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Commentary The Real Danger of Presidential Spying
The Real Danger of Presidential Spying
JURIST Staff
January 30, 2006 08:01:00 am

JURIST Guest Columnist Brian J. Foley of Florida Coastal School of Law says that the greatest threat posed by President Bush's domestic surveillance program is not to the privacy of ordinary Americans but rather to the independence of potential political...

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Commentary Alito's Discrimination Problem
Alito's Discrimination Problem
JURIST Staff
January 28, 2006 08:01:00 am

JURIST Guest Columnist David Kairys of Temple University School of Law says that the Senate should fully examine Judge Samuel Alito's views on race and gender discrimination - strangely shaped in the turmoil of the 1960s - before voting on...

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Commentary PATRIOT Games: Terrorism Law and Executive Power
PATRIOT Games: Terrorism Law and Executive Power
JURIST Staff
January 26, 2006 08:01:00 am

JURIST Guest Columnist Susan Herman of Brooklyn Law School says that reauthorization of the USA PATRIOT Act is up for debate again in Congress just as revelations about the NSA domestic surveillance program remind us why executive power needs to...

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Commentary Much Pain, Much Gain: Skeptical Ruminations on the Vioxx Litigation
Much Pain, Much Gain: Skeptical Ruminations on the Vioxx Litigation
JURIST Staff
January 23, 2006 08:01:00 am

JURIST Guest Columnist Benjamin Zipursky of Fordham University School of Law says that the ongoing Vioxx litigation is exposing serious shortcomings in America's products liability system... In August, a jury in Texas arrived at a huge verdict of $253 million...

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Commentary Legal Technicalities: Weighing the Alito Nomination
Legal Technicalities: Weighing the Alito Nomination
JURIST Staff
January 23, 2006 08:01:00 am

JURIST Guest Columnist David Kairys of Temple University School of Law says that senators weighing the nomination of Judge Samuel Alito to the US Supreme Court should be wary of endorsing his commitment to legal technicalities over core constitutional values......

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Commentary Abramoff and Congressional Reform
Abramoff and Congressional Reform
JURIST Staff
January 20, 2006 08:01:00 am

JURIST Guest Columnist Peter Henning of Wayne State University Law School says that while lawmakers in Washington are floating new ethics regulations in the wake of the Abramoff lobbying scandal, they might do better to apply existing laws and work...

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Commentary Hiding Behind 'Principles': The US and the Geneva Conventions
Hiding Behind 'Principles': The US and the Geneva Conventions
JURIST Staff
January 18, 2006 08:01:00 am

JURIST Guest Columnist Geoffrey S. Corn, Lt. Col. US Army (Ret.) and former Special Assistant to the Judge Advocate General for Law of War Matters, now a professor at South Texas College of Law, says that US claims of adherence...

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Commentary Hollow Ritual: The Alito Confirmation Hearings
Hollow Ritual: The Alito Confirmation Hearings
JURIST Staff
January 17, 2006 08:01:00 am

JURIST Guest Columnist Peter Shane of Moritz College of Law, Ohio State University, says that the confirmation hearings for US Supreme Court nominee Judge Samuel Alito were a distressingly hollow ritual that reflected poorly on the nominee, the Senators questioning...

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Commentary AUMF and the Ever-Increasing Importance of Padilla
AUMF and the Ever-Increasing Importance of Padilla
JURIST Staff
January 17, 2006 08:01:00 am

JURIST Guest Columnist Stephen Vladeck of the University of Miami School of Law says that for all the issues presented at various junctures by the Jose Padilla case, none is more important - nor, at this point, more politically sensitive...

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Commentary Heeding MLK's Call to Action
Heeding MLK's Call to Action
JURIST Staff
January 16, 2006 08:01:00 am

JURIST Guest Columnist Benjamin Davis of the University of Toledo College of Law says that the memory and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (MLK) calls us from complacency and careerism to act against injustice and help the poor...

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Twenty-sixth Amendment made US voting age 18

On June 30, 1971, the 26th Amendment to the US Constitution was ratified, making the legal voting age 18.

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