Derek Muller, a Notre Dame law professor who specializes in election law, said he saw a legal logic to the court’s moves. “The Supreme Court is stepping back from cases in Alabama and Louisiana. It’s not issuing a rule to alter the rules of the election,” Muller said. “It’s allowing the legislatures to issue the rules they want.”
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July 14, 2026
Clive Neal, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences, University of Notre Dame
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The Washington Post
July 13, 2026
“We like to have stable rules in advance of the election for voters and for election administrators, so anything that disrupts that stability is problematic,” said Derek Muller, an election-law professor at the University of Notre Dame.
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Inside Indiana Business
July 13, 2026
The University of Notre Dame’s McKenna Center for Human Development and Global Business has received a nearly $40,000 state grant to develop an artificial intelligence powered business coaching platform for low income and disadvantaged entrepreneurs in northwest Indiana. “Too many aspiring entrepreneurs lack access to the kind of business guidance that can make the difference between struggling and succeeding,” Michael Morris, founder of the the McKenna Center’s Urban Poverty and Business Initiative, said in a news release.
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July 13, 2026
Gallup did also ask about attendance at religious services, and found that the share of young men who say they attend religious services at least once a month increased by seven percentage points in the span of two years, making them statistically tied in that metric with their female counterparts in the poll’s findings. But David Campbell, a professor of political science at the University of Notre Dame, points out that other surveys that measure weekly attendance haven’t shown the same spike among young men.
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The Wall Street Journal
July 10, 2026
“Excluding candidates who engage in deception in their efforts to appear on the ballot is hardly new,” Notre Dame law professor Derek Muller recently wrote. “The courts routinely permit states to filter out candidates who are ‘frivolous.’ Indeed, the Supreme Court has been quite clear on this issue.” On that point, he says, Judge Matthews’s holding “should be explicitly reversed by the Alaska Supreme Court.”
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July 09, 2026
The University of Notre Dame in Indiana will charge no tuition this fall to students with family incomes up to $150,000, and half tuition to families earning up to $200,000.
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July 09, 2026
Rick Garnett, law professor at The University of Notre Dame, explained that much of the criticism of the decision came from the right. “People who are really angry with the majority and strongly in support of the dissent, they tend to neglect the fact that even the dissenting justices agreed…that the Constitution would require citizenship for quite a few people who were born from people who were present unlawfully,” he said.
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Associated Press
July 08, 2026
Derek Muller, a law professor at the University of Notre Dame who specializes in election law, said it’s not clear the 50-state letter means anything except to restate some parts of the law, with a request to follow up, “which I’m sure many states will ignore.”
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The New Yorker
July 07, 2026
The anthropologist Lee Gettler speculates that “low-T” fatherhood is basically an adaptation to circumstances: when new dads are immersed in the work of parenting—bathing infants and changing their diapers, or helping older kids navigate the emotional complexities of middle school—it simply doesn’t make sense for them to be “hormonally focused on competition and aggression.”
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The New York Times
July 06, 2026
“Justice Alito had a hand in many of the most influential decisions, held together majorities and continued to write in ways that advanced many of the conservative legal movement’s causes over the last 50 years,” said Derek T. Muller, a professor and election law expert at Notre Dame’s law school. “It’s a vote of confidence from the chief, and suggests a respect for his mind, his craft and his ability to keep a majority together in high-profile cases in which the justices might divide on how broadly they want to resolve something,” said Sherif Girgis, a law professor at Notre Dame who was a law clerk for the justice.
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OSV News
July 06, 2026
One of the few Americans in the crowd for the papal Mass on U.S. Independence Day was Father Daniel Groody, a professor of theology at the University of Notre Dame and a member of the Vatican Dicastery for Integral Human Development. “Pope Leo, especially now on the Fourth of July, is signaling what true freedom is about. True freedom is about the capacity to love,” Father Groody told OSV News.
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U.S. News & World Report
July 06, 2026
“People have a lot of doom and gloom about Social Security, but I don’t,” says Jeffrey Campbell, an economics professor at the University of Notre Dame. He believes much of the talk about the program running out of money is overblown and doesn’t think older Americans should worry about Social Security benefits being reduced. That’s good news for retirees who stand to collect hundreds of thousands of dollars from the program.
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The Washington Post
July 06, 2026
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July 06, 2026
“He has a tremendous amount of power,” said Derek Muller, a Notre Dame Law 91视频 professor. “It feels like every big case, it’s constantly Chief Justice Roberts.”
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