Trump says Sotomayor and Ginsburg should recuse themselves for political bias (Constitution news round-up)

It’s Not Fair, Change the Rules - Why We Have the Electoral College (new article)
https://www.potomacteaparty.com/harrison-electoral-college.html

Trump says Supreme Court Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg should recuse themselves from any cases involving him or his administration because of the hostile political opinions against him they have expressed.  
https://www.theepochtimes.com/trump-calls-for-recusal-of-supreme-court-justices-sotomayor-and-ginsburg_3250477.html

Trump Flips 9th Circuit - Sea-Change in Opinions Coming
https://reason.com/2020/02/23/veteran-ninth-circuit-judges-complain-to-l-a-times-about-new-ninth-circuit-judges/

Separation of Powers: Second Circuit allows Justice Department to block federal funds to sanctuary jurisdictions, finding that Congress had delegated authority to place conditions on the grants in question
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/484715-appeals-court-rules-trump-administration-can-withhold-grants-from

5A: federal court rules border patrol holding cells unfit for stays longer than a few hours
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2020/02/20/Judge-Tucson-CBP-facilities-violate-Constitution/8371582182752/

Amendments: 5 states that rescinded their ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment sue to block its adoption into the Constitution
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/gop-led-states-seek-block-equal-rights-amendment-69121903

14 Equal Protection: Florida cannot ‘re-disenfranchise’ felons for nonpayment of fines after state constitution was changed to restore their voting rights (11th Circuit panel)
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/feb/19/appeals-court-upholds-florida-amendment-restoring-/

1A Religion: Supreme Court takes case testing whether Philadelphia can exclude Catholic agency from its foster care program because it refuses to place children with same-sex couples
https://freebeacon.com/issues/supreme-court-to-decide-if-faith-based-foster-care-must-work-with-gay-couples/?utm_source=actengage&utm_campaign=FreedomMail&utm_medium=email

Discrimination: Supreme Court turns away appeal of Seventh-day Adventist who asked Walgreens for a guarantee he would never have to work on Saturday
https://www.theepochtimes.com/supreme-court-declines-to-review-suit-against-walgreens-over-religious-discrimination_3248643.html

2A: New Mexico Governor signs red-flag law, tells sheriffs to enforce it or resign
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/feb/25/michelle-lujan-grisham-signs-red-flag-gun-bill-tel/

1A: federal judge rules Chicago can’t keep Christian students from evangelizing in public park
https://www.dailysignal.com/2020/02/25/judge-rules-chicago-cant-ban-christian-students-from-evangelizing/
 
1A: students sue Wisconsin high school after being told not to wear T-shirts depicting guns
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wisconsin-schools-ban-shirts-depicting-guns-prompts-federal/story?id=69175774
 
5A Eminent Domain: another Hurricane Harvey case goes the other way, because the deliberate flooding this time occurred when a reservoir went over capacity (cause-in-fact: government’s actions made no difference to the outcome)
https://reason.com/2020/02/19/federal-court-rules-against-plaintiffs-in-second-hurricane-harvey-takings-case/

8A Cruel and Unusual: Supreme Court nixed most life-without-parole sentences for minors, but effective life sentence of 3 consecutive 30-year terms is perfectly OK (8th Circuit in triple murder case)
https://ecf.ca8.uscourts.gov/opndir/20/02/191239P.pdf

Georgetown Law starts constitutional book series
https://www.law.georgetown.edu/news/georgetown-laws-center-for-the-constitution-launches-the-constitutional-discourse-series/

Follow along in the Declaration of Independence, trace its origins in Greco-Roman natural law theory, and be inspired by the Founders’ travails to pluck up your courage for the fights ahead
https://www.theunitedwest.org/2020/01/08/tom-trento-radio-crisis-as-a-culture-constitution-nationalism-and-the-u-s-a/