Alaska Constitutional Law Laws 
Constitutional Law Reporter
MAY 24, 2021
In Alaska v. In 2009, an Alaska jury convicted Sean Wright of 13 counts of sexual abuse of a minor. Wright finished serving his sentence in Alaska in 2016, and shortly thereafter he moved to Tennessee. Once there, he failed to register as a sex offender as required by federal law. Wright , 593 U.S. _ (2021), the U.S.
JonathanTurley
FEBRUARY 19, 2022
Rakoff came up with a curious legal version of a palindrome in the defamation trial of former Alaska governor and vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin v. Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University. Here is the column: In a trial in New York, federal judge Jed S.
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JonathanTurley
MARCH 2, 2022
District Judge Jed Rakoff has issued a stinging rebuke to former Alaska Gov. The Court continues to have great confidence in the integrity of the jury’s verdict, notwithstanding that a few jurors became aware, involuntarily, of the bare fact that the Court intended to dismiss the case as a matter of law.” Senior U.S.
JonathanTurley
MARCH 11, 2022
They have sought to negate state election laws and impose their own federal election standards on states. Before and after the ERA was passed by Congress in 1972, a variety of state and federal laws have been passed to enforce prohibitions on discrimination on the basis for gender and enforce equality rules in pay, promotions and programs.
SCOTUSBlog
MARCH 25, 2025
Last year, the justices took a major step to weaken the power of administrative agencies when they overturned the Chevron doctrine, which significantly curtailed the power of agencies to interpret the laws they implement. Congress, the coalition asserts, has outlined the controlling general policies that are the basis for the law.
SCOTUSBlog
DECEMBER 31, 2022
From legendary lawyers to lesser-known activists, journalists, and plaintiffs, the following individuals who died in 2022 all shaped the court and the law in their own ways. In 1973, Beckwith was a recent graduate of law school and was working as a political reporter for TIME magazine. Read past years’ remembrances: 2021 , 2020.
JonathanTurley
FEBRUARY 18, 2022
Most recently, after numerous efforts to dismiss the case, The New York Times found itself in court defending an editorial that bizarrely appeared to blame former Alaska Gov. ” What we really need is an airing out – not of the constitutional standard but of its application to non-public officials. Devin Nunes, R-Calif.
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