Hiring and Firing Based on Political Views
Vol. 99, No. 1
Hiring and Firing Based on Political Views

Scott Altman*

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Systemic Absolution

  Introduction Ancient religious tradition forms the bedrock foundation for the prevailing approach to criminal punishment. American criminal penal statutes are

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A New Look at Old Money

Taxing wealth—including inherited wealth—is a hot topic, making headlines and generating heated debate. Should millionaires and billionaires face an annual

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Beyond Words: The Risks of Generative Interpretation

  Judges are beginning to use large language models like ChatGPT to interpret legal texts. This Note examines whether they should do so. Prior studies testing LLMs as legal interpreters use survey responses as benchmarks for performance. I offer the

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Can States Force ICE to Take Off the Masks?

As the federal government has pursued President Donald Trump’s aggressive immigration policy, images of masked Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents seizing people off of the streets have become a potent symbol of the administration’s disregard for democratic and legal norms.

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Towards Defensible Judge-Made Democratic Process

What is the function of judicial review? By the stated lights of Article III (“cases” and “controversies”), to individual judges resolving cases, and to litigants asserting they have suffered an injustice, courts must fairly resolve particular disputes. Yet thanks to

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