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Berkeley community reacts to Supreme Court decision on Texas abortion ban

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The Berkeley community responds to the U.S. Supreme Court's Wednesday decision, which failed to block Texas' abortion law allowing private citizens to sue anyone involved in abortion procedures after the first six weeks of pregnancy. Photo by Joe Ravi under CC-BY-SA-3.0-US.

Texas’ law allows private citizens to sue anyone involved in obtaining an abortion after the six-week window before fetal cardiac activity begins.
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2 UC Berkeley professors donate $1M to create first chair for tech clinic

Samuelson, who is a Richard M. Sherman distinguished professor of law, and Glushko recently made another endowment to Berkeley Law: a $1 million gift to create a clinical chair for the Samuelson Clinic. The Robert Glushko Clinical Professor of Practice in Technology Law will be the first chair created for a campus clinical professor, Glushko added.
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The sovereign salamander

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The only reason we haven’t come to a collective solution is that those who create our legislative solutions benefit from gerrymandering.
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