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En Banc Third Circuit Knocks the U.S. Sentencing Commission Down a Few Pegs
Caleb Kruckenberg
Determining an appropriate punishment for criminal convictions is a delicate business. Traditionally judges have had a lot of latitude in figuring out what makes the most sense based on a particular case. But judges are people too, and they carry the same biases and limitations as everyone else. This, unfortunately, includes racial biases. As a result,…
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I’ve Got Plenty to Be Thankful For
Michael P. DeGrandis
https://nclalegal.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/2020-11-24-Thanksgiving-Blog-2020-DeGrandis-480p.mp4 Hello! I’m Michael DeGrandis. I’m Senior Litigation Counsel at the New Civil Liberties Alliance, and this is a special Thanksgiving Edition of my blog post, available at nclalegal.org. Only instead of doing all the hard work of writing my post, I decided to draw it on a whiteboard! Let’s start with a…
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How Big is Big Government? Reasons Every American Should Care About the Administrative State
In the News
Author: NCLA Legal Intern Tabitha Kempf Every freshman law and policy aficionado who has spent any amount of time in the ring has almost certainly encountered lively talk about the Administrative State and its vast consequences for our nation. On one hand, there are those who defend the administrative state on account of its…
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What Do Burger King, Ford Motor Co., and NLRB Have in Common?
In the News
Can a court force you to defend yourself against a lawsuit thousands of miles away in a place where something you made, created or said just happened to end up? The Supreme Court may answer this critical question in Ford Motor Co. v. Bandemer, consolidated with Ford Motor Co. v. Montana Eighth Judicial District. In…
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Senate Judiciary Committee Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings: Two Guideposts
Adi Dynar
On November 2, 2020, Justice Amy Coney Barrett participated in her first two oral arguments as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Over the next few decades, she will get to ask incisive questions during oral argument to help her decide cases that will come before the Court. Only…
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Bad Regulations Destroy Our Environment
Harriet Hageman
One fundamental problem with having agencies in Washington, DC issue thousands of regulations that apply to everyone and everywhere in the country is that there is simply no way for them to consider the thousands of ways in which their one-size-fits-all approach can go wrong. One area especially rife with peril is in the…
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