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University of Chicago
Assistant Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Chicago
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Will Baude
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FROM Will Baude
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Supreme Court Rules on Abortion Clinic Buffer Zones, Presidential Recess Appointments Two new decisions today from the nation’s highest court on cases that impact everyone from the President to grassroots activists. In one, the court curbed the President’s ability to make recess appointments. In the other, the court struck down a Massachusetts law that created 35 foot buffer zones between abortion protestors and clinics. Will Baude, assistant professor at the University of Chicago Law School, joins us.
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