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No more ‘nuance’: Democrats slam GOP abortion-rights backers

That’s emboldened Democrats to go after any Republican on abortion, regardless of the details of their position, said Jennifer Lawless, faculty senior fellow at the University of Virginia's Miller Center and a politics professor at the University of Virginia, who has long tracked the politics of reproductive health.
Jennifer Lawless
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Trump legal team advances broad view of presidential powers

Ashley Deeks, senior faculty fellow at the University of Virginia's Miller Center and a former deputy legal adviser to President Joe Biden’s National Security Council, said in an email that the Trump team claims in the letter “seem to be more of a political argument than a legal argument.”
Ashley Deeks
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How the FBI bolstered its image in the 1950s

According to Barbara Perry, director of presidential studies at the University of Virginia's Miller Center, J. Edgar Hoover "calculated in the 1950s that literary and Hollywood paeans to his agency were in order."
Barbara Perry