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Law professor @uocommonlaw; Co-Director @uodroitpublaw. Tweets on criminal, constitutional and comparative constitutional law. @GlobalYAcademy (she/her)
Sep 10, 2018 13 tweets 2 min read
Regarding Ford’s announced plan to use the notwithstanding clause... There are two theories of the use of the notwithstanding clause. The first is that the clause is invoked when the government proposes legislation that (very) likely infringes constitutional rights.