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Georgetown University Law Center

Law school of Georgetown University

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Jan 20, 2026
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Have ICE practices prompted First Amendment or Sixth Amendment litigation—what were the outcomes?

ICE enforcement practices have generated multiple constitutional challenges, including First Amendment suits alleging retaliatory targeting of immigrant advocates and challenges tied to access-to-cour...

Nov 14, 2025
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was jeffery epstein in debt and thats why he sex trafficed people

Available reporting does not present a simple, documented motive that Jeffrey Epstein turned to sex trafficking because he was personally insolvent; instead, the record shows he had vast financial dea...

Dec 16, 2025
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What are my rights if stopped by ICE while exercising First Amendment activities like protesting?

You have a First Amendment right to protest and to record ICE and other federal officers in public so long as you don’t physically interfere with their duties; legal groups and civil-rights orgs say I...

Feb 7, 2026

What role did John Podesta play in shaping the Obama administration's energy policy?

served as Counselor to from January 2014 to February 2015 with explicit responsibility for coordinating the administration’s , a role that placed him in the center of White House strategy on the and i...

Feb 3, 2026

Which trackers consolidate multi‑state lawsuits versus counting each state separately, and how do their methodologies differ?

Two types of “” dominate reporting: litigation databases that treat coordinated attorney‑general coalitions or multistate class suits as single multistate actions (examples: the State Litigation and A...

Jan 29, 2026

Which states prohibit paramilitary activity or 'going armed to the terror of the public,' and what penalties do those laws impose?

Every U.S. state has statutory or constitutional bars on : and related fact sheets conclude that armed, coordinated private paramilitary conduct is unlawful in all 50 states , but the specific prohibi...

Jan 17, 2026

What legal and oversight mechanisms constrain ICE’s use of surveillance technology and domestic intelligence gathering?

ICE’s technical reach is restrained by a patchwork of oversight: internal DHS privacy policies, Congressional and inspector-general scrutiny, state and local privacy laws, civil litigation and public ...

Jan 4, 2026

What statements has mikie sherrill made about church-state separation and catholic institutions?

Mikie Sherrill has framed religious liberty as a foundational American value, explicitly praising protections for religious freedom while opposing faith-based discrimination in federal policy, a stanc...

Nov 26, 2025

what was the most singinficant anti revoke roe v wade protest

The available reporting does not identify a single “most significant” anti‑Roe protest after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade; coverage instead documents many large, often pro‑choice demonstra...