LGBT Face-Off with Religious Liberty: Adoption Agency Prevails Over New York on Marriage Views (Constitution news round-up)

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/
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https://reason.com/2020/07/21/16-modules-for-constitutional-law-ii-rights-and-equal-protection/
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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/