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Civic engagement is a core value for me. I have always aspired to help the communities I’m from.” Mazaher Kaila, a Maxwell alumna and third-year student at Syracuse University's College of Law, moved with her family from Sudan to Central New York when she was four years old. “I realized that to make meaningful change in society, I needed to understand the systems that power it—government and politics—and that’s insight I would gain by studying political science.”
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Keck Weighs In on SCOTUS’s Trump Primary Ruling in Al Jazeera Article
March 7, 2024
Al Jazeera
Colorado’s state Supreme Court ruled in December that Trump had run afoul of the insurrection clause in the 14th Amendment by inciting the riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. But in a unanimous ruling earlier this week, the U.S. Supreme Court deemed the state could not remove Trump from its primary ballot.
Thomas Keck, professor of political science and Michael O. Sawyer Chair of Constitutional Law and Politics, says the Colorado case had long faced an uphill battle.
“It was definitely always a long shot and the ruling is not surprising,” Keck says. But, he adds, the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling opened up larger questions about what guardrails exist to protect U.S. democracy.
“It has been three years [since Jan. 6], and Trump has faced almost zero consequences. That is a bad sign for the health of the country’s democratic institutions,” Keck says.
Read more in the Al Jazeera article, “‘Bad sign’: Legal scholars question US Supreme Court’s Trump primary ruling.”
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BaoBao Zhang Joins First Cohort of AI2050 Early Career Fellows
One of only 15 scholars chosen from across the U.S., Zhang will receive up to $200,000 in research funding over the next two years. Zhang will use the funding to partner with the nonprofit, non-partisan Center for New Democratic Processes to test whether public participation in AI governance is increased through the creation of public assemblies, known as “deliberative democracy workshops.”
Baobao Zhang
Assistant Professor, Political Science Department
Keck Weighs In on SCOTUS’s Trump Primary Ruling in Al Jazeera Article
March 7, 2024
Al Jazeera
Colorado’s state Supreme Court ruled in December that Trump had run afoul of the insurrection clause in the 14th Amendment by inciting the riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. But in a unanimous ruling earlier this week, the U.S. Supreme Court deemed the state could not remove Trump from its primary ballot.
Thomas Keck, professor of political science and Michael O. Sawyer Chair of Constitutional Law and Politics, says the Colorado case had long faced an uphill battle.
“It was definitely always a long shot and the ruling is not surprising,” Keck says. But, he adds, the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling opened up larger questions about what guardrails exist to protect U.S. democracy.
“It has been three years [since Jan. 6], and Trump has faced almost zero consequences. That is a bad sign for the health of the country’s democratic institutions,” Keck says.
Read more in the Al Jazeera article, “‘Bad sign’: Legal scholars question US Supreme Court’s Trump primary ruling.”
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