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Last night, an e-mail from a third year (3L) Harvard Law School student garnered a flurry of angry responses and concerns from Black Law Student Associations (BLSAs) across the nation...
...mail was sent after dinner in attempt to clarify the 3L’s point concerning intelligence. According to an article from the legal blog Above the Law, the e-mail said, “I absolutely do not rule out the possibility that African Americans are, on average, genetically predisposed to be less intelligent...
...provide nearly enough protection of the right to privacy, which, while not explicitly included in the Constitution, has nevertheless been upheld by the Supreme Court. Finally, allowing citizens to sue their cities for being too lax on enforcement will accomplish little, and places an enormous amount of pressure on law enforcement officials to uphold the terms of the law. In fact, this particular provision could even lead to hyper vigilance, which would only increase the opportunity for unfounded discrimination...
What, then, is the point of this law? Regardless of its intended impact, it functions to enforce racial divisions already deeply entrenched in American society. Needless to say, Arizona’s new stance on illegal immigration does not constitute a constructive way to deal with the issue—an issue that certainly needs addressing. In the meantime, we can only hope that other states confronted with similar circumstances do not follow Arizona’s embarrassing lead...
...said that the law offers protections for inanimate property—for example, if a person is too drunk to sign a contract about his or her house, the contract is considered involuntary and therefore null. But the law falls short in terms of evaluating consent regarding autonomy over one’s body...