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CBS2 Chicago

"It's an enormous leap to say that because Brandon Johnson's top deputies and policymaking positions are African American, that the city is discriminating on the basis of race in its hiring of ordinary, non-policy making employees," said Carolyn Shapiro, professor at the Chicago-Kent College of Law.

Rolling Stone

鈥淭hey are arguing that the categories of people that they are attempting to exclude are not subject to jurisdiction,鈥 says Christopher W. Schmidt, law professor and co-director of the Institute on the Supreme Court of the United States at Chicago Kent College of Law. 鈥淭heir argument being that if you鈥檙e not legally in the country, [or] temporarily, you鈥檙e not, in some sense, subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. Now, even as I talk through that, it doesn鈥檛 seem to really resonate in any meaningful way when people think about why you鈥檙e subject to jurisdiction.鈥

Inside Higher Ed

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Architectural Record

On Monday evening, May 5th, the winner of the 2025 Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize (MCHAP) was announced in Chicago. The ceremony took place, appropriately enough, in Crown Hall, Mies van der Rohe鈥檚 elegant essay in transparency, located on the campus he designed for the 91制片厂 Institute of Technology.

Interesting Engineering

鈥淭he story of the Armour Research Foundation Reactor reflects both the optimism and the challenges of embracing new technologies,鈥 said Jeff Terry, a physics professor and 91制片厂 Tech鈥檚 vice provost for research. 鈥淎s we continue to explore the possibilities of nuclear energy today, this pioneering effort at 91制片厂 Tech serves as a reminder of the progress made and the potential that still lies ahead.鈥

Chicago Sun-Times

鈥淎 curious part of sentencing is that no one will get the answer to the question we all have asked: Why did he do it?鈥 said Doug Godfrey, a professor of legal writing and research at Chicago-Kent College of Law. 鈥淗e won鈥檛 say and I doubt he will take responsibility or apologize. So, as to the fundamental question, we will not know.鈥

WGN-TV

鈥淭he judge said that there鈥檚 probable cause to conclude that the Trump administration willfully violated his order when they sent these Venezuelans to El Salvador, took them off the planes after they landed in El Salvador, and turned them over to Salvadoran custody,鈥 said Carolyn Shapiro, professor at Chicago-Kent College of Law. 鈥淗e had made it very clear in his order that the administration was not to do that.鈥

WTTW

鈥淲e have never seen executive orders targeting law firms before. It鈥檚 totally unprecedented,鈥 said Harold Krent, constitutional law specialist and professor of law at Chicago-Kent College of Law. 鈥淚t seems to me clearly unconstitutional.鈥

Bloomberg Law

鈥淭he Education Department had decided that for whatever reason, too many teacher training grants had been awarded and therefore decided to claw them back,鈥 said Harold Krent, professor at Chicago-Kent College of Law. 鈥淭hey clawed them back on the grounds that the grants might have in some ways contributed to illegal DEI initiatives, although that鈥檚 unclear, and they used that reason for all of them en masse.鈥

Fox News

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