ND in the News: May 2022
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Chicago Tribune
If Roe falls, Illinois abortion providers plan for influx of 20,000 to 30,000 more patients traveling here each year. ‘We will fight for what little is left of abortion access.’
May 03, 2022
Richard W. Garnett, law professor at the Notre Dame Law School, said that if Roe and Casey are overruled, the matter of abortion regulation will shift to political and legislative contexts.
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Notre Dame Law School
Associated Press
FACT FOCUS: Gaping Holes in the Claim of 2K Ballot ‘Mules’
May 03, 2022
“You could use cellular evidence to say this person was in that area, but to say they were at the ballot box, you’re stretching it a lot,” said Aaron Striegel, a professor of computer science and engineering at the University of Notre Dame. “There’s always a pretty healthy amount of uncertainty that comes with this.”
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Computer Science and Engineering
New York Post
What legal experts say will be impact of Roe v. Wade draft leak on SCOTUS
May 03, 2022
“It strikes me that if this leak was done with the intent of affecting justices’ behavior, it strikes me that whoever made that decision was really mistaken,” said Richard Garnett, a professor of freedom of speech, association and religion and constitutional law at Notre Dame.
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Notre Dame Law School
Reuters
Under pressure: Abortion leak exposes U.S. Supreme Court's disunity
May 03, 2022
University of Notre Dame Law School professor Richard Garnett, formerly a clerk for the late conservative Chief Justice William Rehnquist, called it "very troubling that any employee or member of the court would violate what is a very clear rule about the confidentiality of the justices' deliberations."
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Notre Dame Law School
National Catholic Reporter
Press bishops to commit to net-zero dioceses, climate panel urges young Catholics
May 03, 2022
Lavigne, who will receive the Laetare Medal from the University of Notre Dame later this month, said that the high rates of air pollution and cancer from nearby polluting industries has made her community "a sacrifice zone" and threatens the ancestral lands that she and others had hoped to pass down to future generations.
The Guardian
Roe v Wade: US supreme court preliminary vote overturns abortion ruling, leaked draft shows - live updates
May 03, 2022
Notre Dame Law School professor Richard W Garnett, a supreme court expert who clerked for the late chief justice William Rehnquist during the 1996-97 term, says the leaking of the draft document represents a “gross betrayal of trust”.
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Notre Dame Law School
Bloomberg
Extraordinary Abortion Leak Threatens Trust at Supreme Court
May 03, 2022
“For an employee or member of the court to intentionally leak a draft opinion would be a gross betrayal of trust, particularly if the leak were an effort to advance partisan aims or to undermine the court’s work and legitimacy,” said Rick Garnett, a Notre Dame Law School professor who clerked for then-Chief Justice William Rehnquist during the 1996-97 term.
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Notre Dame Law School
The New York Times
A Supreme Court in Disarray After an Extraordinary Breach
May 03, 2022
The reasoning in the draft opinion is what one would expect from Justice Alito, a fierce critic of Roe and Casey, said Richard W. Garnett, a law professor at Notre Dame.
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Notre Dame Law School
New York Daily News
Leaked draft Supreme Court opinion strikes down Roe v Wade abortion case
May 02, 2022
“The only thing to say is that, if authentic, this leak is a shocking act of betrayal and a breathtaking breach of ethics,” wrote Notre Dame law professor O. Carter Snead, an expert in bioethics and Constitutional studies.
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Notre Dame Law School
Sojourners
Are sanctions actually nonviolent?
May 02, 2022
David Cortright, a scholar at the University of Notre Dame and the co-author of The Sanctions Decade: Assessing UN Strategies in the 1990s, told Sojourners that these sanctions are “probably the most severe sanctions that have ever been imposed” on Russia “in terms of the sweep of the restrictions and the amount of money that’s locked down.”
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Keough School of Global Affairs