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Higher Education

Should You Discuss Race in Your College Essay?

August 9, 2023

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SUPREME COURT

Gay Rights, Federal Elections, and the Rest of the Supreme Court’s Historic Term

July 5, 2023

Photo: People demonstrate outside the Supreme Court, Friday, June 30, 2023, in Washington. A sharply divided Supreme Court has ruled that the Biden administration overstepped its authority in trying to cancel or reduce student loan debts for millions of Americans. Conservative justices were in the majority in Friday's 6-3 decision that effectively killed the $400 billion plan that President Joe Biden announced last year. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

SCOTUS

Supreme Court Strikes Down Biden’s Student-Loan Debt Forgiveness Plan

June 30, 2023

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Affirmative Action

Disappointed and Determined, BU Community Reacts to SCOTUS Affirmative Action Ruling

June 29, 2023

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Affirmative Action

Supreme Court Guts Affirmative Action in College Admissions, Provides Scant Guidance for Universities

June 29, 2023

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HEALTHCARE

One Year after Roe v. Wade Was Overturned, What’s the State of Abortion Care in the United States?

June 21, 2023

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Commencement 2023

Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson to 2023 BU LAW Graduates: “Anything Is Possible”

May 21, 2023

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Health & Medicine

Supreme Court Upholds FDA Approval of Mifepristone: What’s Next?

April 24, 2023

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SUPREME COURT

Biden’s Legal Strategy Could Result in Supreme Court Scuttling His Student Loan Cancellation Program

February 27, 2023

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Voices & Opinion

POV: Forced Displacement of Migrants Is Cruel and Inhumane—the United States Must Do Better

February 1, 2023

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Business & Law

Can a Website Designer Turn Away Same-Sex Couples? The Supreme Court Will Decide

December 2, 2022

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Animal Rights

Your Bacon Shouldn’t Be the Product of Animal Cruelty, Says Animal Rights Activist and LAW Alum

December 1, 2022

Members of the Supreme Court sit for a new group portrait following the addition of Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, at the Supreme Court building in Washington, Friday, Oct. 7, 2022. Bottom row, from left, Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Associate Justice Clarence Thomas, Chief Justice of the United States John Roberts, Associate Justice Samuel Alito, and Associate Justice Elena Kagan. Top row, from left, Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett, Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch, Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh, and Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Politics

Should Supreme Court Justices Have a Code of Conduct?

November 16, 2022

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Voices & Opinion

POV: Affirmative Action in College Admissions Is at Risk

October 28, 2022

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Supreme Court & Affirmative Action

The Supreme Court Cases That Could End Affirmative Action

October 28, 2022

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SCOTUS

Supreme Court Overturns Roe v. Wade, Ending 50 Years of Abortion Rights

June 24, 2022

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US Supreme Court

Guns, God, Abortion, Affirmative Action: US Supreme Court’s Historic 2022

February 16, 2022

Guns, God, Abortion, Affirmative Action: US Supreme Court’s Historic 2022