Documentary defends Electoral College from anti-republic National Popular Vote movement; NPV would run roughshod over minorities and small states
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/sep/1/safeguard-electoral-college-story-documentary-offe/ Separation of Powers: D.C. Circuit panel rules there is no statute giving Congress the power to enforce a subpoena against former White House counsel Don McGahn https://www.theepochtimes.com/appeals-court-deals-blow-to-house-subpoena-power-in-don-mcgahn-case_3482545.html Discrimination: Washington state loses bid to block Trump administration dismantling of LGBT protection rule; state can’t show how it is harmed (W.D. WA) https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/washington-bid-to-block-trump-lgbtq-bias-rule-suffers-setback 5A: Gitmo detainees, as aliens detained outside the sovereign territory of the U.S., do not have due process rights (D.C. Circuit) https://www.cadc.uscourts.gov/internet/opinions.nsf/0/D0E6FA5B87B19006852585D2004F674C/$file/19-5079-1858799.pdf 6A: Whose right to jury trial is it? Government consent required for defendant to waive right to jury trial and have a bench trial in federal cases, but not when there are extraordinary circumstances like a pandemic https://reason.com/2020/08/28/defendant-agrees-to-bench-trial-but-government-insists-on-jury-trial/ 14A: enhancing penalty just because a defendant belongs to a gang violates substantive due process - “guilt is personal” (Arizona Supreme Court) https://reason.com/2020/09/01/arizona-supreme-court-strikes-down-sentence-enhancement-for-criminal-street-gang-members/ The Framers did not put a right to vote in the Constitution because they distrusted democracy and wanted to safeguard other rights from mob rule https://theprint.in/world/why-the-right-to-vote-is-not-in-the-us-constitution/490972/ Shame! Protesters chant ‘Death to America’. We have the ayatollahs for that. What do we need you for? https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/08/antifa-black-lives-matter-march-oakland-chanting-death-america/ Shame! D.C. task force tries to cancel the Washington Monument and Jefferson Memorial, gets their heads handed to them after fierce backlash https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/09/crackpot-dc-task-force-deletes-page-leftists-recommend-removing-renaming-washington-monument-jefferson-memorial-franklin-school/ 9th Circuit Strikes Down California’s Ban on 10-Round Magazines (Constitution news round-up)8/26/2020
2A: California ban on hi-capacity magazines holding more than 10 rounds unconstitutional (9th Circuit panel)
https://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2020/08/14/19-55376.pdf 1A: Trump appeals to Supreme Court to allow him to block users on Twitter https://www.theepochtimes.com/president-trump-asks-supreme-court-to-let-him-block-users-on-twitter_3469615.html 6A: Scott Peterson death penalty overturned; dismissing jurors who disagree with the death penalty but say they could vote to impose it violated Peterson’s right to an impartial jury in the penalty phase https://www.kcra.com/article/california-high-court-rejects-scott-petersons-death-penalty/33762455 1A: Project Veritas sues to vindicate rights of undercover journalists in Oregon; secret recording currently criminal in the state https://thevirginiastar.com/2020/08/25/project-veritas-sues-oregon-calling-undercover-journalism-law-unconstitutional/ Amendment: activist nets cool $10M from Twitter CEO to push constitutional amendment to “prohibit racism”, i.e., attack freedom of the press, association, and speech https://www.mrctv.org/blog/twitter-ceo-gifts-10-mil-bu-figure-promoting-anti-racism-constitutional-amendment-something 1A: 4th Circuit holds federal anti-riot act partially constitutional - OK to prohibit traveling or organizing for actual incitement, but not OK to prohibit speech that promotes or encourages violence in general https://reason.com/2020/08/25/anti-riot-act-partly-upheld-partly-struck-down/#more-8081649 1A: San Diego stops enforcing 1918 ordinance prohibiting “seditious language” as process to repeal it begins; clearly unconstitutional under modern Brandenburg standards https://reason.com/2020/08/19/san-diego-has-been-ticketing-people-for-seditious-language/ 1A: 6th Circuit greenlights case of Cleveland EMT who was fired after posting comments about the shooting of 12-year-old Tamir Rice; matters of public concern are protected https://www.opn.ca6.uscourts.gov/opinions.pdf/20a0268p-06.pdf 1A: Ferguson grand juror loses First Amendment challenge to state’s grand jury secrecy law (8th Circuit) https://ecf.ca8.uscourts.gov/opndir/20/08/191436P.pdf 1A: chancellor of ‘Dear Old CU’ refuses to cancel visiting scholar law prof for writing op-ed questioning Kamala Harris natural born citizenship https://reason.com/2020/08/25/university-of-colorado-does-the-right-thing/ 1A Petition Clause: it’s unconstitutional to penalize nonfrivolous litigation https://reason.com/2020/08/25/a-5764-small-claims-judgment-leads-to/ 4A: 1st Circuit upholds affirms conviction for conspiracy to violate civil rights and use excessive force in deliberately injuring man arrested on DUI charge http://media.ca1.uscourts.gov/pdf.opinions/18-1994P-01A.pdf Discrimination: federal judges temporarily block Trump administration’s transgender healthcare rule and Idaho’s attempt to prevent transgenders from competing in female school sports; Bostock looms (even though Gorsuch promised it wouldn’t)
https://apnews.com/52715601e10bfd01f48b8aa10cf22925 + https://www.dailysignal.com/2020/08/18/judge-blocks-idaho-law-preventing-transgender-athletes-from-competing-in-womens-sports/ Emoluments: 2nd Circuit won’t review emoluments case en banc; three cases ready for Supreme Court to take up https://reason.com/2020/08/17/second-circuit-refuses-to-take-emoluments-case-en-banc/ Emergency Powers: could Congress or the President force everyone to wear masks in the pandemic? Law prof says no. https://reason.com/2020/08/16/the-constitutionality-of-a-federal-mask-mandate-part-ii/ 1A Religion: community college professor in Arizona prevails against CAIR-backed Muslim student who objected to being tested on factual course material unfavorable to Islam; not an ‘establishment’ of religion https://reason.com/2020/08/18/court-rejects-constitutional-challenge-to-critical-teaching-about-islamic-terrorism/#more-8080773 1A: Law prof says protests outside particular homes can be banned, but restrictions must be content-neutral and not prevent marching through a neighborhood https://reason.com/2020/08/15/protests-outside-peoples-homes-residential-picketing-and-the-first-amendment/ 1A: 8th Circuit upholds restrictions on grand jurors’ speech; compelling state interest in preserving grand jury secrecy meets strict scrutiny test https://reason.com/2020/08/17/restrictions-on-grand-jurors-speech-upheld/ 1A: Iowa State University stops professor from threatening to expel students from class who argue against gay marriage, abortion, BLM, etc. https://reason.com/2020/08/18/iowa-state-english-professor-forbids-papers-against-gay-marriage-abortion-black-lives-matter/ 2A: Ninth Circuit holds California gun magazine ban and confiscation scheme unconstitutional; Biden wants the same gun magazine limit the Ninth Circuit just knocked down https://freebeacon.com/latest-news/federal-court-rules-california-gun-magazine-ban-and-confiscation-scheme-unconstitutional/ + https://reason.com/2020/08/19/joe-biden-does-not-understand-the-second-amendment/ 14A DP/EP: Maryland high court upholds Baltimore’s 300-foot restriction on food trucks https://reason.com/2020/08/18/tanstaafl-appears-for-the-first-time-in-a-court-opinion/ 14A EP: 5th Circuit finds all-male draft constitutional under controllling precedent, but signals different treatment of women might not withstand another Supreme Court look because they are now combat-eligible https://reason.com/2020/08/14/fifth-circuit-upholds-constitutionality-of-male-only-draft-registration-but-only-based-on-precedent/ Shame! on the rioters who tore down a statue of George Washington near L.A. city hall. Evidently, they would prefer living under a King and Britannia ruling the waves https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/08/14/watch-rioters-tear-down-george-washington-statue-at-l-a-city-hall/ Ten-part video series on sharia and Constitution explains the conflicts between sharia and the oath of office, freedom of speech, freedom of religion, the constitutional guarantee against cruel and unusual punishment, etc. The series concludes with action steps you can take regarding the 93 percent of Muslim politicians who won’t express support for the Constitution.
http://www.liberato.us/videos.html Article II,12A: Here we go again - Is Kamala Harris a “natural-born citizen”? https://reason.com/2020/08/10/yes-kamala-harris-is-indeed-a-natural-born-citizen/ Discrimination: Bostock Strikes Again! Cited to decide bathroom case though Gorsuch professed his opinion would not be deciding anything of the kind. https://reason.com/2020/08/08/the-eleventh-circuit-grapples-with-title-ix-and-the-equal-protection-clause-in-the-wake-of-bostock/ 1A: Road to Litigation - street paintings of Black Lives Matter YES, but Preborn Lives Matter, Back the Blue, and No One is Above the Law NO https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/aug/10/conservative-street-mural-rejections-amid-black-li/ 1A: Big constitutional problems with asking faculty and students to sign a Black Lives Matter loyalty oath and social justice warrior pledge (aka ‘antirracism’); non-signers could be subject to retaliation. https://reason.com/2020/08/07/university-of-southern-maine-asks-students-and-faculty-to-sign-black-lives-matter-statement-and-antiracism-pledge/ Free Expression: 45 heavy-weights hit back against cancel culture, ask Americans to sign ‘Philadelphia Statement’ declaring offensive speech is not ‘violence’ https://www.dailysignal.com/2020/08/11/philadelphia-statement-defends-free-speech-from-cancel-culture/ Free Expression: Professor at left-dominated school fights to offer course critical of Marxism to all students https://www.mrctv.org/index.php/blog/scientific-speech-orthodoxy-was-sired-marxist-speech-orthodoxy-college-blocks-students-hearing
1A: K-12 student speech rights not limited to political speech (1st Circuit) https://reason.com/2020/08/07/first-amendment-protections-in-k-12-schools-not-restricted-to-only-core-political-speech/ 2A: Article discusses gun rights of the formerly mentally ill - should a teenage girl who spent time in a psychiatric hospital for an eating disorder be forever barred from owning a firearm? https://reason.com/2020/08/06/second-amendment-rights-of-the-successfully-treated-former-mentally-ill/ 6A: COVID-restricted proceedings with spectators watching on streamed video comports with Public Trial Clause (federal judge, Alabama) https://reason.com/2020/08/11/public-trial-clause-not-violated-by-having-spectators-observe-via-live-video-and-audio/ 8A: Louisiana Supreme Court declines to intervene in case where defendant got a life sentence for stealing a pair of hedge clippers (he had priors) https://www.npr.org/2020/08/05/899525589/louisiana-supreme-court-wont-review-life-sentence-for-man-who-stole-hedge-clippe 14A Equal Protection: allowing dining but not weddings at COVID-restricted restaurant is unconstitutional selective enforcement (federal judge, NY) https://reason.com/2020/08/08/limiting-weddings-at-restaurants-while-allowing-ordinary-dining-at-restaurants-violates-equal-protection/ Two North Carolina judges create free, online course about the U.S. Constitution for high school students https://www.wfmynews2.com/article/news/nc-judges-creating-free-online-constitution-class/83-a2a8570e-b781-441a-84ff-58216a97df7d Constitutional Problems Will Abound If Universal Mail-In Balloting Ordered for November Election8/5/2020
1A, Equal Protection, Due Process: federal judge finds voters were disenfranchised and orders New York to count mail-in ballots that were not postmarked or arrived late in June congressional primary. What a mess!
https://nypost.com/2020/08/04/judge-orders-new-york-state-to-count-invalidated-mail-in-ballots/ 1A: Sixth Circuit upholds Ohio law requiring in-person collection of ballot petition signatures, despite pandemic https://reason.com/2020/08/03/sixth-circuit-rejects-covid-based-challenge-to-ballot-access-laws/ 1A: prosecutors to drop condition of release ‘don’t attend any more protests’ in Oregon cases (the constitutional question is complicated) https://reason.com/2020/08/01/no-protest-condition-will-be-dropped-for-people-facing-federal-charges-in-portland-demonstrations/ 1A: President’s executive order on social media does not give private right of action when account targeted https://reason.com/2020/07/31/no-claim-against-facebook-based-on-presidents-social-media-executive-order/ Free Expression: UK Muslims throw Christian woman to the ground for criticizing Islam https://www.jihadwatch.org/2020/07/video-from-the-uk-muslims-assault-christian-woman-for-criticizing-islam 1A/2A: California uses red flag law to take gun from man who ‘posted racist rhetoric and propaganda online’ (predictions of future dangerousness from people whose politics we don’t like? WOW! Sounds like a European speech code to me.) https://reason.com/2020/07/30/gun-seized-apparently-for-being-a-racist-group-leader/ 2A: “Gun Stores Have Standing to Raise Their Customers' Second Amendment Rights” (4th Circuit) https://reason.com/2020/08/03/gun-stores-have-standing-to-raise-their-customers-second-amendment-rights/ 14A Due Process: Kansas Supreme Court strikes down state knife statute as vague and overbroad - what is a “dangerous or deadly cutting instrument of like character”? https://reason.com/2020/07/29/kansas-knife-statute-held-unconstitutionally-vague/ Shame and Kudos - Shame! on two entire NBA teams for taking a knee during the National Anthem and Kudos! to the two NHL teams who stood for the Anthem at season openers https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/07/every-nba-millionaire-knelt-national-anthem-season-opener-every-single-nhl-hockey-player-stood-anthem-opener/ Discrimination: Fall-out begins from Supreme Court’s atrocious transgender / sexual orientation decision - ACLU sues to force Catholic hospital to perform transgender surgery; more implications for free speech, women’s athletics, parental rights to pass on their values, etc.
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/tyler-o-neil/2020/07/23/aclu-sues-to-force-catholic-hospital-to-perform-transgender-surgery-citing-gorsuch-decision-n675924 Emergency Powers: Supreme Court defers to public health authorities again, decides against churches a second time on COVID restrictions https://www.vox.com/2020/7/25/21338216/supreme-court-churches-pandemic-covid-samuel-alito-brett-kavanaugh-calvary-chapel 1A: federal judge tosses prosecution for harassment emails sent to Mitch McConnell; rejects government’s argument speech was ‘integral to criminal conduct’ https://reason.com/2020/07/28/harassing-e-mail-to-sen-mcconnell-cant-be-punished-as-speech-integral-to-criminal-conduct/ 1A: Chinese student sues Fordham for barring him from campus for Instagram post implying gun ownership can prevent Tiananmen Square-style massacres https://www.oann.com/chinese-student-sues-fordham-university/ 1A: Pro-Trump women’s group sues de Blasio over refusal to grant permission to paint a street mural; Mayor’s initial response - ‘Black Lives Matter transcends politics’ https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/07/women-america-first-file-lawsuit-request-paint-blm-style-street-mural-nyc-denied/ 2A: “5,000 guns stolen in first week of June, alone. Still think background checks are going to keep guns out of criminal hands?” (h/t VCDL) https://bearingarms.com/tomk/2020/07/20/among-other-crimes-gun-store-robberies-spike/ 2A: “Who needs more than 10 shots? Female Cop Shoots at a Knife Attacker 14 Times” (h/t VCDL) https://bearingarms.com/tomk/2020/07/20/among-other-crimes-gun-store-robberies-spike/ 4A: “The Fourth Amendment does not require officers to knock and announce their presence before entering an open door.” (son left front door to defendant’s house open) (8th Circuit) https://ecf.ca8.uscourts.gov/opndir/20/07/182976P.pdf 8A: Courts, not sheriffs, get to set conditions of release; sheriff can’t hold people after they make bail, or make up other conditions (7th Circuit) http://media.ca7.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/rssExec.pl?Submit=Display&Path=Y2020/D07-23/C:19-2108:J:Hamilton:aut:T:fnOp:N:2551529:S:0 Electoral College: federal appeals court upholds time-honored ‘winner-take-all’ system for South Carolina’s votes in Electoral College; declines to institute proportional results (4th Circuit) https://www.ca4.uscourts.gov/opinions/191297.P.pdf Shame! Two women’s pro basketball teams walk off the court when the National Anthem is played. I suggest you relocate to the economic basket case of your choice - I hear Venezuela, Zimbabwe, and North Korea are nice this time of year. If you’re not willing to do that, then thank your lucky stars you live in America. https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/07/america-hating-wnba-players-ny-liberty-seattle-storm-walk-off-court-protest-national-anthem-played-video/ Kudos! Camp Constitution has record turn-out this year - congratulations! https://campconstitution.net/camp-constitutions-12-annual-family-camp-largest-turnout-in-our-history/ Discrimination: Christian adoption agency beats New York in court; state tried to shut agency down for its beliefs on marriage; hostility to religion rationale prevailed (2nd Circuit) (LGBT rights v. religious liberty is the battleground today)
https://www.lifenews.com/2020/07/21/christian-adoption-agency-wins-legal-battle-against-new-york-which-is-trying-to-shut-it-down/ 1A: Yes, conduct can be speech but this is ridiculous - “Protester claims lighting Molotov cocktail protected by First Amendment” https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/jul/16/jarrett-pace-claims-lighting-molotov-cocktail-prot/ Free Expression: Amazon, Dems on Capitol Hill try to bury free speech documentary. #RiseOfTheAuthoritarianLeft https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/07/ironically-proving-point-amazon-bans-censorship-documentary-killing-free-speech/ Free Expression: Cornell law prof faces coordinated campaign to get him fired for daring to criticize Black Lives Matter; supporters afraid to speak up https://www.dailysignal.com/2020/07/20/im-a-law-professor-heres-what-happened-after-i-spoke-out-on-black-lives-matter/ Free Expression: Fordham bars Chinese-American student from campus, demands he be re-educated after he holds gun in Instagram photo about the Tiananmen Square massacre https://www.thefire.org/fordham-student-on-campus-probation-for-instagram-photo-holding-a-gun-memorializing-tiananmen-square-massacre/ State Constitution: Michigan Supreme Court rules seizure of entire value of a property to collect $8.41 in delinquent property taxes is an unconstitutional taking calling for just compensation https://reason.com/2020/07/17/michigan-supreme-court-rules-government-cant-seize-entire-value-of-property-over-property-tax-delinquency-worth-8-41/ 14A: prisoners have a protected liberty interest in not being kept in solitary confinement for 4 years (4th Circuit) https://www.ca4.uscourts.gov/opinions/187313.P.pdf Slides and videos available from law professor’s Constitutional Law class https://reason.com/2020/07/20/12-modules-for-constitutional-law-i-structure/ + https://reason.com/2020/07/21/16-modules-for-constitutional-law-ii-rights-and-equal-protection/ + https://reason.com/2020/07/22/7-modules-for-first-amendment-speech-and-religion/ Print your own Constitution booklet at home for free https://constitutionbooklet.com/ The Citadel military college in South Carolina (unlike other schools in the state) will follow state law and require all cadets to study the Constitution https://www.dailysignal.com/2020/07/21/citadel-will-require-all-cadets-to-study-constitution/ Supreme Court Rules Religious Schools Free to Hire Who They Want (Constitution news round-up)7/15/2020
1A: Supreme Court rules government cannot interfere with teacher hiring decisions in religious schools
https://www.lifenews.com/2020/07/08/supreme-court-upholds-right-of-christian-schools-to-hire-christian-teachers/ Electoral College: Supreme Court shoots down ‘faithless electors’, rules states can force electors to follow popular vote (this will cut both ways) https://americanmilitarynews.com/2020/07/supreme-court-allows-states-to-force-electors-to-support-popular-vote-candidate/ 14A Fundamental Rights: Supreme Court breathes new life into Indiana abortion ultrasound law, paving the way for arguments on constitutionality https://www.lifenews.com/2020/07/02/supreme-court-reverses-ruling-that-overturned-indiana-law-saving-babies-from-abortion/ 1A: Supreme Court turns away challenges to state speech curbs around abortion clinics https://www.lifenews.com/2020/07/02/supreme-court-lets-laws-ban-pro-life-people-from-sidewalk-counseling-at-abortion-clinics/ 1A: Judicial Watch sues D.C. over Black Lives Matter street mural; if the streets are now a public forum, all viewpoints must be allowed https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/jul/1/dc-sued-over-black-lives-matter-painted-city-stree/ Free Expression: “Letter signed by J.K. Rowling, Noam Chomsky warning of stifled free speech draws mixed reviews” https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/07/08/letter-harpers-free-speech/ + https://harpers.org/a-letter-on-justice-and-open-debate/ Free Expression: Multiple leftist groups gang up to try to get Young Conservatives booted from Texas campus https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/07/college-democrats-satanists-witches-team-shut-young-conservatives-texas-chapter/ Free Expression: Multiple leftist groups gang up to demand UPitt fire any employee they say is racist https://freebeacon.com/campus/students-demand-pitt-eliminate-free-speech-protections/ Free Expression: Harvard prof in the cross-hairs for research on police shootings https://jonathanturley.org/2020/07/09/harvard-professor-under-fire-in-latest-attack-on-free-speech/ 2A: GOP lawmakers ask Justice Department to defend St. Louis couple whose guns were confiscated after defending their home against protesters https://www.dailysignal.com/2020/07/13/gop-lawmakers-urge-attorney-general-to-defend-st-louis-couples-gun-rights-after-firearm-confiscation/ State Constitutions: Virginia judge rules 18-to-20-year-olds have a right to buy handguns https://reason.com/2020/07/14/18-to-20-year-olds-have-a-right-to-buy-handguns/ 14A: shackling the defendant in front of the jury undermines the presumption of innocence (6th Circuit) https://www.opn.ca6.uscourts.gov/opinions.pdf/20a0197p-06.pdf Discrimination: California court allows challenge to state corporate board gender quotas to go forward https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-releases/jw-victory-ca-gender/ Dormant Commerce Clause - California’s ban on foie gras comes tumbling down https://usanewssite.com/life/foie-gras-can-again-be-sold-in-california-judge-rules/ Economic Freedom - new Florida law repeals or relaxes occupational license restrictions for 30 trades including hair braiders and interior designers (momentous; there has never been such a wholesale retraction) https://ij.org/press-release/governor-signs-bill-making-it-easier-for-floridians-to-work/ Survey: liberals want to rewrite Constitution to impose race quotas to control the history you are taught, the art you are allowed to see, etc. Give Me Diversity or Give Me Death! https://thefederalist.com/2020/06/26/survey-most-u-s-liberals-want-to-rewrite-constitution-impose-race-quotas-on-history-classes-and-museums/ Shame!
1A Religion: Supreme Court rules states cannot bar religious schools from scholarship programs; case involves Montana, but 38 states have similar laws.
https://www.npr.org/2020/06/30/883074890/supreme-court-montana-cant-exclude-religious-schools-from-scholarship-program 14A Fundamental Rights: Supreme Court strikes down Louisiana law requiring abortion doctors to have hospital admitting privileges https://www.kltv.com/2020/06/29/supreme-court-strikes-down-louisiana-abortion-clinic-law/ Separation of Powers: Supreme Court rules CFPB director whom President cannot fire is unconstitutional, but lets agency stand https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/06/29/supreme-court-rules-law-creating-director-of-cfpb-unconstitutional-severs-removal-clause-retains-agency/ 1A: Bill to ban hate speech from social media is still pending in New York (the drumbeat to outlaw hate speech is growing louder) https://reason.com/2020/07/01/n-y-state-bill-to-ban-hate-speech-from-social-media/ Free Expression: House Dems harassing conservative nonprofits (again); demand years of communications from 23 nonprofits with Marathon Petroleum on rollback of Obama-era fuel efficiency mandates https://www.wsj.com/articles/ramping-up-the-speech-intimidation-11593381524?mod=opinion_lead_pos3 2A: federal judge strikes down Jackson, Mississippi’s open carry ban; open carry legal in the state https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/06/17/district-judge-strikes-down-mississippi-mayors-open-carry-ban/ Separation of Powers: it’s OK for federal courts to adjudicate intrabranch disputes between federal agencies when at least one agency is independent https://reason.com/2020/06/30/when-one-federal-agency-sues-another-in-federal-court/ State Constitutions: California pro-affirmative action amendment to be decided by ballot in November election; critics say it would legalize racism and sexism https://www.mrctv.org/blog/ca-senate-democrats-votes-remove-anti-discrimination-amendment-state-constitution Shame!
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2020/06/29/lone-national-womens-soccer-player-shows-real-courage-by-standing-during-national-anthem-940641 Separation of Powers - After Supreme Court defeat, the Trump administration said it will try again to end the DACA program within 6 months
https://www.oann.com/white-house-plans-to-end-daca-within-next-six-months/ Gentle Reminder: Incitement to riot is not protected by the First Amendment https://reason.com/2020/06/23/prosecution-for-incitement-to-riot/ 1A: Woke Georgetown students declare ‘oppressive language is violence’, blah-blah https://www.mrctv.org/blog/catholic-georgetown-declares-oppressive-language-violence-includes-theistic-language 1A: prisoner’s claim against prison officials for hijacking correspondence with his lawyer survives motion to dismiss https://www.ca4.uscourts.gov/opinions/187340.P.pdf 1A: California law prohibiting the publication of Hollywood stars’ ages and birthdates is unconstitutional (9th Circuit) https://reason.com/2020/06/20/ninth-circuit-strikes-down-statute-limiting-imdbs-display-of-actor-ages/ 1A / RLUIPA - California court OK’s restrictions on church to help city create “a street of fun” even though nursing homes and post offices operate downtown unimpeded https://www.lifenews.com/2020/06/17/court-says-california-city-can-keep-churches-closed-over-coronavirus-but-massive-protests-are-ok/ 2A: Johns Hopkins report on Baltimore finds that arresting people on gun charges does nothing to lower crime https://bearingarms.com/came/2020/06/13/johns-hopkins-report-on-baltimore-homicides-is-bad-news-for-gun-control-fans/ 4A: Continuous non-stop surveillance of house by camera is constitutional (1st Circuit) http://media.ca1.uscourts.gov/pdf.opinions/19-1582P-01A.pdf 4A: Yikes! 7th Circuit affirms lower court ruling that hanging a tree-shaped air freshener from your rearview mirror justifies a traffic stop and any evidence seized is fair game. http://media.ca7.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/rssExec.pl?Submit=Display&Path=Y2020/D06-17/C:19-2928:J:St__Eve:aut:T:fnOp:N:2532217:S:0 State Constitutions: New Mexico Supreme Court denies privacy claim, upholds warrantless grand jury subpoenas for personal banking records https://ladailypost.com/new-mexico-supreme-court-rules-on-state-constitutional-privacy-protections-for-banking-records/ 5A: phone decryption issue likely headed to Supreme Court after Indiana Supreme Court rules defendants can’t be compelled to incriminate themselves by order to unlock their phones https://reason.com/2020/06/24/indiana-supreme-court-creates-a-clear-split-on-compelled-decryption-and-the-fifth-amendment/ 14A: Clarence Thomas dissent rejects incorporation doctrine and concludes free speech is protected from state restrictions by the Privileges or Immunities clause https://reason.com/2020/06/22/justice-thomas-concludes-that-the-freedom-of-speech-is-a-privilege-or-immunity-under-the-14th-amendment/ Shame! Ignorant ingrates tear down George Washington statue in Portland, wrap it in burning U.S. flag https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/06/19/portland-george-washington-statue-torn-down-draped-in-burning-u-s-flag/ |
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