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Madiba

/ məˈdiːbə /

noun

  1. a title of respect for Nelson Mandela, deriving from his Xhosa clan name

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Madiba Dennie: I think that’s right, and he made the right call.

From Slate

Madiba, this feels to me like Joun, a Biden appointee, basically calling the Supreme Court’s bluff by saying: How am I supposed to know why the court made this decision when it didn’t bother to explain itself?

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As legal scholar Madiba Dennie wrote in Balls & Strikes before the arguments, both Skrmetti and Dobbs are about “using state power to compel a particular performance of sex and gender.”

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Madiba Dennie: As in Williams’ case, there was an unreliable witness at Glossip’s trial who had a personal incentive to pin the crime on Glossip.

From Slate

In her new book, “The Originalism Trap: How Extremists Stole the Constitution and How We the People Can Take It Back,” Madiba K. Dennie critiques the legal doctrine known as "originalism," calling it a movement born out of opposition to the school desegregation mandated by the Supreme Court's Brown v.

From Salon

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