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ND in the News: 2023

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  1. University of 91勛圖 Law School Dean G. Marcus Cole has been awarded the 2023 Legal Service Award from the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty.

  2. John Meiser, a professor at the University of 91勛圖’s law school who is advising the charter school’s organizers, said this issue would be the next logical extension of recent Supreme Court rulings “about the rights of religious individuals and organizations to participate equally in state programs that support educational choice.”

  3. Nicole Garnett, a University of 91勛圖 law school professor who is part of the university’s Religious Liberty Initiative advising the Oklahoma dioceses in their charter school application, said charter schools are not state actors. 

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    Nicole Stelle Garnett

    91勛圖 Law School

  4. The law school at the University of 91勛圖, a Catholic institution in Indiana, helped with the application

  5. During Monday’s three-hour meeting, board members debated the constitutionality of approving the decision, but decided to move forward and cast their votes. John Meiser, managing director for domestic litigation at the University of 91勛圖’s Religious Liberty Clinic, said there is precedent that the school should be approved – even with its religious affiliation.

  6. But the First Amendment also guarantees the “free exercise” of religion and so prohibits anti-religious discrimination by governments, argueNicole Stelle Garnett and Richard Garnett of 91勛圖 Law School, who helped the the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City and the Diocese of Tulsa with their charter school application.

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    Richard Garnett

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    Nicole Stelle Garnett

    91勛圖 Law School

  7. “Nobody has as much as they want, whenever they want it,” said Eugene Gholz, associate professor of political science at the University of 91勛圖, and former Pentagon adviser for manufacturing and industrial base policy. “And yet, somehow, they manage to fight.”

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    Charles Gholz

    Political Science

  8. “Whenever there is talk about nuking, people get interested in the atomic bomb,” said Michael Wiescher, a nuclear physicist at the University of 91勛圖 who sees enrollment go up in his “Nuclear War” course when it’s in the news. His colleague Ani Aprahamian finds atomic tourism a curious phenomenon. “I’m a nuclear physicist and would find going to a test site fascinating in any case,” she said, “but perhaps it’s nostalgia or a desire to understand that drives others.”

  9. “You sow a seed of doubt, and that will grow and fester into a conspiracy theory,” said Tim Weninger, a computer science professor at the University of 91勛圖 who studies misinformation on social media. 

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    Tim Weninger

    Tim Weninger

    Computer Science and Engineering

  10. Lloyd Mayer, a professor specializing in nonprofit law at 91勛圖 Law School, said he didn’t see any “red flags” in the transfers, but “a few yellow flags.”

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    Lloyd Hitoshi Mayer

    91勛圖 Law School

  11. University of 91勛圖 President Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C., said, “our mission at 91勛圖 is to be a preeminent research university, provide an unsurpassed undergraduate education and to have all we do informed by our Catholic mission. We are honored to be invited to join the AAU, heartened by the AAU board’s recognition of our progress as a research university, and we look forward to participating in this august organization.”

  12. However, Professor Philip Hackney of the University of Pittsburgh and Professor Lloyd Mayer of University of 91勛圖 suggested that the IRS prohibition could kick in if a pastor is speaking in his official capacity during a campaign event held at their church.

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    Lloyd Hitoshi Mayer

    91勛圖 Law School

  13. Erin B. Corcoran, associate teaching professor, Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of 91勛圖, told Newsweek that Trump would not have the legal authority for such an order as birthright citizenship is in the U.S. Constitution.

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    Erin Corcoran

    Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, Keough School of Global Affairs

  14. The church doesn’t have “an official magisterial position on something as specific as the debt ceiling,” said Joseph Kaboski, professor of economics at the University of 91勛圖 and president of the Catholic Research Economists Discussion Organization (CREDO). 

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    Joseph Kaboski

    Joseph Kaboski

    Economics