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Stefanie Lindquist

Stefanie Lindquist

Stefanie Lindquist is Foundation Professor of Law and Political Science at Arizona State University.

COMMENTARY

Trump indictments won’t keep him from presidential race, but will make his reelection bid harder

By: - June 13, 2023

In a historically significant move, the Department of Justice has charged former President Donald Trump with seven counts related to his retention of classified documents. It’s the first time a U.S. president or former president has been federally indicted. Trump was also indicted in March by a Manhattan grand jury on New York state charges […]

COMMENTARY
Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas

Commentary: Jim Crow tactics reborn in Texas abortion law

By: - September 14, 2021

The new Texas law that bans most abortions uses a method employed by Texas and other states to enforce racist Jim Crow laws in the 19th and 20th centuries that aimed to disenfranchise African Americans. Rather than giving state officials, such as the police, the power to enforce the law, the Texas law instead allows […]