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Trump’s $1.8 Billion Settlement Fund Is a Response to a Lawsuit That Was Unlikely to Succeed, Says Chicago-Kent Law Professor Harold Krent
“The lawsuit was a long shot,” says Harold Krent, professor of law at Chicago-Kent College of Law. “It had very little to go on because the mistake was not made by the IRS, it was made by this independent contractor, and he waited too long to sue. ... The statute of limitations had run. So the question is, is this settlement bogus?”
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SCOTUS Blog
Carolyn Shapiro: Fighting Back After the Gutting of the Voting Rights Act
Current political circumstances are a modern-day analogue to the Framers’ concerns about tyranny. ... New gerrymanders could easily give control of the House of Representatives to Republicans despite a majority of voters preferring Democrats. But there are plenty of other ways that anti-democratic practices in one state can have spillover effects in others and, as we are increasingly seeing, can help erode our national cohesion.
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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.”
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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.”
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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.”
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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.”
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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.”
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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.”
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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.”
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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.”