Obama admin: Colleges shouldn’t ask applicants about criminal records

Obama admin: Colleges shouldn’t ask applicants about criminal records

The Obama administration is pressuring colleges to not include questions about criminal records on applications, and the country's largest application is already giving ground.

Harvard prof says treat conservative ‘losers’ like post-war Germans
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Harvard prof says treat conservative ‘losers’ like post-war Germans

Kara Bettis

CAMBRIDGE — Liberals have won the culture wars, and should start taking advantage of their victory, Harvard Law School Professor Mark Tushnet wrote in a recent blog entry that has drawn much attention for suggesting conservatives should be treated like post-war Germans and Japanese.

Tushnet, who teaches constitutional and civil rights law, argues on the 13-year-old Balkinization blog that with the U.S. Supreme Court no longer dominated by conservative justices, it's time for liberal lawyers to ditch their "defensive-crouch constitutionalism."

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