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After a federal court turned down a lawsuit that challenged a Michigan ban on affirmative action, reactions from Harvard professors and students ranged from disappointed to unsurprised. On Tuesday, a U.S. district judge dismissed the lawsuit that challenges the ban on affirmative action that was approved by voters, known as Proposal 2. In 2006, Michigan residents voted to end affirmative action in public universities and agencies in the state by a majority of 58 percent. Harvard Law School professor Mark V. Tushnet said he thought the court’s decision was “not surprising?...
...levels. School Committee member Patricia M. Nolan ’80, who voted against Fowler-Finn’s contract extension, said after the meeting that she would still support a “zero” year contract for Fowler-Finn. “I think what our district needs right now is not the current skill set the superintendent has,” she said. Nolan, who says she is concerned about a perceived “discrepancy” between Cambridge schools’ reported performance and the official records, wrote a letter last month...
...issue in the case, D.C. v. Heller, is the city's ban prohibiting possession of handguns that were not registered as of 1976. Dick Anthony Heller, a security guard, sued the district after it denied him permission to register, and thus possess, a handgun that he wanted to keep in his home for protection. A federal appeals court in D.C. sided with Heller, finding that the city's gun ban - considered the nation's strictest - violated Heller's Second Amendment right to bear arms. The text of the amendment, arguably one of the more convoluted in the Constitution, reads...
...think so. They favored a broader interpretation that included individual rights. "The two clauses go together beautifully: Since we need a militia, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed," said Justice Antonin Scalia. In a spirited back-and-forth with the district's lawyer, former solicitor general Walter Dellinger, Chief Justice John Roberts scoffed at the D.C. ban's sweeping restrictions. "What is reasonable about a total ban on possession?" he asked. Justice Samuel Alito joined his colleagues, pointing out that the ban's provision - that legal rifles or shotguns be kept unloaded...
...Center to Prevent Gun Violence. He notes that while the majority of justices "expressed skepticism" about D.C.'s gun laws, "there certainly did not appear to be a majority for establishing a constitutional standard that would call into question the validity of gun control laws across the board." The district's gun ban is certainly under fire. Whether it will suffer a fatal blow or a flesh wound remains to be seen...