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UrduSpeaking on behalf of the American Thoracic Society, ATS President Gregory Downey, MD, ATSF, issued a statement in response to the historic Supreme Court decision to roll back Roe v Wade:
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FSU expert on social movements lends insight on public protests over Roe v. Wade
By: Pete Reinwald | Published: June 24, 2022 | 2:31 pm | SHARE: Deana Rohlinger, a Florida State University professor of sociology and an expert on political participation and social movements, said she expects mass protests stemming from Friday’s news that the U.S. Supreme Court voted to overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 decision that gave women a right to choose an abortion before fetal viability.
WashU Experts: Supreme Court decision will transform American life, politics
Experts from Washington University in St. Louis offer perspectives on the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade and the impact it will have on American law, people and politics.
Experts Advisory: Roe vs. Wade Overturned
ALBANY, N.Y. (June 24, 2022) — Nearly 50 years after the Supreme Court of the United States enshrined a constitutional right to an abortion in Roe v. Wade (1973), the Court today overturned that decision, sending the issue of reproductive…
GW Experts Available: Supreme Court Ruling on West Virginia v. EPA
The Supreme Court is expected to rule on West Virginia v. the Environmental Protection Agency in a case that could limit EPA’s ability to regulate carbon dioxide emissions from power plants. Environmental and legal experts say that if the High…
WashU Expert: SCOTUS ruling hints at why religious freedom means living with views we don’t like
While the ruling in the Maine case is unsurprising giving the court’s recent decisions around freedom of religion, some of the rhetoric around the case misrepresents the role of constitutional protections for religion in a pluralistic society, said John Inazu, expert on law and religion at Washington University in St. Louis.
Johns Hopkins Experts Available to Discuss Roe v. Wade Decision
As the U.S. Supreme Court prepares to announce a decision on overturning Roe v. Wade, Johns Hopkins University experts are available to discuss the court’s action and what it could mean for the future of women’s health. They can also…
GW Experts Available to Comment on the Supreme Court Abortion Decision
WASHINGTON (June 14, 2022) —The Supreme Court decision on Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which might overturn Roe v. Wade, could lead to long-lasting impacts on society as well as risks to mothers, children and families. If the Court…
GW Law Expert Available to Discuss FEC v. Ted Cruz for Senate
WASHINGTON (May 17, 2022)—On Monday the Supreme Court issued its opinion in FEC v. Ted Cruz for Senate invalidating a provision of federal campaign finance law that capped the amount of money a candidate can collect after an election from…
GW Expert Available to Discuss Abortion Rules Overseas
WASHINGTON (May 10, 2022)—In wake of the Supreme Court’s leaked draft opinion that, if held, would overturn the right to an abortion in the United States, many commentators are looking at how abortion is handled in other countries. Shirley Graham…
Texas threat to revisit SCOTUS case could be ‘catastrophic’
In the aftermath of the leaked Supreme Court draft opinion that would overturn Roe v. Wade, Texas Governor Greg Abbott discussed revisiting the 1982 Supreme Court ruling Plyler v. Doe requiring states to provide education to undocumented children. Jaclyn Kelley-Widmer,…
LGBTQ civil rights at risk with Roe v. Wade decision
With the Supreme Court poised to overturn the landmark Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion nationwide, there may be far-reaching implications for the legal rights of other groups, including the LGBTQ community. Katherine Sender, professor of communication and feminist, gender,…
Rolling back abortion rights is ‘democratic backsliding,’ UW political scientist says
The U.S. Supreme Court’s draft ruling, leaked Monday, that would overturn the constitutional right to an abortion, shows how the country is “backsliding” on democracy, says Sophia Jordán Wallace, an associate professor of political science at the University of Washington.…
This Isn’t the First SCOTUS Leak
Did you know the landmark Dred Scott decision which ruled that African Americans could not be citizens and was a contributing factor to the Civil War was leaked by a Supreme Court Justice? The leaked Alito draft opinion is not…
Final Anderson Seminar to Explore Legal Mechanism of Texas S.B.8, and Copycat Laws Designed to Skirt Judicial Review
The final Warren M. Anderson Seminar of 2022 will focus on a growing wave of state laws designed to target constitutional rights while limiting judicial review.
The United States Supreme Court left the first of these kinds of laws – Texas S.B.8, an anti-abortion statute – in place last December. Now, the legal mechanism S.B.8 used to avoid early judicial review can and may be applied to a wide range of individual rights and areas subject to federal preemption.
The Government Law Center at Albany Law School will host the virtual seminar, “Designing Statutes to Evade Judicial Review: The Future After Texas’ S.B.8,” on Tuesday, May 17 from noon-1 p.m.
Policy and Supreme Court experts available to speak on leaked opinion that appears to overturn Roe v. Wade
ALBANY, N.Y. (May 3, 2022) — Last night the news organization Politico reported on a leaked draft of a Supreme Court decision in the Mississippi case Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. While the final opinion, expected this summer, could…
George Washington University professors are available to discuss the Court’s apparent decision to overturn Roe v. Wade from multiple angles
Lara Brown is the director of GW’s Graduate School of Political Management. She can discuss how the Supreme Court’s decision could impact the 2022 and 2024 elections and the Biden administration’s response to the Court’s ruling. Casey Burgat is an…
Ray Brescia on the supreme court and ethics
Since the election of 2020, issues of legal and judicial ethics have dominated the news.
Boston bomber death penalty case reflects changing SCOTUS role
The Supreme Court decided today to reinstate the death sentence of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. John Blume is a professor of law at Cornell Law School and director of the Cornell Death Penalty Project. He has argued eight cases…
D.C. Circuit Court Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson is slated to make history as the first Black woman to sit on the Supreme Court of the United States. GW faculty experts are available to comment on the judicial, political, and procedural aspects of Judg
Brandon Bartels, a professor of political science, is an expert on judicial politics. He can provide more insight into Judge Jackson’s background and judicial philosophy and the power dynamics that could be in play during the proceedings. Todd Belt, a…
Law, Policy and Women’s Studies Expert Available to Speak About Texas Abortion Ban
ALBANY, N.Y. (Sept. 2, 2021) — The new Texas ban on all abortions past six weeks of gestation — the most restrictive in the nation — went into effect Sept. 1 after the Supreme Court rejected an emergency application to…
Supreme Court: Off-campus student speech protected, but schools do have power to regulate
The Supreme Court’s 8-1 recent decision in Mahanoy allows both sides to claim victory, according to Clare Norins, director of the University of Georgia School of Law’s First Amendment Clinic, who also serves as an assistant clinical professor.
Law, school discipline experts available to comment on Supreme Court ruling on high schooler’s free speech case
This morning, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 8-1 that a school district in Pennsylvania violated the First Amendment when it punished a high school student for using vulgar language in a Snapchat message that was posted off school grounds. Indiana…
Law, health economics experts available to comment on U.S. Supreme Court decision to uphold the ACA
This morning, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 7-2 that the red states and two individuals who challenged the Affordable Care Act do not have legal standing to dispute the constitutionality of the law’s individual mandate to buy health insurance and…
Endocrine Society celebrates Supreme Court decision to uphold the Affordable Care Act
The Endocrine Society today praised the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to uphold the Affordable Care Act, which makes health care accessible to millions of individuals nationwide, including those with hormone health conditions such as diabetes, osteoporosis, thyroid conditions, and breast and prostate cancer.
Supreme Court decision against TPS holders means Congress should act
The Supreme Court ruled this week that certain immigrants in temporary protected status (TPS) cannot get green cards in the United States. Stephen Yale-Loehr, professor of immigration law at Cornell Law School and co-author of a leading 21-volume immigration law series, says the decision…
SCOTUS donor privacy case could have ramifications for dark money in elections, Notre Dame expert says
On April 26 (Monday), the Supreme Court of the United States will address the constitutional standard for disclosure of donor information for the first time since Justices Amy Coney Barrett, Neil Gorsuch, Elena Kagan and Brett Kavanaugh joined the court.…
Law professor available to talk about NCAA and Supreme Court
Creighton University expert on Sports Law, David P. Weber, notes the Supreme Court strenuously pressed the NCAA on its definition and interpretation of “amateurism” during oral arguments on Mar. 31, 2021 in one of the most impactful cases facing the…
SCOTUS case could render farmworker rights ‘meaningless’
The Supreme Court will hear arguments Monday in a case challenging the constitutionality of a California regulation that allows union organizers access to agricultural property to speak to farmworkers. Two property owners allege that the regulation violates the Fifth Amendment…
Supreme Court term limits would greatly reduce imbalance on the court, study finds
Imposing term limits on justices who sit on the U.S. Supreme Court could bring significant changes to the nation’s highest court, suggests a forthcoming paper from two Washington University in St. Louis law professors.
Medicaid Compelled Work Experiments Represent an Abuse of Research Authority, Have Stripped Thousands of Eligible People of Coverage
A public health “friend of the court” brief filed with the U.S. Supreme Court urges the highest court of the land to uphold lower court decisions that blocked Medicaid work requirements in Arkansas and New Hampshire.
UNH Expert Offers Comment on Supreme Court Reform and New Commission
Ryan Vacca, a professor at the University of New Hampshire Franklin Pierce School of Law with an expertise in federal judiciary reform, and who recently advised the House in advance of the hearing, is available to discuss the problems plaguing the federal judicial system, how and why previous efforts have failed, arguments for and against court packing, and how the reforms might be structured to avoid past problems.
@MTSU Constitutional Scholar John Vile breaks down Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn v. Cuomo
John Vile is a scholar of the U.S. Constitution who has written and edited numerous books, essays, chapters, and reviews on this and related topics. In this analysis published in The First Amendment Encyclopedia, he examines the Supreme Court’s decision in…
Rutgers Expert Available to Discuss Supreme Court’s Hearing of Obamacare
A Rutgers health policy expert is available to discuss the aftermath of the U.S. Supreme Court’s hearing on the Affordable Care Act (ACA). “The SCOTUS not being inclined to strike down the Patient Protection and ACA is welcome news for…
What’s at stake in the Supreme Court’s ACA case? A quick explainer
Though the election and pandemic have eclipsed it in the news, there’s another event unfolding that could affect nearly all Americans: a Supreme Court case that will decide the future of the Affordable Care Act. A health policy researcher explains what would happen if it’s overturned.
IU experts available to comment on possibility of election cases going to the Supreme Court
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — As millions of ballots are still being counted across the nation, President Donald Trump has said his campaign will be looking to the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene in the presidential election. While his suggestion has been…
SCOTUS foster agency case presents important questions on balance between religious freedom and antidiscrimination laws, Notre Dame experts say
The Supreme Court of the United States heard arguments Wednesday (Nov. 4) in Fulton v. City of Philadelphia, a case that “presents timely and important questions about the Court’s First Amendment doctrines and the balance between religious freedom and antidiscrimination…
Rutgers health policy expert available to discuss upcoming Supreme Court decision on ACA
Joel. C. Cantor, director of the Rutgers Center for State Health Policy, is available to discuss the upcoming U.S. Supreme Court decision on whether the Affordable Care Act, or a portion of the law, is unconstitutional, and what it could…
SCOTUS nomination battle could sway independent, religious voters
The Senate Judiciary Committee plans to vote on the nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court on Thursday, with a possible final vote on her confirmation as soon as Monday, Oct. 26 – a week in advance of…
SCOTUS hearings: What Judge Barrett’s confirmation could mean
ASU law scholars explain the impact the confirmation could have on existing public health, health care and reproductive laws
Writings indicate Barrett is comfortable overturning precedents, such as Roe v. Wade, that have been affirmed over and over, U of R professor says.
As the SCOTUS confirmation hearings continue, Dr. Jennifer Nelson, a U.S. historian and professor at the University of Redlands, says Roe v. Wade could be overturned next year. “Amy Coney Barrett, like other recent Supreme Court nominees, is not going…
With Affordable Care Act’s future in the balance, U-M holds 10th anniversary discussion with national experts
A free online event featuring health policy experts will explore the past, present and future of the Affordable Care Act
Amy Coney Barrett Supreme Court Hearing: Rutgers Expert Available to Discuss
John J. Farmer, Jr., director of Rutgers University’s Eagleton Institute of Politics, is available to comment about the Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on the nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the U.S. Supreme Court. “Too often in the past,…
Expert Available: Supreme Court Nominations 101
Lady Justice and Lady Liberty. Strong female symbols have long been used to represent the embodiment of American ideals and freedom. So, it almost seems fitting that two women — the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and President Donald Trump’s presumptive replacement nominee Amy Coney Barrett — are at the heart of tensions over a vacancy on the country’s highest court.
Is the judicial selection process broken? Could it imperil our democracy?
On September 26, with a little under one month before the presidential election, President Donald Trump nominated Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court of the United States to fill the vacancy left by the recent death of Justice Ruth…
Is an ‘originalist’ judge good for the Supreme Court, American constitutional law?
On September 26, President Donald Trump nominated Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court of the United States to fill the vacancy left by the recent death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. If confirmed, Barrett, who has been on Trump’s…
Presidential Debates in a Highly Polarized America: UNLV Expert Available
The COVID-19 pandemic. Race relations. The Supreme Court. The economy. When President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden meet for the first of three presidential debates on Tuesday night, millions of viewers are expected to tune in. But will America really be listening? Given the country’s all-time high partisanship and the extremely tiny pool of voters who have yet to make up their minds five weeks out from the 2020 general election, analysts are putting in their bets on the influence of televised debates and the chances of actually swaying voters.
SCOTUS nominee represents the religious American woman
Following the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, President Trump nominated Judge Amy Coney Barrett on Saturday to the Supreme Court. Barrett, a federal appeals court judge, is a religious conservative and draws criticism from Democrats for her positions on…
Senate Majority Leader flips his own rule, resets terms for fairness on Supreme Court nomination schedule, U of R Professor says.
Presidents are authorized by the Constitution to nominate justices to the federal bench at any time, but in 2016, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell informed Pres. Obama that no nominee would be considered because it was an election year, despite almost nine months…
WashU Expert: Electoral College ruling contradicts Founders’ ‘original intent’
While the Supreme Court decision limits independence of electors and prevents potential uncertainty in 2020 election, it contradicts the Constitution framers’ intentions for the Electoral College, according to a political science expert at Washington University in St. Louis.