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  1. CBS2 Chicago

    Law Professor Carolyn Shapiro Looks at Discrimination Investigation Into Chicago City Hiring Practices

    "It's an enormous leap to say that because Brandon Johnson's top deputies and policymaking positions are African American, that the city is discriminating on the basis of race in its hiring of ordinary, non-policy making employees," said Carolyn Shapiro, professor at the Chicago-Kent College of Law.

  2. Rolling Stone

    Chicago-Kent Professor Christopher Schmidt Examines What’s in Birthright Citizenship Case at Supreme Court

    “They are arguing that the categories of people that they are attempting to exclude are not subject to jurisdiction,” says Christopher W. Schmidt, law professor and co-director of the Institute on the Supreme Court of the United States at Chicago Kent College of Law. “Their argument being that if you’re not legally in the country, [or] temporarily, you’re not, in some sense, subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. Now, even as I talk through that, it doesn’t seem to really resonate in any meaningful way when people think about why you’re subject to jurisdiction.”

  3. Chicago Sun-Times

    Chicago-Kent Professor Douglas Godfrey Previews Sentencing Hearing in Highland Park Shooting

    “A curious part of sentencing is that no one will get the answer to the question we all have asked: Why did he do it?” said Doug Godfrey, a professor of legal writing and research at Chicago-Kent College of Law. “He won’t say and I doubt he will take responsibility or apologize. So, as to the fundamental question, we will not know.”

  4. WGN-TV

    Chicago-Kent Professor Breaks Down Judge’s Finding of Probable Cause That Trump Violated Order by Sending Venezuelans to El Salvador

    “The judge said that there’s probable cause to conclude that the Trump administration willfully violated his order when they sent these Venezuelans to El Salvador, took them off the planes after they landed in El Salvador, and turned them over to Salvadoran custody,” said Carolyn Shapiro, professor at Chicago-Kent College of Law. “He had made it very clear in his order that the administration was not to do that.”

  5. WTTW

    Trump’s Executive Orders Targeting Law Firms Tee Up Potential Constitutional Clash, Says Professor Harold Krent

    “We have never seen executive orders targeting law firms before. It’s totally unprecedented,” said Harold Krent, constitutional law specialist and professor of law at Chicago-Kent College of Law. “It seems to me clearly unconstitutional.”

  6. Bloomberg Law

    Chicago-Kent Professor Harold Krent Discusses the First SCOTUS Victory for President Trump This Term

    “The Education Department had decided that for whatever reason, too many teacher training grants had been awarded and therefore decided to claw them back,” said Harold Krent, professor at Chicago-Kent College of Law. “They clawed them back on the grounds that the grants might have in some ways contributed to illegal DEI initiatives, although that’s unclear, and they used that reason for all of them en masse.”

  7. WTTW

    Chicago-Kent Law Professor Harold Krent Discusses Biden’s Proposed Ethics Reforms for Supreme Court

    “There is at the minimum an appearance of a conflict of interest,” said Chicago-Kent College of Law Professor Harold Krent, “and that’s something that should be avoided by the court. It wasn’t. And so if the justices are going to thumb their nose at this kind of written ethics rule, then maybe Congress has to do something more stringent.”

  8. Axios

    Supreme Court’s Jarkesy Decision Strikes Serious Blow to the Administrative State, Says Chicago-Kent Assistant Professor James Tierney

    The SEC had already taken the hint from a 2018 case that the Supreme Court wasn't thrilled with in-house judges and cases and brought its most serious types of fraud cases to the courts, says James Tierney, assistant professor at Chicago-Kent College of Law and a former staff attorney for the agency. “The SEC doesn't have infinite resources, and so if the cost of settlement goes up, it means they're going to have fewer resources to bring enforcement actions,” Tierney says.

  9. ABC7 Chicago

    Law Professor Richard Kling Breaks Down Ex-Alderman Burke's Sentence, Possible Implications for Other Politicians

    “I think everybody knows intellectually, you have to decide not to do it,” said Chicago-Kent Professor Richard Kling. “You realize if you get caught, you’re going to get in trouble. You see that with governor after governor and other politicians. The bottom line is they know if they get caught they’re in trouble, but like many other people, their thought is, I’m not going to get caught,”

  10. Business Insider

    Thomas' Dissent in Gun Case Highlights Failings of Originalism, Says Chicago-Kent Professor Carolyn Shapiro

    “This is a court that claims to be an originalist court and, if nothing else, these opinions establish that originalism is not a straightforward approach and does not lead to greater certainty, despite the claims that originalists make,” said Carolyn Shapiro, the founder of Chicago-Kent College of Law's Institute on the Supreme Court of the United States. Originalism “can lead to different results depending on who is doing the analysis," she said, continuing: “It just simply does not provide the certainty that originalists claim.”