IN JUNE, the number of students who sat for the Law School Admissions Test (LSAT) was up 20% over the same sitting in 2016—a bump the exam’s administrator chalks up, in part, to “our current political climate” spurring “people...to understand again the necessity for the rule of law”. Lawyers have indeed been busy and prominent in the Donald Trump era—and the past few days have been no exception. Late on July 14th, in the wake of a July 13th rebuke from a federal district court in Hawaii, Mr Trump’s Department of Justice (DoJ) asked the Supreme Court to clarify its June 26th ruling permitting the president’s pause on refugee admissions and on travel from six majority-Muslim countries to go into effect only for “foreign nationals who lack any bona fide relationship with a person or entity in the United States”. On July 18th just before noon, Hawaii responded to this plea with a sharply worded, 38-page brief. Then, about nine hours...Continue reading
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