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Camille Vasquez spoke out on ABC’s GMA on Wednesday morning where she told host George Stephanopoulos that it was ‘overwhelming’ to have become a social media star during the bombshell case

"Further analysis shows that you’ve made it impossible for me to fulfill the duties of my appointed post," writes Shapiro.

From Clayton Kozinski (Newsweek); seems quite right to me. An excerpt: [S]tudies have consistently shown that LSAT performance is the single strongest predictor of academic success in law school…. Criticisms of the LSAT largely echo criticisms of standardized tests more generally. Essentially, they boil down to the claim that the…

From Mangum v. Oxygen Media, LLC, decided Tuesday by James Dever III (E.D.N.C.): On August 23, 2021, Crystal Gail Mangum ("Mangum" or "plaintiff") filed a pro se "libel and defamation" action against Oxygen Media, LLC and Jennifer Geisser …. On April 3, 2011, Mangum stabbed her boyfriend Reginald Daye ….…

Kardashian passed exam in December 2021 after previously failing three times

I accidentally posted a link a few minutes ago that I meant to post elsewhere, but you can find the basic story here. The student in question is best-known for pulling out a lighter, lighting it, and then threatening to set someone's Israel Defense Forces shirt on fire--while he was…

For about 20 minutes on the floor of the House of Representatives late Tuesday afternoon, the usual partisan jockeying was dispensed as a handful of members on both sides of the aisle extolled an only-in-America original: Ben Ferencz, a Jewish immigrant brought here by his family as baby fleeing Eastern…

Regulation, Rights, and Policy

I'm delighted to report that Lael Weinberger (Olin-Searle-Smith Fellow in Law & Lecturer, Harvard Law School) will be guest-blogging this coming week on this forthcoming Notre Dame Law Review article of his; the abstract: American courts apply "church autonomy doctrine" to protect the self-governance of religious institutions, based on both…