Climate Kids’ case tossed for lack of standing (Constitution news round-up)

5A Fundamental Rights: Climate Kids’ case tossed for lack of standing; to seek en banc review in the 9th Circuit
https://reason.com/2020/01/20/kids-climate-plaintiffs-to-seek-rehearing-en-banc/

2A: Virginia Supreme Court upholds ban on guns at rally after Governor declares state of emergency; ‘safety and welfare’ trump Second Amendment
https://www.whsv.com/content/news/Organizers-appeal-Virginia-rally-gun-ban-6-now-arrested-567077051.html

• Add Florida to Kentucky and South Carolina as places where Virginia’s Gun-Quake has inspired sanctuary actions elsewhere
  https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/jan/16/virginia-democrats-gun-control-push-spurs-second-a/
• July 2018: “26 Illinois counties have passed ‘gun sanctuary’ resolutions.”
  http://www.pjstar.com/news/20180708/26-illinois-counties-have-passed-gun-sanctuary-resolutions-are-they-constitutional

Amendments: Virginia legislature passes Equal Rights Amendment, Governor to sign; battle over whether the ERA has been duly ratified is set to begin
https://www.npr.org/2020/01/15/796754345/virginia-ratifies-the-equal-rights-amendment-decades-after-deadline

1A Religion: Supreme Court to consider whether ban on use of state education tax credits for religious schools keeps government out of religion or discriminates against religion
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-takes-church-state-separation-christian-schools-case-n1117006

Electoral College: Supreme Court to take up ‘faithless electors’ issue
https://www.wsj.com/articles/supreme-court-to-consider-whether-presidential-electors-can-vote-for-candidate-not-chosen-in-state-popular-vote-11579293850?mod=hp_lead_pos7

• New Hampshire bill would withhold popular vote totals in presidential elections until after Electoral College meets (this makes perfect sense; the Electoral College was one of the inducements offered to small states to get them to join the union)
  https://www.dailysignal.com/2020/01/14/new-hampshire-is-fighting-back-to-defend-the-electoral-college/
  
  

14A Fundamental Rights: 8 cities to become sanctuaries for the unborn if the Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade
https://www.oann.com/growing-number-of-texas-cities-vote-to-become-sanctuary-cities-for-the-unborn/

1A: Oregon Appeals Court hears arguments in Christian bakers same-sex wedding cake case after ordered by Supreme Court to revisit in light of Masterpiece ruling against hostility to religion
https://www.dailysignal.com/2020/01/15/christian-bakers-challenge-135k-fine-for-quoting-bible-verse/

Commerce Clause: mosques are not in ‘interstate commerce’ nor do they affect it; federal arson conviction vacated (6th Circuit)
https://www.opn.ca6.uscourts.gov/opinions.pdf/20a0017p-06.pdf

1A: challenge to Michigan hate speech database initiative survives state’s motion to dismiss
https://www.americanfreedomlawcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Order-Denying-Motion.pdf

Shame! on the Democratic county board member in North Carolina who threatened to call the police after audience stages impromptu recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance
https://www.westernjournal.com/dem-official-threatens-call-cops-pledge-allegiance-recited/