Photo provided courtesy of Unsplash.com By Matthew Naum, Staff Writer On January 17, 2020 the United States Supreme Court agreed to hear appeals from two cases concerning whether states have the authority to penalize “faithless electors”, the name for members of the Unites States Electoral College who choose not to […]
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Russian Election Meddling Inspires Seattle to Enforce Local Disclosure Laws Against Facebook
By Natalia Holliday, Web Editor In the late 1990s, political advertiser Alan Gould proposed an idea to promote political campaigns on the internet by posting banner ads on websites. To Gould, it was clear that the internet could be used to target messages and reach vast populations in a click. […]
Challenging the Ban: Legal Arguments by Attorney Generals of Wash., Minn., Against Trump Executive Order
By David Zvirman, Staff Writer On February 9, 2017, the Ninth Circuit upheld the suspension of President Donald Trump’s executive order concerning the oft-called “travel ban.”[4] The actual title of this order is Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States, and it was executed on […]
Duquesne Law Students Visit Washington, D.C.
By Susan Pickup, Staff Writer Last weekend, Duquesne University School of Law students in Professor Rhonda Gay Hartman’s health law class joined those from the School of Pharmacy on their trip to Washington, D.C. The buildings on Capitol Hill were flooded with students in white coats, who were visiting […]