Sept. 3, Jeffrey Kahn, a law professor at the Dedman School of Law, SMU Dallas, for a piece expressing solidarity with Russians punished for their dissenting views against their government. Published in the Dallas Morning News under the heading SMU professor filed a brief with Russia’s constitutional court: http://tinyurl.com/2p88umzd
Silence is a lie’s best friend. So when Russia’s leaders claimed that punishing dissenting voices is just what governments do, including the United States, I asked our country’s top constitutional law scholars to speak up.
The twist is that we did it in Russia’s highest court, the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation, in what may be the first brief amicus curiae, or “friend of the court” brief, submitted there by U.S. law professors.
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