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US appeals court throws out Mississippi Jim Crow era felon disenfranchisement law

JURIST

The US Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Friday that an 1890 state constitutional provision permanently preventing people convicted of certain felonies from voting, Section 241, is unconstitutional. This end-justifies-means analysis has no place in constitutional law.”

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Supreme Court to Clarify What Constitutes Identity Theft

Constitutional Law Reporter

The Supreme Court granted certiorari on November 22, 2022. The post Supreme Court to Clarify What Constitutes Identity Theft appeared first on Constitutional Law Reporter. A jury found Dubin guilty of one charge of healthcare fraud and aggravated identity theft.

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California Dreaming: Newsom’s Kidnapping Claim Against DeSantis is Long on Politics and Short on the Law

JonathanTurley

” The problem, however, is that this is just like the transport of migrants to Martha’s Vineyard in September 2022, which a number of Democratic leaders and legal experts insisted was also a clear case of kidnapping and human trafficking. .” Newsom added in the tweet: “You small, pathetic man.

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Doctors and families with transgender children seek injunction against Alabama bill criminalizing gender-affirming care to minors

JURIST

Two doctors joined two parents on behalf of their minor children to file a complaint Tuesday in federal court against the governor and the district attorneys of Alabama, Shelby County, and Jefferson County, to block Alabama’s Vulnerable Child Compassion and Protection Act (“VCCPA”) from going into effect on May 8, 2022.

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Justice Barrett Gives Illinois Officials Until Monday to Respond to Challenge of “Assault Weapons” Ban

JonathanTurley

Bruen (2022). Rickey Kanter was convicted of one count of felony mail fraud for defrauding Medicare in connection with therapeutic shoe inserts. Heller (2008)…and New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Her dissent in Kanter v. Barr as an appellate judge was a powerful defense of Second Amendment rights.

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Emory Law Professor Denounces the Late Antonin Scalia as “Basically a Klansman”

JonathanTurley

His victim was white Atlanta Police Officer Frank Schlatt and the jury found that both the felony murder and the killing of a police officer were “aggravating circumstances” that justified the death penalty. Both felony murder and the killing of an officer are commonly used as aggravating circumstances in capital cases. ”

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Hunter Biden’s 7% Solution: Using Addiction to Excuse Corruption

JonathanTurley

In 2022, I wrote: “The president and the press have been shifting to a new defense. Rather than prosecuting Hunter Biden for a felony in lying on a federal gun form, it is sending him into a diversion program due to an addiction that he says he was able to break years ago. He overcame it.

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