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All aboard the Trump clemency train
“Trump is using the pardon power freely and brazenly,” Daniel Urman, a Northeastern University legal scholar, told me. “The Jan. 6 pardons especially are really a way to rewrite history and frame the rioters and insurrectionists, including individuals who attacked law enforcement officers and others who showed no remorse, as heroes.”
Jurors are deliberating in Karen Read’s retrial. Here’s what to know.
“It’s quite possible that they’re considering a ‘mercy verdict,’ or a split verdict,” said Daniel Medwed, a Northeastern University law professor who has followed Read’s trials.
ABC News
Juneteenth festival organizers focus on ‘resilience’ amid attacks on DEI initiatives
“The current administration has made it very clear in as many ways as it could that it’s no longer friendly to the idea that the country should continue to mark the racial history of the past as something affecting the present. They kind of want to wipe the history away and start from scratch,” Jeremy […]
Karen Read Found Not Guilty of Murder in Boyfriend’s Death Outside Boston
Daniel Medwed, a professor of law and criminal justice at Northeastern University who closely followed the case, said before the verdict that acquittal struck him as a sound result, given the many problems with the investigation and the evidence presented at the retrial.
Mass Live
How Beacon Hill bosses quietly buried reform bills that threatened their power
Unfortunately, it appears our Constitutional rights were reduced to filing a bill in the bottom drawer of a file cabinet in the [House and Senate] clerks’ offices,” Peter Enrich, an emeritus law professor at Northeastern University, who sits on the coalition’s steering committee, said in a statement.
Philosophy’s problem with its history
Guest: Christoph Schuringa, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Northeastern University London
Musk’s X sues New York state over social media hate speech law
Musk, who acquired X in 2022, has dramatically scaled back the rules that govern what content and behaviours are acceptable on the platform, according to Professor Laura Edelson, who teaches computer science at Northeastern University.
Popular Mechanics
Humans Already Have the Ingredients to Regrow Limbs, Scientists Find
Now, molecular biologist James Monaghan of Northeastern University has made a breakthrough that has allowed us to identify the driving force of regeneration—and maybe, one day, we will be able to give this power to humans.
Karen Read Acquittal Exposes Flaws in Police Practices, Supporters and Critics Say
Daniel Medwed, a professor of law and criminology at Northeastern University, said the trooper’s texts in the Read case, and the disturbing details in the Birchmore indictment, had brought renewed attention to persistent problems in policing.
Boston.com
These are the cleanest beaches in Boston, according to a local group
Mancini said the organization is partnering with DCR, Save King’s Beach, and Northeastern University to collect daily samples this summer at Nahant Beach.
Mass Live
Karen Read’s defense changed its strategy for retrial — and won
Daniel Medwed, a law professor at Northeastern University, called it a “classic reasonable doubt defense.”
Could Trump end Juneteenth as a federal holiday? The short answer: Not on his own
Jeremy Paul, a law professor at Northeastern University’s School of Law, said folks shouldn’t be worried, though. On his own, the president does not have the authority to strike Juneteenth as a federal holiday.