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Political scientist Charles R. Hunt shares three elements of the ongoing house speaker kerfuffle, and how political science can help people understand them.
“The shooting deaths of three children and three adults inside a Nashville school has put further pressure on Congress to look at imposing a ban on so-called assault weapons,” Michael J. Klein writes. “Such a prohibition would be designed cover the types of guns that the suspect legally purchased and used during the March 27, 2023, attack.”
“For centuries, insurrections were among the only tools enslaved people had for social change and, ultimately, freedom,” Deion Hawkins writes.
The House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack released its 845-page final report on Dec. 22, 2022, Claire Leavitt writes.
“Voter intimidation has existed throughout American history, and it has almost always been directed at people of color,” Atiba Ellis writes.
“As a Supreme Court scholar, I think it is important to recognize that there is no formal code of conduct guiding the work of the Supreme Court, which contributes to a lack of clarity regarding the ethical boundaries for justices,” Eve Ringsmuth writes.
“The January 6th hearings are making clear that American democracy is increasingly threatened by white nationalists in the Republican Party who are determined to perpetuate disinformation about the 2020 presidential election in order to hold onto power through the same system they deem illegitimate,” Author & Research Scholar Sara Kamali writes.
With the carnage in Uvalde, Texas, and Buffalo, N.Y., in May 2022, calls have begun again for Congress to enact gun control. Since the 2012 massacre of 20 children and four staff members at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., legislation introduced in response to mass killings has consistently failed to pass the Senate. Political scientists Monika McDermott and David Jones address why further restrictions never pass, despite a majority of Americans supporting tighter gun control laws.
What does it mean to “codify” Roe v. Wade? And why has it not been done before? Linda C. McClain, an expert on civil rights law and feminist legal theory at Boston University School of Law, answers seven questions.
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