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Three years ago today, the Supreme Court decided Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard (and the companion UNC case) in a 6-3 ruling, holding that race-based affirmative action in college admissions violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Read the

In Mullin v. Doe, the Supreme Court ruled 6–3 reversing lower-court orders that had halted the termination of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Syrian and Haitian nationals. The Court held that the TPS statute bars judicial review of non-constitutional challenges to DHS’s TPS

In Wolford v. Lopez, the Supreme Court held that Hawaii’s default rule prohibiting licensed concealed-carry permit holders from carrying handguns on private property open to the public without express authorization violates the Second and Fourteenth Amendments. Join us TODAY at

@EdWhelanEPPC Four years after the historic Dobbs ruling, new questions are being addressed by courts and legislatures across the country. Recent and ongoing developments include: ⚖️ Challenges to FDA regulation of mifepristone and chemical abortion access, like FDA v. Alliance for

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