Federal judge declares terrorist watch list unconstitutional

Shame on FEC Chair Weintraub for Trashing the Electoral College (pushback from the Champions of the Constitution Grassroots Network)
http://www.liberato.us/pushback-network.html

RBG: good luck amending the Constitution to get rid of the Electoral College
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/sep/10/justice-ruth-bader-ginsburg-calls-eliminating-elec/

5A Due Process: federal judge declares terrorist watch list unconstitutional and asks the parties for briefs on what remedy to impose. 
https://www.theepochtimes.com/federal-judge-rules-terror-watchlist-unconstitutional_3070813.html

5A Due Process: Supreme Court lifts nationwide injunction against Trump safe third country asylum rule while litigation continues
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/supreme-court-says-trump-administration-can-begin-denying-migrants-asylum-while-legal-fight-continues/2019/09/11/94b90da4-d017-11e9-8c1c-7c8ee785b855_story.html?noredirect=on

Attorney General William Barr rails against nationwide injunctions in op-ed, calls for Supreme Court to reexamine their use
https://www.wsj.com/articles/end-nationwide-injunctions-11567723072

Justice Gorsuch’s New Book: A Republic, If You Can Keep It
http://www.liberato.us/constitution-minute.html

2A: NRA sues San Francisco over ‘domestic terrorist’ designation
https://nypost.com/2019/09/10/nra-sues-san-francisco-over-terrorist-organization-declaration/

1A Religion: Residents sue San Antonio for excluding Chick-fil-A from the airport
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2019/09/09/San-Antonio-sued-for-excluding-Chick-Fil-A-from-airport/3171568076413/

1A Compelled Speech: public university can compel government employee professor to use transgenders’ preferred pronouns.
https://reason.com/2019/09/05/prof-may-be-ordered-to-refer-to-transgender-student-using-the-students-preferred-title-and-pronoun/

5A Privacy: Virginia is for Lovers who don’t want to identify their race on marriage licenses, suit alleges
https://www.richmond.com/news/virginia/government-politics/suit-filed-challenging-race-question-for-virginia-marriage-license/article_65c138c3-af57-5dda-9812-a49ac6936be2.html

“Maine set to become first state to allow ranked voting in presidential election” - practice denies victory to candidate who gets the most votes, but previously held constitutional
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/maine-to-become-the-first-state-to-allow-presidential-ranked-voting-governor-will-allow-bill-to-become-law

Separation of Powers: a judge is not a prosecutor and cannot decide to prosecute people when the D.A. refuses (Massachusetts Supreme Court)
https://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/2019/09/09/rollins-straight-pride-supreme-court-ruling/

1A: “Corporations and the First Amendment: Free Speech Rules” (#6 in Volokh video series)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=292&v=Jm6uofcQf8k

1A: You don’t have a constitutional right to shout down a speaker (federal court in Colorado)
https://reason.com/2019/09/10/shouting-down-a-speaker-isnt-lawful-activity/

Free Expression: Christian woman freed after spending 10 years on Pakistan’s death row for ‘Islamic blasphemy’ exhorts ‘stay true to your beliefs’
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/stay-true-to-your-beliefs-pakistani-woman-freed-from-death-row-releases-video
 
2A: “Leftists Said Maine's Permitless Carry Law Would Cause Chaos. Now It's the Safest State in US”
https://www.westernjournal.com/leftists-said-maines-permitless-carry-law-cause-chaos-now-safest-state-us/
 
2A: gun confiscation would be met with mass resistance, jury nullification, and violent clashes
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/democrats-gun-buy-back-plan-would-backfire-horrifically/
 
4A: “Doorbell-camera firm Ring has partnered with 400 police forces, extending surveillance concerns”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/08/28/doorbell-camera-firm-ring-has-partnered-with-police-forces-extending-surveillance-reach/

Equal Protection: children born outside the U.S. to unmarried noncitizens become citizens if the mother, but not the father, becomes a citizen.  Third Circuit: violates equal protection
https://reason.com/2019/09/06/short-circuit-a-roundup-of-recent-federal-court-decisions-18/

Claiming discrimination on the basis of Jewish ‘race’ or ‘heritage’ is a ticklish question, echoing back to the Nazis who discriminated against the Jewish ‘race’
https://reason.com/2019/09/06/is-rejecting-someone-because-of-his-jewish-blood-race-discrimination-under-title-vii-national-origin-discrimination/

The impulse toward tyranny of the majority is back.  That’s why we have a constitutional Republic and that counter-majoritarian thing called the Bill of Rights
https://thefederalist.com/2019/09/03/democrats-continue-turn-constitution/

Shame! on Arizona HOA for telling vet’s widow to paint over American flag on curb because ‘it doesn’t fit the neighborhood look’
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2019/08/04/hoa-demands-widow-paint-over-american-flag-column/1888024001/

Kudos! to the blind autistic Georgia boy who painted an American flag and sent it to the White House (President Trump sent back a nice reply)
https://www.breitbart.com/local/2019/09/03/blind-boy-who-painted-picture-of-american-flag-for-trump-receives-reply/