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Tantamount to nothing: Miranda “rights” can(not) be wronged

On Thursday, the Supreme Court released its opinion in Vega v. Tekoh, in which a 6-3 court held that a violation of Miranda v. Arizona does not provide a basis for civil damages under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The majority’s decision both hobbles Miranda’s enforc

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Justices agree to hear technical bankruptcy case but won’t reconsider pillar of defamation law

At last Thursday’s conference, the justices considered several high-profile petitions for review, involving issues like New York’s vaccine mandate for health-care workers, whether to overrule the court’s landmark decision in New York Times v. Sullivan, an

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A minor impact on gun laws but a potentially momentous shift in constitutional method

This article is part of a symposium on the court’s decision in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen. Randy E. Barnett is the Patrick Hotung professor of constitutional law at the Georgetown University Law Center and the faculty director

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Cherry-picked history and ideology-driven outcomes: Bruen’s originalist distortions

This article is part of a symposium on the court’s decision in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen. Saul Cornell is the Paul and Diane Guenther chair in American history at Fordham University and adjunct professor of law at Fordham Law

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