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Professor Randolph McLaughlin discusses breaking news topics with Scripps News, providing his expert opinion on the recent Supreme Court ruling against West Virginia allowing a transgender student to compete on a girls track team and the controversy over two black Democratic lawmakers in Tennessee who were expelled from their seats.

“Most of them probably don’t know what Truth Social is. Obviously, if they use it, it tells you a lot about who they are. It's Trump's platform,” noted Bennett L. Gershman, a law professor at �鶹ֱ�� in New York City.

Professor Bennett Gershman writes about “The Tragic Case of Crosley Green” for Law & Crime. Green spent 31 years in prison before he was granted release in 2021 by a federal judge. Now, following two years of freedom with his family, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed the ruling and ordered him back to prison next week. Professor Gershman recounts this unsettling case, examining the constitutional and ethical duties of the prosecutor who failed to disclose information resulting in the release, and questioning the “heart” of the American justice system.

Legal Theory Blog reports Professor Katrina Fisher Kuh posted an article on “Can the Constitution Save the Planet?”

Here is the abstract: The Constitution as presently worded, interpreted, and applied is obstructing the development of a robust societal response to climate change, in part by failing adequately to protect healthy democratic processes and advance real social justice. We could, of course, amend the Constitution to explicitly support protection of the environment and/or better protect democratic processes and advance social justice.

"To me, it's straightforward criminal law," said Bennett Gershman, a �鶹ֱ�� law professor and former prosecutor. "You've got the act, you've got the consequences and you've got the culpable mental state. I don't know how he could say he didn't intend to do it."

"They are going to try to throw as much smoke and mirrors and red herrings into the case as they can. With Trump, every single microscopic issue is going to be litigated," said Bennett Gershman, a law professor at �鶹ֱ��.

For students in Sarah Blackwood’s How to Read Moby-Dick class at �鶹ֱ��, learning about Herman Melville’s work isn’t confined to lectures, essays or classroom discussions. Blackwood’s syllabus includes a tour of Lower Manhattan locations featured in the author’s novels and stories: the Wall Street law offices where Bartleby, the titular scrivener of one of Melville’s best-known stories, worked, as well as the streets that Ishmael walked in the opening chapter of Moby-Dick.

"They're doomed, I think. Who would want to do business with this organization or with Trump?" said Bennett Gershman, a law professor at �鶹ֱ�� and a former prosecutor in the New York State Anti-Corruption Office. Trump Organization companies rely on financing to build resorts, hotels, golf clubs and residences. In Gershman's view, the Trump Organization's last year made the company "toxic" for many potential lenders and business partners. While the indictment of its former CEO may not directly add to those legal woes, it may further tarnish the company's reputation.

Dr. Darrin Porcher, a retired NYPD lieutenant and professor of criminal justice at �鶹ֱ��, breaks down the logistics behind Trump's court appearance and travel throughout New York City.

At the English department I chair, our major has grown by more than 40 percent in the last two years. We are being driven to the edge of extinction anyway. I write to you with news about the state of the English major at one nonelite, midsize, regional comprehensive private university in New York City. At �鶹ֱ��, where I am currently chair of the English department, the major has grown by more than 40 percent in the last two years, to around 150 students. Every year we teach some 1,600 students—majors and non-majors—in seminars and workshops on literature, creative writing, and linguistics, in addition to the five thousand we teach in composition. That’s, give or take, $30 million of credit hour revenue per year.