ND in the News: February 2024
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Groups ready to tackle public health with new state money
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February 12, 2024
Notre Dame’s Eck Institute for Global Health is proposing pop-up pregnancy and family villages. One would be on South Bend’s west side and the other would be somewhere in Mishawaka, in August and September. They would bring together service providers to help women who are pregnant or recently gave birth to raise healthier babies and be healthier themselves.
WSBT TV
Football in America: A record-breaking season
February 11, 2024
“The more that sport and the people who play it permeates American culture and entertainment and other spaces, the wider swath of people are going to know about it,” said Katherine Walden, an Assistant Teaching Professor of American Studies at the University of Notre Dame.
Marketplace
Americans bought fewer Chinese imports in 2023, but Chinese exporters aren’t necessarily hurting
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February 09, 2024
Robert Johnson, a professor at the University of Notre Dame, said companies have been re-thinking whether trade with China is worth it. “There’s been a movement, in general, towards moving production stages to countries that have more secure access to the U.S. market,” he said.
The Washington Post
A case of love, marriage and mortgage fraud
February 09, 2024
Research from the University of Notre Dame and published in the Journal of Consumer Psychology found couples were less likely to splurge when they had joint bank accounts.
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The Washington Post
Supreme Court poised to allow Trump to remain on Colorado ballot
February 09, 2024
Derek Muller, a University of Notre Dame law professor who has been closely following the case, said Thursday’s arguments showed both liberals and conservatives on the court are “uncomfortable with the notion that it was going to be the decider here.”
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Bloomberg
Bloomberg Law: Supreme Court Likely to Reject Challenge to Trump's Ballot Eligibility
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February 09, 2024
Derek Muller, a professor at Notre Dame Law School, and Harold Krent, a professor at the Chicago-Kent College of Law, discuss the Supreme Court oral arguments on Colorado's removal of Trump from the ballot.
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CBS News
Supreme Court appears skeptical of Trump Colorado ballot ban
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February 09, 2024
Notre Dame Law School professor Derek Muller and Harvard Law School professor Lawrence Lessig join "America Decides" to unpack how the justices seemed to be responding.
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Bloomberg
Trump Backers Dodge Jan. 6 in Supreme Court Ballot Case
February 08, 2024
Notre Dame law professor Derek Muller said on Bloomberg Law’s “Cases and Controversies” podcast that the question of whether Jan. 6 was an “insurrection” for purposes of the Section 3 involves “a lot of deep in the weeds factual questions.”
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The Conversation
Supreme Court skeptical that Colorado − or any state − should decide for whole nation whether Trump is eligible for presidency
February 08, 2024
The Conversation’s senior politics and democracy editor, Naomi Schalit, spoke with Notre Dame election law scholar Derek Muller after the oral arguments.
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CNN
Analysis: Justices could place Trump back on the ballot in Colorado
February 08, 2024
Derek Muller, an election law expert at Notre Dame Law School who filed a neutral brief that offered analysis of key legal questions, said after the hearing that the justices are likely to put Donald Trump back on the ballot in Colorado.
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USA Today
Supreme Court grapples with leaving Donald Trump on presidential ballot in Colorado: 7 takeaways
February 08, 2024
“The court seemed inclined to let the political process play out,” said Notre Dame Law School Professor Derek Muller, who has been closely following the ballot eligibility issue.
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Axios
The rise of China's shadow diplomacy
February 08, 2024
"China believes that party-to-party relations are important because political parties have both a broad reach in their respective country touching on almost every area of policy and a deep reach stretching from local to national politics," Joshua Eisenman, an expert on the CCP and China-Africa relations at the University of Notre Dame, told Axios.
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Keough School of Global Affairs
Brasil 247 | Portuguese
Anti-immigrant rhetoric grows in the US in election year
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February 08, 2024
Part of the anti-immigration rhetoric is the idea that immigrants enter the United States to commit crimes. But this is a flawed speech, according to Professor Erin Corcoran, immigration specialist at the Keough School.
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Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, Keough School of Global Affairs
The Guardian
What to watch for at US supreme court oral arguments on keeping Trump off 2024 ballot
February 08, 2024
“I don’t think [the court] wants to be involved in these disputes,” the University of Notre Dame law professor Derek Muller told the Guardian’s Sam Levine in his excellent preview of the hearing.
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The Hill
Trump’s 14th Amendment case reaches Supreme Court: What to expect
February 08, 2024
“Trump’s briefing so far has really leaned into the argument that the presidency is not an office of the United States, which means that presidency is not covered by Section 3, and therefore, this whole case should disappear,” said Derek Muller, a law professor at Notre Dame who filed a brief in the matter.
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EWTN
Federal Appeals Court Rules Trump is Not Immune for Alleged Crimes
February 07, 2024
Law Professor at Notre Dame Law School, Derek Muller, joins to share how significant this ruling is.
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The Conversation, Yahoo! News
Biden’s ‘hard look’ at liquefied natural gas exports raises a critical question: How does natural gas fit with US climate goals?
February 07, 2024
Emily Grubert, associate professor of sustainable energy policy at the University of Notre Dame and a former official at the U.S. Department of Energy, explains why large-scale LNG exports raise complex questions for U.S. policymakers.
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Keough School of Global Affairs, College of Engineering
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The Guardian
US supreme court to hear arguments on keeping Trump off 2024 ballot
February 07, 2024
I think, on a bipartisan basis, there’s an interest on staying as far away from these issues as possible,” said Derek Muller, a law professor at the University of Notre Dame, who wrote an amicus brief in the case that wasn’t in support of either party.
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Bloomberg
US Silence on Trump Ballot Battle Signals Caution Over Election
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February 07, 2024
“That’s at least an understandable minimum threshold to say ‘we’re not going to step in where the outcome of this particular election or candidacy is at stake,’” Notre Dame law professor Derek Muller said on Bloomberg Law’s “Cases and Controversies” podcast.
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Arirang Radio | South Korea
Good Morning Seoul: Israeli-Palestinian conflict in light of the current war in Gaza
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February 06, 2024
The Israel-Hamas war, which has led to two million displacements and almost 24,000 deaths, including 10,000 children, in Gaza. The conflict is set to continue for months, with Netanyahu vowing to fight until Hamas is completely destroyed, and its regional impact is expanding into other parts of the Middle East. Professor of History and Peace Studies at University of Notre Dame, Asher Kaufman, will help us understand where the raging conflict stands and where it will be headed.
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Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies
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Bloomberg
Miles Davis Tattoo Extra Verdict Plays Into Possible Appeal
February 06, 2024
But civil procedure law professor Jay Tidmarsh of the University of Notre Dame said because the jury had made a determination about an issue that was tried, nothing concrete bars an appeals court from taking heed of it.
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Notre Dame Law School
ProPublica
“Disenfranchisement and Chaos”: The Supreme Court Hears Pivotal Case on Whether Trump Is Eligible to Run for President
February 06, 2024
“It’s very strange to name the Senate and House but not the president,” said Derek Muller, a Notre Dame law professor, characterizing this position.
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Associated Press
Here’s how 2 sentences in the Constitution rose from obscurity to ensnare Donald Trump
February 05, 2024
“The cases have gone poorly for Trump,” Derek Muller, a Notre Dame law professor who has followed the cases closely, wrote Friday in a blog post.
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Bloomberg
Trump Ballot Clash Thrusts Supreme Court Into 2024 White House Race
February 05, 2024
“Frankly, I think that’s one of his stronger arguments,” said Derek Muller, a University of Notre Dame election-law professor.
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