In 2020, the Biden Administration campaigned in part upon the proponent of solving the immigration crisis, and among other promises vowed to end construction of the border wall once and for all. Yet Biden’s recent action enforcing the Southwest border has ...
Should Nine Supreme Court Justices be the Incontrovertible Precedent?
Renewed interest in packing the Supreme Court has come under scrutiny by politicians across the political spectrum. Court-packing refers to increasing the number of Justices on the Supreme Court to enrich the majority party’s objective. Throughout history ...
Fairness over inclusion?: World Athletics Council Implements Controversial Ban on Transgender Women in Women’s Sports
The world of athletics has been rocked by the recent decision of the World Athletics (WA) to ban transgender women from participating in women’s sports. On March 23, 2023, World Athletics Council released its updates on eligibility regulations for transge ...
A Comparison Between Scalia and Thomas: Part II — Gonzales v. Raich
One of the sociopolitical issues where public opinion in the United States has significantly changed in the last couple of decades is marijuana legalization, as more and more Americans have realized the pointlessness of statutes that criminalize consumpti ...
Percoco v. United States
Many people might have a pretty clear image of what corruption and bribery is and who can commit such acts. The reality is not so clear. Background Percoco v. United States involved the longtime friend and aide to New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, Jos ...
Parisian Anger Rises With Pension Reform
Heaps of trash and anger are growing rapidly on the streets of Paris which no longer look or smell like the City of Love. On March 16, 2023, the people of France reacted with uproar when President Emmanuel Macron passed unpopular pension reform using cont ...
TikTok: Bans, Berman Amendments, and Regulation Practices
In a nation divided, where even the most minor of issues seems to polarize, there seems to be one that invites near universal indignation and scrutiny from politicians of both parties: TikTok. The social media app, where users can make dance videos, ha ...
“Documentgate”
On August 8, 2022, the FBI raided President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence in Palm Beach, Florida, sparking a chain reaction of similar investigations into the whereabouts of classified documents in the hands of elected officials. In the following we ...
A Comparison Between Scalia and Thomas: Part I—Hamdi v. Rumsfeld (2004)
Dissimilarities Between Scalia and Thomas In the post-Ronald Reagan era of the Supreme Court of the United States, two of the most preeminent jurists of conservative persuasion have been the Associate Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas. Scalia ...
Merrill v. Milligan
Drawing congressional maps is often a contentious process, and the recent undertaking in Alabama is no exception. Despite the 2020 census showing that the number of Black voters in the state increased by 3.4%, the number of majority-minority districts did ...