Colorado goes after Masterpiece baker AGAIN (Constitution news round-up)

1A Religion: Colorado goes after Masterpiece baker AGAIN, this time for refusing to make special pink-and-blue transgender celebration cake.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2018/08/15/colorado-targets-christian-baker-again-despite-supreme-courts-cake-ruling/?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTlRabU16RXlObVJqWkRZNCIsInQiOiJWXC9mNlg0Q0RCSGR6b094NnM0eEF3OGFLdDNzYzNuQmx5aldBbmhuWnQ5WUZoXC9LanFFcVRjWDE2ZzRmSW93Z3BQR1J4NmVDajZwTVMzTGd6OVRrUXZWRzNsb1hVUmpHemduWE1qZ2NqQ2FSUHZsR1FJSnRkSng0TkVSN0RNajF3In0%3D
 
Appointments Clause: federal judge upholds Mueller Special Counsel investigation as stemming from valid appointment, despite extraordinary powers that would seem to call for Senate confirmation
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/aug/13/judge-rules-mueller-investigation-legal/
 
5A Due Process: 9th Circuit rules foreigners outside the U.S. are protected by the Constitution. Implications include border agents shooting across the border.
http://www.0censor.com/9th-circuit-court-rules-foreigners-outside-us-constitutional-protection/

5A Due Process: 19 state Attorneys General demand constitutionally protected right to abortion for illegal immigrants
http://www.lifenews.com/2018/08/08/19-attorneys-general-and-planned-parenthood-demand-right-to-abortion-for-illegal-immigrants/
 
1A: federal judge orders anonymous online account information of a 2017 Charlottesville ‘Unite the Right’ organizer be given to another court; anonymity and incitement of violence are issues.
https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/do-digital-service-users-have-a-right-to-remain-anonymous
 
1A, Economic Freedom: federal judge strikes down Charleston’s tour guide licensing requirement as interference with right to speak for a living
https://ij.org/press-release/federal-judge-strikes-down-charlestons-licensing-requirement-for-tour-guides/
 
1A Speech/Association: U of Iowa shuts down 38 student groups that have faith or ideology requirements for their leaders, gets sued, reverses course while litigation pending
https://pjmedia.com/trending/university-of-iowa-deregisters-38-student-groups-amid-battle-over-faith-requirements-for-leadership/
+ https://www.dailysignal.com/2018/08/08/christian-student-group-sues-university-for-rejecting-it-as-official-club/?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiT0dReE16azJNekJsWkRCbCIsInQiOiJBbWlDc2EyVURTZENVblFnYWJhSE9VR2h1RTdQSXliVVJJVHYyXC9EUUV4Q1NjSVdSSnpXYXc0OXA5dkxtaldGbURvb1ZySU9HNkc4MzR4Q3hDUDZJS0o5ZWpnWitDZmNGVzZRdTZVSURxTzNDOUdPZWFFeVNoYzVWUlVvMnpxZ2MifQ%3D%3D
Query: How does it discriminate if everybody gets their own group and chooses their own leaders?

1A: U.S. appeals court strikes Louisiana statute against threatening public officials as unconstitutionally overbroad; sweeps in lawful actions like threatening to sue
http://www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub/17/17-30667-CV0.pdf

1A Press: de Blasio bodyguards eject reporter who tried to ask question at parade event
https://freebeacon.com/politics/de-blasio-bodyguards-remove-reporter-attempting-ask-questions/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=caaa50e87d-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_03_19_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-caaa50e87d-45628225
 
1A Religion: male Muslim prisoner objects to strip-search by transgender (anatomically female) guard.  Intersectionality pretzel:  Does transgender trump Muslim, or is it vice versa in the pantheon of rights?
http://reason.com/volokh/2018/08/15/muslim-male-inmate-objects-to-strip-sear

1A Religion: What is a religion? Pussy Church of Modern Witchcraft gets special tax exemption from IRS as a church
http://reason.com/volokh/2018/08/13/the-lesbian-anti-transgender-pussy-churc
 
2A Hypocrisy Exposed – former congressional candidate in Georgia who pushed gun control shoots her campaign treasurer dead
http://thefederalist.com/2018/08/13/former-gun-control-candidate-charged-shooting-campaign-treasurer/
 
5A: Threat to property rights from conservation easements is growing
https://americanpolicy.org/2018/08/07/conservation-easements-and-land-trusts-the-ultimate-faustian-marriage/?utm_source=American+Policy+Center&utm_campaign=9822c865c6-APC11DNC3_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_79a5ca421e-9822c865c6-258236649&mc_cid=9822c865c6&mc_eid=e8790ccc77

5A: watch short video on sustainable development’s war on private property
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=13&v=Gc0NoPmI3Ms

5A: another federal court rejects claim that competition from Uber and Lyft is a “taking” of property from taxis
http://reason.com/volokh/2018/08/08/yet-another-federal-court-rejects-claims

Eminent Domain: South African farmer discusses impending change to constitution to allow government to expropriate land from white people without compensation to give to black people (video)
https://www.facebook.com/tiaan.theron.12/videos/1024869621015264/

14A,8A: homeowner fights  ordinance requiring her to grow grass in her yard even though she’s allergic. $180K fine, 20 yrs in prison.  Precedent recognizes government’s ‘aesthetic interest’
https://www.dailysignal.com/2018/08/06/bureaucrats-want-to-make-a-woman-with-a-grass-allergy-grow-a-lawn-shes-fighting-back/?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiT0dReE16azJNekJsWkRCbCIsInQiOiJBbWlDc2EyVURTZENVblFnYWJhSE9VR2h1RTdQSXliVVJJVHYyXC9EUUV4Q1NjSVdSSnpXYXc0OXA5dkxtaldGbURvb1ZySU9HNkc4MzR4Q3hDUDZJS0o5ZWpnWitDZmNGVzZRdTZVSURxTzNDOUdPZWFFeVNoYzVWUlVvMnpxZ2MifQ%3D%3D

Time to revisit second-class status of U.S. citizens of the “insular” territories (Puerto Rico, Guam)
https://www.saipantribune.com/index.php/time-for-congress-to-reassess-the-insular-cases-doctrine/

State Constitution: victims’ rights amendment urged for Pennsylvania constitution
http://www.readingeagle.com/news/article/office-group-urge-adding-victims-rights-to-pennsylvania-constitution

State Constitution: 5 former North Carolina Governors oppose amendments regarding judicial vacancies and appointments to state boards and commissions
http://www.wfae.org/post/five-former-nc-governors-oppose-pair-constitutional-amendments

“How Religion Defends Freedom”
http://www.libertylawsite.org/book-review/benjamin-constant-on-religion-and-the-values-of-a-liberal-society/

Impeachment: “The Original Meaning of “High Crimes and Misdemeanors” (2 parts)
http://www.libertylawsite.org/2018/08/08/the-original-meaning-of-high-crimes-and-misdemeanors-part-1/
+ http://www.libertylawsite.org/2018/08/09/the-original-meaning-of-high-crimes-and-misdemeanors-part-2/

“Can a Vice President be charged with a crime while in office?” (Burr, Agnew – who’s next?)
https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/can-a-vice-president-be-charged-with-a-crime-while-in-office

For the constitutionalist in your life - U.S. Constitution Full Size Four Page Reproduction. $19.95
https://www.nationalarchivesstore.org/products/u-s-constitution-full-size-4-page-reproduction

Shame! Atlanta school drops Pledge of Allegiance, adopts ‘Wolf Pack’ chant. ‘Too many kids won’t recite’ so the only answer is to give up? Hope you have a country left to have your ‘Wolf Pack’ in.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/08/09/atlanta-school-drops-pledge-allegiance-asks-students-to-instead-recite-wolf-pack-chant.html

Yo, socialists! There are reasons we don’t have a unicameral legislature and the Constitution is not easy to amend. Ever think about that?
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/09/opinion/constitution-founders-democracy-trump.html