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Commentary: Further Prosecutions Over The 2020 Election Are Not Justified, Bruce Ledewitz
Commentary: Further Prosecutions Over The 2020 Election Are Not Justified, Bruce Ledewitz
Newspaper Columns
Collected biweekly contributions to the Pennsylvania Capital-Star, a nonpartisan, nonprofit news site.
Did The Biden Administration Violate The First Amendment?, Bruce Ledewitz
Did The Biden Administration Violate The First Amendment?, Bruce Ledewitz
Newspaper Columns
Collected biweekly contributions to the Pennsylvania Capital-Star, a nonpartisan, nonprofit news site.
Today’S Supreme Court: ‘Not A Normal Court,’ But Not Unprecedented Either, Bruce Ledewitz
Today’S Supreme Court: ‘Not A Normal Court,’ But Not Unprecedented Either, Bruce Ledewitz
Newspaper Columns
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Pardon Me? Why Biden Should Pull A Gerald Ford When It Comes To Trump, Bruce Ledewitz
Pardon Me? Why Biden Should Pull A Gerald Ford When It Comes To Trump, Bruce Ledewitz
Newspaper Columns
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Six Lessons From The Debt Deal. What Did We Learn?, Bruce Ledewitz
Six Lessons From The Debt Deal. What Did We Learn?, Bruce Ledewitz
Newspaper Columns
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The Durham Report Shows Why We Don’T Want The Fbi Involved In Politics, Bruce Ledewitz
The Durham Report Shows Why We Don’T Want The Fbi Involved In Politics, Bruce Ledewitz
Newspaper Columns
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Jane Crow Constitutionalism, Evan D. Bernick
Jane Crow Constitutionalism, Evan D. Bernick
College of Law Faculty Publications
On June 24, 2022 The United States Supreme Court issued its decision on Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization; overturning Roe v. Wade, and destroying fifty years of precedent to protect the constitutional right to abortion in the United States. This overturning sets a dangerous, new precedent that reinforces the State’s control of reproduction, and criminalizes a woman’s right to choose, with very few exceptions. In states like Mississippi, Black women are already experiencing the highest rates of maternal mortality, incarceration, and poverty.
This article posits that Dobbs operates to maintain a racialized and gendered underclass, and names this phenomenon …
If The Gop Won’T Do It, Democrats Will Have To Block Trump’S Nomination For Them, Bruce Ledewitz
If The Gop Won’T Do It, Democrats Will Have To Block Trump’S Nomination For Them, Bruce Ledewitz
Newspaper Columns
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The Pgh Synagogue Shooting Case Should’Ve Been Heard In Pa. Court, Bruce Ledewitz
The Pgh Synagogue Shooting Case Should’Ve Been Heard In Pa. Court, Bruce Ledewitz
Newspaper Columns
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The Views Aired At Pitt Debate Were Ugly. It Was Still Right To Let It Happen, Bruce Ledewitz
The Views Aired At Pitt Debate Were Ugly. It Was Still Right To Let It Happen, Bruce Ledewitz
Newspaper Columns
Collected biweekly contributions to the Pennsylvania Capital-Star, a nonpartisan, nonprofit news site.
The Theological Error Behind Post-Liberalism’S Bid For Political Power, Bruce Ledewitz
The Theological Error Behind Post-Liberalism’S Bid For Political Power, Bruce Ledewitz
Ledewitz Papers
Published scholarship collected from academic journals, law reviews, newspaper publications & online periodicals.
With Pa’S Highest Court Depleted, Shapiro, Gop Senate Leaders Let Voters Down, Bruce Ledewitz
With Pa’S Highest Court Depleted, Shapiro, Gop Senate Leaders Let Voters Down, Bruce Ledewitz
Newspaper Columns
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Privacy And Property: Constitutional Concerns Of Dna Dragnet Testing, E. Wyatt Jones
Privacy And Property: Constitutional Concerns Of Dna Dragnet Testing, E. Wyatt Jones
Honors Projects
DNA dragnets have attracted both public and scholarly criticisms that have yet to be resolved by the Courts. This review will introduce a modern understanding of DNA analysis, a complete introduction to past and present Fourth and Fourteenth Amendment jurisprudence, and existing suggestions concerning similar issues in legal scholarship. Considering these contexts, this review concludes that a focus on privacy and property at once, with a particular sensitivity to the inseverable relationship between the two interests, is Constitutionally consistent with precedent and the most workable means of answering the question at hand.
What Bad Decisions By Ron Desantis And Gavin Newsom Have In Common, Bruce Ledewitz
What Bad Decisions By Ron Desantis And Gavin Newsom Have In Common, Bruce Ledewitz
Newspaper Columns
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The Panama Canal Treaties Were Carter’S Biggest Foreign Policy Win, Bruce Ledewitz
The Panama Canal Treaties Were Carter’S Biggest Foreign Policy Win, Bruce Ledewitz
Newspaper Columns
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What Both Sides Of The Abortion Fight Can Learn From Antonin Scalia, Bruce Ledewitz
What Both Sides Of The Abortion Fight Can Learn From Antonin Scalia, Bruce Ledewitz
Newspaper Columns
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Why I Am No Longer A Jew, Bruce Ledewitz
Why I Am No Longer A Jew, Bruce Ledewitz
Ledewitz Papers
Published scholarship collected from academic journals, law reviews, newspaper publications & online periodicals.
By Any Measure, Liberal Democracy Is Superior. Here’S Why, Bruce Ledewitz
By Any Measure, Liberal Democracy Is Superior. Here’S Why, Bruce Ledewitz
Newspaper Columns
Collected biweekly contributions to the Pennsylvania Capital-Star, a nonpartisan, nonprofit news site.
If I Were A Betting Man: Some Predictions For The Year We Have Left, Bruce Ledewitz
If I Were A Betting Man: Some Predictions For The Year We Have Left, Bruce Ledewitz
Newspaper Columns
Collected biweekly contributions to the Pennsylvania Capital-Star, a nonpartisan, nonprofit news site.
On Pope Benedict, Science, Faith, And His Legacy, Bruce Ledewitz
On Pope Benedict, Science, Faith, And His Legacy, Bruce Ledewitz
Newspaper Columns
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An Alternative To The Independent State Legislature Doctrine, Bruce Ledewitz
An Alternative To The Independent State Legislature Doctrine, Bruce Ledewitz
Ledewitz Papers
Published scholarship collected from academic journals, law reviews, newspaper publications & online periodicals
The Openness Of Talmud, Bruce Ledewitz
The Openness Of Talmud, Bruce Ledewitz
Ledewitz Papers
Published scholarship collected from academic journals, law reviews, newspaper publications & online periodicals.
What Is The Object Of The Constitutional Oath?, Evan D. Bernick, Christopher R. Green
What Is The Object Of The Constitutional Oath?, Evan D. Bernick, Christopher R. Green
College of Law Faculty Publications
How and why are public officials today obliged to follow the Constitution? Article VI gives us a crystal-clear answer: They are bound “by oath or affirmation, to support this Constitution.” But what is “this Constitution”? American constitutional culture today describes its Constitution in ways that presuppose that the Article VI oath binds officeholders to an external, objective, common object: the same commitment for all oath-takers today, and the same commitment today as in the past. Justices on the Supreme Court took their constitutional oaths at different times, spread out over 31 years from 1991 to 2022, but they claim to …
Equal Protection Against Policing, Evan D. Bernick
Equal Protection Against Policing, Evan D. Bernick
College of Law Faculty Publications
A White police officer pins his knee against a Black man’s neck. The Black man lies prone. He says he can’t move. He says he can’t breathe. He says he’s through. He pleads for his mama. He moans, gasps, and writhes. Blood runs out of his nose and mouth. After eight minutes and forty-six seconds, George Floyd is dead.
Videos of the killing went viral. All four of the Minneapolis Police Department officers who arrested Floyd for allegedly using a counterfeit $20 bill at a convenience store were fired. Derek Chauvin—who held his knee to Floyd’s neck—was initially charged by …