California Tries to Add Tax Returns to Constitutional Presidential Qualifications (Constitution news round-up)

Presidential Qualifications: California law purports to add qualification that presidential candidates must reveal tax returns to get on the ballot
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-california-politics-trump/california-governor-signs-law-to-force-trump-into-releasing-tax-returns-idUSKCN1UP2HZ

Separation of Powers: Supreme Court upholds President Trump’s use of redirected military funds to build the border wall while an appeal is pending. https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/jul/30/aclu-asks-9th-circuit-court-speed-border-wall-deci/

Due Process: federal judge temporarily blocks Trump administration rules requiring illegal aliens to apply for refuge in transit countries before applying for asylum in the United States. 
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/president-trumps-asylum-plan-blocked-federal-judge/story?id=64553324

1A: Trump sues New York on free speech grounds for law requiring disclosure of his state tax returns to congressional committees seeking them
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-california-politics-trump/california-governor-signs-law-to-force-trump-into-releasing-tax-returns-idUSKCN1UP2HZ

1A: Trump officials shielded by First Amendment, federal judge says in dismissing DNC lawsuit for supposedly conspiring with Russia to interfere in the 2016 elections
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/455432-trump-says-the-witch-hunt-ends-after-judge-dismisses-dnc-lawsuit

1A: conservative political consulting firm sues Ann Arbor over law requiring firm to work for left-wing groups under the guise of stopping discrimination. (Make no mistake: They always have a ‘good reason’, but the authoritarian Left is coming for your liberty and won’t be satisfied until they take ALL of it.)
http://www.adfmedia.org/News/PRDetail/10805

1A: ‘professional speech’ cases are a growing area of First Amendment litigation; case-in-point - Tennessee’s new requirements for auctioneer licenses
https://fedsoc.org/commentary/blog-posts/licensing-speech-regulating-the-internet-tennessee-s-auctioneer-licensing-scheme

1A: 6th Circuit muses whether a showing of no probable cause should really be required in order to bring retaliatory arrest claims when only speech (and not conduct) is involved.
https://reason.com/2019/07/29/nieves-v-barlett-and-allegedly-retaliatory-arrests-based-on-speech-alone/

Free Expression: Facebook agrees to help French ‘hate speech’ police, will turn over user ID
https://gellerreport.com/2019/06/facebook-gives-france-names-hate-speech.html/

Free Expression: Authoritarian transgender activist proclaims what is acceptable and unacceptable speech for the rest of us
https://www.redstate.com/sister-toldjah/2019/06/13/chilling-transgender-activist-lays-ground-rules-considers-allowable-unallowable-speech/

1A Free Press: UC-San Diego’s defunding of student newspaper for writing satire about trigger warnings and safe spaces violates freedom of the press (9th Circuit)
https://freebeacon.com/issues/circuit-court-overturns-defunding-of-student-newspaper/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=4ef56fe188-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_03_19_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-4ef56fe188-45628225
 
1A Free Press: 4th Circuit knocks down Baltimore police practice of requiring nondisclosure agreements as a condition of settling police misconduct claims
https://www.rcfp.org/baltimore-police-ndas-unconstitutional/
 
4A: posting video on Facebook posing with guns and smoking pot gives police probable cause to get a warrant to ask Facebook for identity (8th Circuit)
https://reason.com/2019/06/28/short-circuit-a-roundup-of-recent-federal-court-decisions-9/

14A Equal Protection: racial quotas in Connecticut schools create roadblocks for minority children; high-achieving magnet schools have empty seats because there aren’t ‘enough’ whites
https://fedsoc.org/commentary/blog-posts/good-intentions-gone-awry-racial-quotas-in-connecticut-schools

14A Equal Protection: lawsuit challenges State Department policy of conferring automatic citizenship to U.S. couples’ children born abroad, but not if it’s a same-sex marriage
https://reason.com/2019/07/25/lawsuit-challenges-state-department-policy-discriminating-against-children-of-same-sex-married-couples/

Discrimination: EEOC to argue in Supreme Court in October it is allowed to puff up the definition of ‘sex’ as a protected class in its enabling statute to include ‘gender identity’ (lots of civil rights commissions are playing this game)
https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/07/26/this-lawsuit-over-sex-and-gender-identity-will-have-sweeping-implications/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=this-lawsuit-over-sex-and-gender-identity-will-have-sweeping-implications&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiWmpnNFlqazNNVEprWkRCaCIsInQiOiJJVUpuRFRGbDdyVEMzVndqZ0ZBbDdXSkI2NHFpODduVEoxajNSZFFGemJ3REdwcXgxK0U3elFQdnk3WTl0cmpUKzV5bFJ2SE1nbThFakJSUllueitcL2NnOTArbnZ4cHdWVGhWamE2S1BKYVA3ZVRJVXZ6RUZMUmM0TUllZDFFV2IifQ%3D%3D

Economic Liberty: Supreme Court struck down Tennessee law prohibiting new residents from getting a liquor license for 2 years (law protected existing liquor stores from competition)
https://reason.com/2019/06/28/short-circuit-a-roundup-of-recent-federal-court-decisions-9/

Appointments Clause: Supreme Court to consider ‘subdelegation’, i.e., whether ‘inferior officers’ in administrative agencies can issue legally binding regulations or Senate confirmation of the issuing official is required
https://fedsoc.org/events/subdelegations-of-rulemaking-power-and-the-appointments-clause

Shame! “Parents Laugh and Urge Children to Take Turns Whacking ICE Agent Piñata at Chicago East Side Community Day”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/07/parents-laugh-and-urge-children-to-take-turns-whacking-ice-agent-pinata-at-chicago-east-side-community-day-video/

Kudos! “Prize-Winning Student Film Shows What It Means to Be American” (we have the freedom to hold our government accountable and the duty to maintain our Republic by doing so)
https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/07/29/high-school-students-prize-winning-film-shows-what-it-means-to-be-american/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=high-school-students-prize-winning-film-shows-what-it-means-to-be-american&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiWmpnNFlqazNNVEprWkRCaCIsInQiOiJJVUpuRFRGbDdyVEMzVndqZ0ZBbDdXSkI2NHFpODduVEoxajNSZFFGemJ3REdwcXgxK0U3elFQdnk3WTl0cmpUKzV5bFJ2SE1nbThFakJSUllueitcL2NnOTArbnZ4cHdWVGhWamE2S1BKYVA3ZVRJVXZ6RUZMUmM0TUllZDFFV2IifQ%3D%3D