Georgetown Law Professor Randy Barnett Talks About Constitutional Law and His New Book, ‘An Introduction to Constitutional Law, 100 Supreme Court Cases Everyone Should Know’

On Tuesday’s Tennessee Star Report with Michael Patrick Leahy – broadcast on Nashville’s Talk Radio 98.3 and 1510 WLAC weekdays from 5:00 am to 8:00 am – host Leahy welcomed good friend and professor of law at Georgetown University, Randy Barnett to the show to discuss his new book,  An Introduction to Constitutional Law, 100 Supreme Court Cases Everyone Should Know.

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The Tennessee Star Report: Leahy Questions the Validity of Mayor-Elect Cooper’s Policies as They Relate to Tennessee State Sanctuary City Law

On Tuesday morning’s The Tennessee Star Report with Michael Patrick Leahy – broadcast on Nashville’s Talk Radio 98.3 and 1510 WLAC weekdays from 5:00 am to 8:00 am – Leahy welcomed in-studio guest and good friend Norm Partin, ambassador to the Mayor-Elect Cooper administration. Leahy questioned the Mayor’s current stance on sanctuary city policy and recited the law as written. He explained that the Mayor-Elect has stated he would only honor judicial warrants which in Leahy’s view is a direct violation.

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Tennessee Leads the Way by Being the First State to Propose Receiving Federal Medicaid Funding Through a Block Grant

Tennessee became the first state in the nation Tuesday to propose that $7.9 billion in federal funding for the state’s Medicaid program, known as TennCare, would be provided through a block grant.

The release of the 34-page proposal, TennCare II Demonstration Amendment 42, begins a 30-day public comment period, which will end on October 18, 2019.

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