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Michelangelo Landgrave is an Assistant Professor at the University of Missouri’s Harry S. Truman School of Government and Public Affairs, where he focuses on state and local politics, legislative studies, and the politics of race, ethnicity, and immigration. JURIST Assistant Editor Pitasanna Shanmugathas spoke to Professor Landgrave about his thoughts on the creation of a [...]

A Maryland federal judge denied Thursday a parents’ request to have their children “opt-out’ of education on LGBTQ+ history and topics. In Mahmoud v. McKnight, three families parenting elementary-aged children in Maryland, objected on religious grounds to the use of storybooks featuring LGBTQ+ characters in the Montgomery County Public School (MCPS) system. The court rejected the [...]

On Monday, the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit dismissed a challenge to a Maryland public school support plan for transgender and gender-nonconforming students that does not require the consent of the student’s parents. The case is an appeal from the US District Court for the District of Maryland at Greenbelt. Circuit Judge [...]

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) Wednesday announced that an Ottawa man accused of “advocating a violent far-right ideology” was arrested and faces both terrorism and hate propaganda charges, which the RCMP states is a first for Canadian law enforcement. The accused is alleged to have helped to produce three “terrorist propaganda videos” for the [...]

The great end of government and laws is human happiness; the rulers ought, therefore, to understand and know on what it consists; and the means of producing it. — Hon. Jesse Root, “On the Principles and End of Government” The summer of 1776 was quite productive in the annals of American intellectual and legal thought. [...]

GenBioPro Inc., US maker of the generic version of the abortion pill mifepristone, Wednesday filed a lawsuit in a Maryland federal court to ensure continued access to its product. The move comes only a day after the US Supreme Court extended access to the branded version of mifepristone, Mifeprex, while the court reviews a legal [...]

The US Supreme Court Monday declined to hear David Brown v. Louisiana, a case which concerns evidence rules in criminal trials. The man who petitioned the court to hear the case remains on death row, where he has been since his 2011 criminal conviction. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote the dissenting opinion, joined by Justices Sonia [...]

The Appellate Court of Maryland Tuesday reinstated the conviction of Adnan Syed for the 1999 murder of Hae Min Lee and remanded the case. Hae Min Lee’s brother Young Lee appealed the vacature of Syed’s conviction on the grounds that he did not receive notice of Syed’s hearing. In his appeal, Lee argued that he [...]

A panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit Friday heard oral arguments in Maryland Shall Issue Inc. et. al. v. Moore, a constitutional challenge to a 2013 Maryland law requiring residents to obtain a permit from the state before they can purchase a handgun. The case is one of many new Second [...]

US federal prosecutors Thursday announced charges against 13 members, including three leaders, of MS-13. The members were accused of terrorism, racketeering and murder charges, spanning over 20 years, in the US, El Salvador and Mexico. The US District Court in the Eastern District of New York issued an indictment to all 13 members in September 2022 [...]