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Battle for the Constitution: Week of May 18th, 2020 Roundup

May 22, 2020 | by NCC Staff

Below is a round-up of the latest from the Battle for the Constitution: a special project on the constitutional debates in American life, in partnership with The Atlantic. 

Flynn’s New Argument Is Constitutional Nonsense 

By Peter M. Shane, Jacob E. Davis and Jacob E. Davis II Chair in Law, Ohio State University Moritz College of Law 

Peter M. Shane looks at the Michael Flynn case—where the Department of Justice dropped charges against him for lying to the FBI—and says the integrity of prosecution isn’t just an executive issue, but a judicial one. 


 
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