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Tagged: U.S. Supreme Court

Scalia’s death raises questions about life-time terms for Supreme Court justices

Term limits might be useful, says NIU’s Ward

  • February 19, 2016
The death of Antonin Scalia has created political intrigue that the late justice most likely wanted to avoid at all costs. “What justices do is they try to time their…

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Question for the ages

Are the 2015 Chicago Cubs actually better than the famous 1908 champions?

  • October 8, 2015
With the Chicago Cubs headed to the National League Division Series, the NIU Newsroom posed a question for the ages to Artemus Ward: Are the 2015 Chicago Cubs better than…

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F-bombed

Is our culture really more profane than in the past?

  • September 30, 2015
“In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer.” —Mark Twain, a Biography A few years back, Jeff Chown was teaching an NIU…

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Road signs at intersection of Religion and Politics

Using My Religion

Politically unified state governments stir constitutional waters, trouble

  • April 22, 2015
With a swipe of his pen in late March, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence ignited a national firestorm by signing into law the state’s new Religious Freedom Restoration Act. Lawmakers believed…

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Photo of a ballot box

Five years later: Citizens United v. FEC

  • January 21, 2015
On Jan. 21, 2010, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that political spending is a form of protected speech. Five years later, NIU political science professor Scot Schraufnagel examines the playing…

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