For the 2020-2021 school year, Vanderbilt University’s campus held 7,516 women pursuing degrees across our schools. This amounts to approximately 56% of students. In 2020, 51% of the law school students...
The case for former President Donald Trump’s legal liability for inciting the January 6th insurrection is coming to fruition almost exactly a year after the attack.
For over five hours, attorneys...
At many points in history, women have been punished for simply existing as women, stripped of the ability to make decisions in regard to their own bodies. Texas Senate Bill 8 is simply the next mechanism...
On Tuesday March 7, the Supreme Court heard two cases challenging Arizona voting rules: Brnovich v. Democratic National Committee and Arizona Republican Party v. Democratic National Committee. These cases...
In the next few months, observers expect a decision from the Supreme Court on Lange v. California. The ruling will decide whether the Fourth Amendment protects someone who has committed a misdemeanor in...
The year is 1800 and Republican representatives have earned a majority of spots in the political branches, but the Federalists still hold positions in the judiciary branch. In response, the newly instated...
Following Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s passing, and anticipating the potential appointment of Judge Amy Coney Barrett, the subject of court packing has re-entered the public stage for...
On Saturday, President Donald Trump announced that Judge Amy Coney Barrett was his selection to fill the vacant Supreme Court seat left by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. In 2018, President Trump said he...
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died at 87 on Friday, September 18, 2020. Justice Ginsburg served on the Court since her appointment by President Bill Clinton in 1993, and she was one of the...
Qualified immunity is a vague doctrine that prevents police officers from going to trial unless a “clearly established law” has been broken or it has been broken not in “good faith” by someone who is “knowingly incompetent”.
Last weekend, Judge Brett Kavanaugh of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit was confirmed by the U.S. Senate as the next Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. Justice Kavanaugh...
