Another skirmish in the abortion wars
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Law and defining identity
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Deporting Veterans
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The Shadow of 1919
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Can Trump Declare a National Emergency and Use the Military to Build a Wall?
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The Silent Rabid Dog: What History Teaches about Congress’s Power to Alter Birthright Citizenship
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Time for constitutional change
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Kavanaugh complaints referred for investigation! What’s up with that?
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Roger Taney, John Roberts, and the potential for Democratic reform
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Some thoughts on the Kavanaugh nomination
This is not going where you think it is. You find out that a man