University of Notre Dame law professor Derek Muller said a small number of illegal voting activity cases are prosecuted around the country every year, and they “tend to be isolated incidents and not at large scale.” They are rarely at a level that would affect the outcome of a race, he said. “That doesn’t mean it isn’t serious,” Muller said.
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Bloomberg
May 22, 2025
Though she didn’t give a reason for sitting out, Barrett has close ties to Notre Dame law professor Nicole Stelle Garnett, who was an adviser to the school at the heart of the Oklahoma case.
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The New Yorker
May 22, 2025
John McGreevy, a historian of Catholicism and the provost of the University of Notre Dame, said that Popes have an opportunity to set an agenda on topics such as climate change or artificial intelligence, which may drive religious behavior in the long term. But, he added, “I don’t know if Popes themselves necessarily drive religious behavior.”
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Reuters
May 21, 2025
Notre Dame Law 91视频 professor Richard Garnett, who has supported the religious claimants in the three cases, described the court's trend over the past few decades as having "rejected an interpretation of the Constitution that would exclude religion from public life or prevent reasonable cooperation and accommodation."
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Yahoo
May 16, 2025
“There was, I think, an assumption that the Trump administration was going to be like the Bush administration,” the US Justice Department’s principal antitrust division deputy, Roger Alford, said during a Tuesday panel discussion at George Washington Law 91视频.
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The New York Times
May 16, 2025
“They tried to present to people in power: This is what you promised us, so you have to honor it,” said Victoria Hui, a political scientist at the University of Notre Dame, who drafted speeches for Mr. Lee in the early 1990s. “For so long, they took for granted that those words would protect us.”
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Newsweek
May 16, 2025
David Cortright, a prominent peace activist and academic, published a book in 2011 titled Ending Obama's War: Responsible Military Withdrawal from Afghanistan, in which he called on Obama to follow through on a full troop withdrawal and argued that bin Laden's death provided an opportunity to end the Afghanistan conflict responsibly.
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France 24
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May 14, 2025
For in-depth analysis and a deeper perspective on Trump's whirlwind "business-oriented diplomacy" Gulf tour, and the widening rift with Netanyahu, FRANCE 24's Delano D'Souza welcomes Asher Kaufman, Director of Kroc Institute for International Peace 91视频 and Professor of History and Peace 91视频 at the University of Notre Dame.
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Fox News
May 12, 2025
We're on the phone right now with Scott Appleby, professor of global affairs at the University of Notre Dame. (Interview starts at 36:40)
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Fox News
May 12, 2025
With Scott Appleby, professor of global affairs at the University of Notre Dame. (Interview at beginning of clip, through 17:54)
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The Conversation
May 12, 2025
By Asher Kaufman, Professor of History and Peace 91视频, University of Notre Dame.
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The New York Times
May 10, 2025
“It’s one of the great dramas of 20th century U.S. history,” said John McGreevy, a historian at the University of Notre Dame and the author of “Parish Boundaries: The Catholic Encounter With Race in the Twentieth-Century Urban North.”
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OSV News
May 10, 2025
At the University of Notre Dame, bells rang out as the white smoke signaling the papal election billowed from the Sistine Chapel chimney. The school’s president, Holy Cross Father Robert A. Dowd presided at a Mass of thanksgiving for the new pope May 8, and said in a statement that same day the new pope was “a leader of vision, humility and energy,” as well as “a tireless missionary who has never hesitated to cross borders to announce the Gospel.”
OSV News
May 10, 2025
“He opened with peace. That was just glorious,” said Thomas F.X. Noble — former chair of the Department of History and director of the Medieval Institute at the University of Notre Dame — noting Pope Leo’s first public words, “Peace be with you!”
The New York Times
May 09, 2025
The Rev. Robert A. Dowd, the president of the University of Notre Dame, said that he hoped that Leo’s election could prove “a uniting moment” for the American church. “He’s an American with a global perspective, but he’s an American,” Father Dowd said. “He understands, I think, the state of the church here in the United States.”
Axios
May 09, 2025
Arun Agrawal, a Notre Dame professor of development policy, offered initial thoughts on the new American pope while cautioning that it's early days. "[W]e can expect some continuity but we should also expect both innovation and new ideas to come from the new Pontiff as he leads the Vatican to address sustainability challenges," he said via email.
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Bloomberg
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May 09, 2025
Former federal prosecutor Jimmy Gurule, a professor at Notre Dame Law 91视频, discusses the Los Angeles US Attorney making a plea deal with a former sheriff's deputy after he was convicted by a jury.
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The New York Times
May 09, 2025
Kathleen Cummings, author of “A Saint of Our Own” and the head of a center on U.S. Catholicism at the University of Notre Dame, said the Vatican should wait at least 20 years before allowing Francis’ cause to proceed, giving historians enough time to do their work.
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The Guardian
May 09, 2025
OPINION: By Atalia Omer, professor of religion, conflict, and peace studies in the Keough 91视频 of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame. She is a core faculty member of the Keough 91视频’s Kroc Institute for International Peace 91视频.
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The Washington Post
May 09, 2025
John McGreevy, a historian of Catholicism at the University of Notre Dame, said he thought new pope Robert Prevost’s choice of name, Leo XIV, and the fact that he was a math major are significant. Pope Leo XIII — the best known Pope Leo — was focused on the reconciliation of religion and science.
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The Washington Post
May 08, 2025
John McGreevy struggled at first to find the words to express his amazement.
“Unbelievable,” said McGreevy, a prominent historian of Catholicism at the University of Notre Dame, minutes after Chicago native Robert Prevost was announced as the next pope. “This is stuff you wouldn’t have ever thought would happen. An American pope. Amazing.”
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The Washington Post
May 08, 2025
Kathleen Sprows Cummings, a professor of history at the University of Notre Dame who focuses on U.S. Catholics, said the 69-year-old Prevost ticked off all the boxes as the papal conclave voted: “a pastoral heart, managerial experience and global vision.”
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The Hill
May 08, 2025
“The church in the U.S. has been growing at a smaller but steady rate and this is likely to send that into overdrive,” said David Lantigua, co-director of the University of Notre Dame’s Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism.
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Forbes
May 08, 2025
“He’s right out of Francis’s playbook,” Kathleen Sprows Cummings, a history professor at the University of Notre Dame, told the Washington Post, citing his “pastoral heart, managerial experience and vision.”
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The Washington Post
May 08, 2025
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The Washington Post
May 08, 2025
“He’s right out of Francis’s playbook,” said Kathleen Sprows Cummings, a professor of history at the University of Notre Dame who focuses on U.S. Catholics. “He ticks off all the boxes of a future pope: a pastoral heart, managerial experience and vision.”
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South China Morning Post
May 08, 2025
However, planetary geologist Clive Neal at the University of Notre Dame in the United States suggested that the actual amount of water ice at the lunar south pole could be higher than what this study detected.
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NBC News
May 08, 2025
"Leo the 13th was a great pope with social teaching, and it signals that our next hope will continue in that vein," University of Notre Dame American studies and history professor Kathleen Sprows Cummings told Holt. "It's a remarkable moment."
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ABC News
May 05, 2025
Another potential challenge the cardinals face when posting on social media is a slew of negative comments, according to Walter Scheirer, professor of engineering who researches internet culture at the University of Notre Dame.
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