Gun-Quake in Virginia! 20+ Locales Declare Second Amendment Sanctuaries (Constitution news round-up)

Gun-Quake in Virginia! - 23 locales declare Second Amendment sanctuaries after blue wave election; more expected
https://www.gunsamerica.com/digest/20-virginia-counties-2a-sanctuaries/

2A: less to gun sanctuaries than meets the eye; symbolic resolutions that don’t have any teeth and won’t stop enforcement of state or federal gun laws
https://mises.org/wire/second-amendment-sanctuaries-rhetoric-vs-reality
 
2A: “Olympic Venezuelan Shooter: Banning Guns Is the First Step of Socialism”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lviMNTTPHqo&feature=share

Separation of Powers: Financially-interested refugee resettlement agencies sue Trump administration over executive order empowering locales to decline refugees; argue statute only provides for consultation
https://wamu.org/story/19/11/26/trump-administration-sued-by-refugee-advocates-over-executive-order/

1A: No, the n-word is not “obscenity”.  Federal judge allows lawsuit by student barred from graduation ceremony for prior use of the word.
https://reason.com/2019/11/19/barred-from-participating-in-public-high-school-graduation-for-using-nigger-in-a-tweet/
 
Free Expression: Merkel’s Muddle - ‘we have to curb free speech or society will no longer be free.’ Huh? Sure, and work is freedom - Sieg Heil!
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/11/stunning-globalist-angela-merkel-to-german-parliament-we-have-to-take-away-your-freedom-of-speech-or-we-wont-be-free/

4A: Fourth Circuit upholds conviction of sex trafficker whose electronic devices were seized and searched on re-entry through JFK airport; evidence fails ‘border search’ exception but come in under ‘good faith’ exception
http://www.ca4.uscourts.gov/opinions/174109.P.pdf
 
5A Due Process: authorities did not interfere with terror suspect’s right to travel when they subjected him to advance screening, prolonged questioning, and multiple searches (5th Circuit)
https://www.ca10.uscourts.gov/opinions/18/18-4078.pdf

5A Eminent Domain: legal foundation takes up case where police destroyed house in course of an arrest and denied property owner compensation
https://reason.com/2019/12/04/institute-for-justice-takes-up-case-where-federal-court-ruled-government-owes-no-compensation-to-innocent-property-owner-whose-house-was-destroyed-by-police/

10A: feds object to restrictions on ICE arrests at state courthouses
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/washington-secrets/justice-and-dhs-reject-state-restrictions-on-ice-arrests-at-state-courthouses

14A Equal Protection - second challenge filed to California’s gender quota law forcing companies to put women on their boards of directors
https://www.theepochtimes.com/businessman-sues-california-over-sex-based-corporate-affirmative-action_3149003.html

Discrimination: Texas arrangement to allow death row inmates access to state-employed spiritual advisors just prior to execution discriminates against Buddhists because the state doesn’t employ a Buddhist advisor (5th Circuit).
http://www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub/19/19-70020-CV0.pdf

Electoral College: “California Dems Flood Colorado With Cash Ahead of National Popular Vote Referendum”
https://freebeacon.com/politics/california-dems-flood-colorado-with-cash-ahead-of-national-popular-vote-referendum/
 
Antifederalists prescient in foreseeing runaway Supreme Court and unchecked expansion of federal power through innocuous language like the ‘general welfare’ and ‘necessary and proper’ clauses
https://fee.org/articles/the-antifederalists-were-eerily-prophetic/

Panel discusses the 3 co-equal branches and separation of powers - executive privilege v. congressional oversight, and what should courts decide
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDHJfOCUNw4&feature=emb_logo

Shame on Mayor Pete for joining the Reconquista!  You’re running for President of these United States and you’re pandering to people who don’t want there to be a United States? Good grief! #NotMyPresident
https://twitter.com/arthurschwartz/status/1201286673486766080

Kudos to Melania Trump for defending the right of Baltimore teens to boo her
https://6abc.com/politics/melania-trump-booed-by-teens-at-baltimore-school/5721909/