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ND in the News: April 2026

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  1. As Notre Dame law professor Derek Muller notes, this puts 270 plausibly within reach for the first time. “If Michigan (15), Pennsylvania (19), Wisconsin (10), and Nevada (6) all tip toward Democratic trifectas” — meaning Democratic control of the governorship and both houses of the legislature — “that’s 50 EVs,” he observes. If each of those states ratified the NPVIC, it would control an Electoral College majority — 272 votes out of 538 — and the compact, by its own terms, would go into effect.

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  2. Richard Garnett, a Notre Dame Law 91视频 professor and director of the law school’s Program on Church, State and Society, said the First Amendment’s guarantee of religious liberty did not permit governments to penalize religious schools, or the parents who chose them, by excluding them from education-funding programs. Colorado has tried to evade recent Supreme Court rulings, he said in a statement, “by imposing requirements that religious schools abandon various policies that reflect their religious character.”

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  3. When the American anthropologist Lee Gettler, then an undergrad student, heard about these findings in the early 2000s, he was hooked. "I asked [my lecturer] whether anyone was studying these questions in human fathers, and the answer at that point was largely no", says Gettler, now the director of the Hormones, Health, and Human Behavior Laboratory at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana.

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  4. Variety

    The settlement allegedly resulted in the firing of Slater’s top aides, Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Roger Alford and Deputy Assistant Attorney William Rinner, both of whom objected to the settlement. After his firing, Mr. Alford specifically warned that “Live Nation and Ticketmaster have paid a bevy of cozy MAGA friends to roam the halls of the [Antitrust Division] in defense of their monopoly abuses.”

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  5. Roger Alford, who was ousted last year as the top deputy in the Justice Department’s antitrust division, and later criticized Live Nation for hiring people connected to the Trump administration to press its case, called the verdict a “major missed opportunity” for the federal government. “They had victory in their grasp and then they just walked away from it,” he said. “To the extent the Department of Justice is not going to exercise its responsibility to enforce the antitrust laws, we now have confidence that the state attorneys general and the private bar will pick up the baton.”

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  6. “Iran has limited capability to execute its threats in the Persian Gulf, and really limited capability in the Red Sea,” said Eugene Gholz, a professor at the University of Notre Dame who focuses on military threats in the Strait of Hormuz. He said the threat meant “some, but not much.”

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  7. "This was a massive win for the state AGs and an historic miss for the DOJ. The DOJ had the talent, the material, and the audience. It just lacked leadership with the courage to step on stage,” Roger Alford, Notre Dame Law 91视频 professor and former principal deputy assistant attorney general, said in a statement sent to Newsweek.

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  8. “This was a massive win for the state AGs and an historic miss for the DOJ,” said Roger Alford, a professor at Notre Dame Law 91视频 who was the Trump administration’s No. 2 antitrust official until he was fired last summer. “The DOJ had the talent, the material, and the audience. It just lacked leadership with the courage to step on stage.”

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  9. Notre Dame law professor Roger Alford commended the states for seeing the antitrust trial through. "This was a massive win for the state AGs and an historic miss for the DOJ," Alford wrote. "The DOJ had the talent, the material, and the audience. It just lacked leadership with the courage to step on stage."

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  10. Now, a judge could eventually reject the settlement in light of the ruling on the states' complaint, according to Roger Alford, a professor at the Notre Dame Law 91视频.

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  11. Roger Alford, a law professor at Notre Dame and a former deputy assistant attorney general in the Department of Justice’s antitrust division, tells Rolling Stone, “After decades of trying to address Live Nation and Ticketmaster’s abuse of monopoly power, we hope that those abuses will now end.”

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  12. One of the ex-officials, Roger Alford, called Wednesday’s decision a “massive win for the state AGs and an historic miss for the DOJ. The DOJ had the talent, the material, and the audience. It just lacked leadership with the courage to step on stage,” Alford said in a statement.

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  13. “It is a major affordability win for the consumer and just a huge missed opportunity for the Department of Justice, which settled on the cheap in the manner that they did,” said Roger Alford, a former senior Justice Department official who has said lobbyists wield too much influence over how the Trump administration resolves antitrust cases.

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  14. Co-hosted by CUA始s Center for the Constitution and the Catholic Intellectual Tradition and Carroll Forum for Citizenship and Public Life, along with the University of Notre Dame始s Center for Citizenship and Constitutional Government, the conference included a video address by U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio highlighting Catholics' presence and influence on the nation.

  15. Kathleen Sprows Cummings, professor of American studies and history and director of the Global Catholic Research Initiative at the University of Notre Dame, discusses President Donald Trump's criticism of Pope Leo XIV with BBC News.

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  16. "There's never been anything this public, this personal or this partisan," David Campbell, a political science professor at the University of Notre Dame, a Catholic institution, told USA TODAY in an interview.

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  17. “It hardly constitutes a promise to protect non-Iranian shipping, which is likely the problem that the commercial companies and ship masters want solved,” said Eugene Gholz, an associate professor of political science at the University of Notre Dame and expert on the Strait of Hormuz.

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  18. “Where you’re from matters,” said Kathleen Sprows Cummings, a history professor who specializes in Catholicism at the University of Notre Dame. “He’s got friends, he’s got siblings in the United States. He understands American politics. He knows Republicans and Democrats.”

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  19. “This is unprecedented criticism of a Pope from a US president,” David Campbell, a political science professor at the University of Notre Dame, said via email. Looking far back into world history, Trump’s attempt to “strong-arm Pope Leo” isn’t anything new, said Kathleen Sprows Cummings, a professor of American 91视频 and History at Notre Dame.

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  20. “I find this trip could not have come at a better time,” said the Rev. Emmanuel Katongole, professor of theology and peace studies at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana.

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  21. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Father Emmanuel Katongole, a priest and professor of theology at University of Notre Dame, about the significance of Pope Leo XIV's trip to Africa this week.

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  22. OPINION | By Kathleen Sprows Cummings, professor of history and director of the Global Catholic Research Initiative at the University of Notre Dame and author of “A Saint of Our Own: How the Quest for a Holy Hero Helped Catholics Become American.”

     

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    On this week's episode of "The Nonviolent Jesus Podcast," I speak with my friend David Cortright, a leading scholar on war, peace and nonviolent resistance. He is a visiting scholar at Cornell University's Einaudi Center for International 91视频 and professor emeritus at the University of Notre Dame.

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