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Trump firing lawsuits could lead to more presidential power
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“Unless and until the Supreme Court says we don’t have a civil service anymore, they have protection. It is not easy to fire a federal worker without documenting what they did wrong, and they have a full set of protections and processes they go through,” Karlan said. “You can’t get…
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Whose Rights Are They, Anyway? Juror Secrecy versus Defendants’ Right to Impartial Trial: SCOTUS to Hear Clinic’s Case
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear argument in Peña-Rodriguez v. Colorado, which asks whether the Sixth Amendment right to an impartial jury requires defendants in criminal cases to be allowed to introduce testimony from jurors to prove that racial bias infected jury deliberations. At the heart of the case is…
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