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An Extraordinary Winning Streak for Religion at the Supreme Court

5 April 2021by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Adam Liptak The New York Times “For many today, religious liberty is not a cherished freedom,” Justice Samuel Alito told the Federalist Society, the conservative legal group, in November. […]

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Asian Americans Are Still Caught in the Trap of the ‘Model Minority’ Stereotype, and It Creates Inequality for All

17 July 2020by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Viet Thanh Nguyen Time The face of Tou Thao haunts me. The Hmong-American police officer stood with his back turned to Derek Chauvin, his partner, as Chauvin knelt on […]

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Thousands of U.S. Judges Who Broke Laws, Oaths Remained on the Bench

9 July 2020by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Michael Berens & John Shiffman Reuters Judge Les Hayes is among thousands of state and local judges across America who were allowed to keep positions of extraordinary power and […]

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Sex Robots Are Here, But Laws Aren’t Keeping Up

30 June 2020by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Francis X. Shen The Conversation The robots are here. Are the “sexbots” close behind? From the Drudge Report to The New York Times, sex robots are rapidly becoming a part of the national conversation […]

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Changing the Conversation About Government Regulation

11 May 2016by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Daniel Carpenter Washington Monthly It’s late, and we’re tired. In the last year of the Obama presidency, a certain fatigue has set in to domestic policy debates, especially over […]

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Legally, How Smart do You Have to be to be a Parent?

1 February 2016by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Lisa Miller New York Magazine How smart do you have to be to be a parent? Sara Gordon didn’t walk until she was 18 months old. She didn’t talk […]

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Plea Bargaining and the Innocent

14 January 2015by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By John L. Kane The Marshall Project Ninety-seven percent of federal convictions and ninety-four percent of state convictions are the results of guilty pleas. As United States Supreme Court Justice […]

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