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UC Berkeley School of Law professor John Yoo has been consulting the White House on a political theory that allows a sitting president to impose policies without congressional approval.
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The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of the UC Board of Regents on Thursday, finding that President Donald Trump’s decision to rescind the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, program was “arbitrary.”
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The Berkeley Police Review Commission’s Use of Force Policy Subcommittee has a big task ahead of it — to “wordsmith,” on a short deadline, an important police policy that none of the commission members are particularly happy with.
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In the wake of George Floyd’s death and the ensuing protests across the country, four UC Berkeley professors discussed their thoughts in the first segment of a longer series on race and policing.
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The Robert D. Haas Undocumented Community Resource Center held its grand opening Feb. 6, creating a space specifically for undocumented students and allies. The Undocumented Community Resource Center, located at 180 César Chávez Student Center, is a space that provides undocumented students and allies with professional academic counseling, mental health support, access to resources and a place to study.
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The U.S. Supreme Court voted 5-4 Tuesday to uphold the modified definition of “public charge” that was submitted by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, or DHS, in August 2019.
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A 5–4 U.S. Supreme Court decision Wednesday ruled that public sector unions across the nation are no longer able to charge nonunion workers any fees.
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Next week, more than 108,000 applicants will open their emails to find out whether they were accepted, rejected or wait-listed by UC Berkeley — a drastic increase from the 271 applications the college received in 1892.
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With a 5-3 vote, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of the indefinite detention of immigrants Tuesday, overturning a previous decision made by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit in San Francisco in 2015. Here are six things you need to know about this case.
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50 years ago, the federal government ordered a commission to investigate the cause of race riots that erupted across the United States in 1967, and led to the deaths of over 80 people. Their findings, called the Kerner Report, were groundbreaking — the riots resulted from black frustration at an unjust and oppressive economic structure.
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