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The right to fear, in public: Our town square after Bruen

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Share This article is part of a symposium on the court’s decision in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Esther Sanchez-Gomez is the senior litigation attorney with Giffords Law Center. Thomas speaks passively — very much in the abstract — about the need for a handgun in case of “confrontation.”

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Police Suggest Possible Charges for Those Who Filmed Rape on Train

JonathanTurley

The law covers violent crimes, sexual assault, and assault of a child. The law requires that individuals “shall as soon as reasonably possible notify the prosecuting attorney, law enforcement, medical assistance, or other public officials.” I am unaware of such a law in Pennsylvania, but these laws are rarely enforced.

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University of Florida Bars Professors From Testifying Against New State Voting Rules

JonathanTurley

There is a troubling report in The New York Times of another free speech fight on one of our campuses. Three University of Florida political science professors have told a federal court that the university barred them from assisting plaintiffs in a challenge to the state’s new voting laws. ’s interests.”

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Term limits emerge as popular proposal at latest meeting of court-reform commission

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The commissioners first heard from Kenneth Geller, a partner at Mayer Brown, and Maureen Mahoney, a partner at Latham & Watkins, who represented the views of a group of attorneys who practice regularly in front of the Supreme Court. An 18-year term limit would mean a new justice every two years – or two appointments per presidency.

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SCOTUS Considers Pair of High-Profile First Amendment Cases

Constitutional Law Reporter

Vullo, the former Superintendent of the New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS), used her regulatory power to threaten NRA business partners and coerce them into disassociating with the NRA, in violation of its rights to free speech and equal protection. National Rifle Association of America v. Missouri In Murthy v. .”

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Take Two Puberty Blockers and Call Me in the Morning? Justice Sotomayor Under Fire For Aspirin Analogy in Oral Argument

JonathanTurley

American Civil Liberties Union attorney Chase Strangio (who has previously argued that children as young as two years old can identify themselves as transgender) seemed to later acknowledge that very few gender-dysphoric children actually go through with suicide, but insisted that the procedures reduce suicidal inclinations.

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Previewing the US Supreme Court’s October Sitting

Constitutional Law Reporter

New York: A litigant’s argumentation or introduction of evidence at trial is often deemed to “open the door” to the admission of responsive evidence that would otherwise be barred by the rules of evidence. Over a dissent, the Sixth Circuit refused to allow the Attorney General to defend Kentucky law.