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Jul 248 min read
On Political Violence
by Jack Champagne — Cover photo by Evan Vucci for AP . — On the occasion of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Malcolm X...
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Mar 265 min read
Jennifer Crumbley and the Question of Who Should Be Held Accountable in Mass Shootings
by Jack Champagne — For anyone who grew up in the ‘90s, the defining event of random, mass acts of gun violence was the shooting at...
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Aug 2, 20237 min read
The Frontier of Legal Personhood
by Jack Champagne — Advocacy surrounding any issue, whether it be political, legal, or philosophical in nature, has the unfortunate...
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May 1, 20234 min read
The State of the Union
by Jack Champagne — Predictably, the 2023 State of the Union was overwhelmed by the effort to sell economic successes to an American...
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Dec 19, 20223 min read
Meincke's Moment
by Jack Champagne — As human beings, we instinctively understand the violence of war. After all, war carries with it by its very nature...
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Nov 4, 20223 min read
Abortion on the Ballot this November
by Jack Champagne — The long-overdue reversal of Roe v. Wade comes at a time when abortion has become a far hotter controversy than ever...
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Aug 22, 20224 min read
Unheard Pleas for Mercy
by Jack Champagne — Because justice delayed is justice denied, any cognizable claim of innocence asserted by an incarcerated person...
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Jul 9, 20224 min read
Updates on UPMC Fetal Tissue Research
by Jack Champagne — We return to a saga of the abuse of human fetal remains by the University of Pittsburgh’s medical research...
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Jun 30, 20224 min read
Reflections on Shinn v. Ramirez
by Jack Champagne — When I first walked in to do my clinic hours for the Innocence Project, I was initiated with a heart-wrenching sexual...
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May 28, 20225 min read
Terminal Discrimination
by Jack Champagne — In 1998, Dr. Gregor Wolbring, then Bioethics Advisor to the Council of Canadians with Disabilities (CCD), wrote and...
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May 26, 20223 min read
Justice After Roe
by Jack Champagne — If a leaked draft opinion is to be believed, the Supreme Court will imminently overturn one of its precedents: the...
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May 19, 20223 min read
Death at Your Fingertips
by Jack Champagne — Vermont has signed bill S.74, amending the law euphemistically referred to as the Patient Choice and Control at End...
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