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Conor graduated from the Georgetown University Law Center where he worked for the Supreme Court Institute and served as a senior editor for the Georgetown Law Journal. Prior to law school, Conor studied English at the University of Notre Dame. He began work as an associate in the appellate division of Vinson & Elkins this fall.

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Recent Community Comments
Excellent points, all, but I can't believe this current court will do anything but, per usual 5-4 decision, uphold the redistricting...
Elaine Snow on 4/5 at 1:32 am
What you need to realize that is that the EPA should operate on macro level and admittedly they serve an important role. However when...
richard roper on 4/4 at 9:30 pm
My initial feeling is that since the government does licenses out the broadcast frequency it can say what will be said on them. The...
Rusty Shackleferd on 3/5 at 1:12 pm
The Justices made their opinions obvious in the case "FCC v. Fox Television Stations et. al." I understand that we know what the Judges...
Ramtin Rahmani on 3/5 at 2:10 am
Some of the problems I have with these laws are ethically, I think that was a good law and the sale of those types of video games should...
Jade Bath on 3/5 at 1:06 am

Race bias in voting: The next round	6:21pm on 5/22
Opinion analysis: Genetic link not enough for Social Security survivors benefits	4:27pm on 5/22
Petition of the day	12:23pm on 5/22
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State rebuffed on DNA testing	6:37pm on 5/21

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