy Marder

    “I think he did the right thing,” said Chicago-Kent College of Law professor and Batson expert Nancy Marder. “That is not the case with most Batson challenges I have seen. Usually, the judge accepts the reason as long as it appears, on the surface, to be race-neutral, but here, the judge didn't do that, and the judge was right not to do that.”

  9. WTTW

    Law Professor Harold Krent Explains Case Before Supreme Court on Late-Arriving Ballots

    “I don’t think this really is a partisan issue. This should be an American issue,” says Harold Krent, professor at Chicago-Kent College of Law. “We want to encourage people to vote, and we don’t want to dampen participation in our republic. My fear is that the Supreme Court will do that.”

  10. Block Club Chicago

    Law Professor Noah Smith-Drelich Discusses Local Authorities’ Ability to Investigate Last Year’s Fatal Shooting by ICE

    Noah Smith-Drelich, a law professor at the Chicago-Kent College of Law, said accountability is important because it “shapes how people behave.” Smith-Drelich said “the atmosphere that exists right now, that federal officials will face little to no repercussions,” is likely contributing to “some of the violence that we’re seeing” being perpetrated by federal agents.