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Commentary Crossroads or a Curve: The Death Penalty and the 2016 Election
Crossroads or a Curve: The Death Penalty and the 2016 Election
Jeffrey L. Kirchmeier
December 2, 2016 08:47:58 am

JURIST Guest Columnist Jeffrey L. Kirchmeier of CUNY School of Law discusses the death penalty and the 2016 election...Commentators will be debating the causes and impact of the outcome of the November 8, 2016 US presidential election for a long...

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Commentary Safe Spaces and First Amendment Rights: Do Safe Spaces Belong on College Campuses?
Safe Spaces and First Amendment Rights: Do Safe Spaces Belong on College Campuses?
Fuad Rafidi
December 1, 2016 09:26:05 am

JURIST Guest Columnist Fuad Rafidi of Valparaiso University School of Law, Class of 2018, discusses safe spaces on college campuses... Do safe places belong on college campuses? On November 22, 2016, Yue Zhang wrote a critical piece about colleges not...

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Commentary <u>Lemon&#8217;s</u> Latest Victim: <u>Felix</u> Shows Why <u>Lemon</u> Must Go
Lemon’s Latest Victim: Felix Shows Why Lemon Must Go
Roger Byron
November 30, 2016 01:17:23 pm

JURIST Guest Columnist Roger Byron, Esq. Senior Counsel for First Liberty Institute discusses how Felix v. City of Bloomfield illustrates inherent flaws in the Lemon v. Kurtzman Establishment Clause test ... The late Justice Antonin Scalia once described the infamous...

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Commentary Fatal Attraction&amp;#8212The International Criminal Court and Politics
Fatal Attraction&#8212The International Criminal Court and Politics
David M. Crane
November 30, 2016 09:27:46 am

JURIST Guest Columnist David M. Crane of Syracuse University College of Law discusses the need for the International Criminal Court to utilize politics to ensure its future...Several years ago, I gave a speech where I stated that prosecutor who does...

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Commentary The Iran Sanctions Extension Act: Enforcement Overkill
The Iran Sanctions Extension Act: Enforcement Overkill
Sean Merritt
November 28, 2016 06:52:13 pm

JURIST Guest Columnist Professor John B. Quigley of the Ohio State University Moritz College of Law argues that international changes to approaching and monitoring Iran's nuclear program have made recent congressional action unnecessary... The Iran Sanctions Extension Act was adopted...

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Commentary Fear, Loathing and Jeff Sessions on State-Legal Marijuana
Fear, Loathing and Jeff Sessions on State-Legal Marijuana
Hilary Bricken
November 25, 2016 06:20:57 pm

JURIST Guest Columnist Hilary Bricken, of Canna Law Group, discusses the Trump administration and how it could impact the status of cannabis at the state level...With a recent Gallup poll showing 60 percent of Americans favor cannabis legalization, it...

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Commentary ATM Operators Need Early Injunction Against Unfair Rules
ATM Operators Need Early Injunction Against Unfair Rules
Don Resnikoff
November 25, 2016 02:50:13 pm

JURIST Guest Columnist Don Resnikoff of Counsel to Rubin PLLC discusses the need for injunctive relief in the ATM anti-trust case ... JURIST previously reported that the US Supreme Court published an order stating that it would no longer hear...

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Commentary The Most Significant Gain from Cannabis Legalization: One Lawyer&#8217;s Perspective
The Most Significant Gain from Cannabis Legalization: One Lawyer’s Perspective
Jody Lehrer
November 22, 2016 11:32:23 am

JURIST Guest Columnist Jody H. Lehrer, of Northeastern Institute of Cannabis , discusses the national movement towards the legalization of cannabis...With increasing frequency states are enacting laws, either through legislators or through voter initiatives, that are chipping away at...

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Commentary Criminalizing Visual Poverty&amp;#8212the Effects of Making Homelessness a Crime
Criminalizing Visual Poverty&#8212the Effects of Making Homelessness a Crime
Sara Rankin
November 21, 2016 02:24:38 pm

JURIST Guest Columnist Sara Rankin of Seattle University School of Law discusses the effects of criminalizing homelessness in the US...As a lawyer, I am particularly interested in how we take our impulses and fears and codify them into our laws...

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Commentary Putting the 2016 Capital Punishment Ballot Initiatives in Perspective
Putting the 2016 Capital Punishment Ballot Initiatives in Perspective
John H. Blume
November 17, 2016 01:47:12 pm

JURIST Guest Columnist John H. Blume of Cornell Law School discusses the current state of the death penalty in the United States...On November 8th, voters in three states endorsed "pro-death penalty" measures. In Nebraska, an initiative asking voters to reinstate...

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French June Rebellion ends

A republican uprising known as the June Rebellion was put down by French authorities in Paris on June 6, 1832. The rebels sought the abdication of French King Louis Philippe I, who assumed the throne two years prior following the overthrow of King Charles X. Louis Philippe would go on to rule until 1848 when he was overthrown in the wave of revolutions that took hold across Europe that year. Author Victor Hugo would later dramatize the June Rebellion in his novel Les Miserables Read excerpts of contemporary coverage about the June Rebellion from the Guardian.

Count Camillo di Cavour, the first Prime Minister of Italy, dies

On June 6, 1861, Count Camillo Benso di Cavour died He was the first Prime Minister of a united Italy and the political leader of his nation's unification movement. After Italian unification, Cavour was responsible for the creation of the Italian constitutional monarchy and its founding political documents.

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