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Kentucky Attorney Files Challenge To Kentucky Governor’s Closure OF Religious Schools

JonathanTurley

There is an interesting fight brewing in Kentucky between Attorney General Daniel Cameron and Gov. Beshear has correctly cited a major victory recently before the Kentucky Supreme Court — an unanimous decision in favor of his authority to issue pandemic orders. Andy Beshear. In Beshear v.

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Colorado Supreme Court Rejects Proposal to Fix Systemic Racism in Jury Selection

The Crime Report

The Colorado Supreme Court has unanimously rejected a proposal that would fix a decades-old legal standard that has made it easy for attorneys to exclude people of color, especially African Americans, from serving on juries, reports the Colorado Sun. The 1986 U.S.

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North Carolina’s voter-ID lawsuit, racial bias in juries and a veteran’s disability claim

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North Carolina State Conference of the NAACP addresses the ability of North Carolina legislators to defend the state’s voter-ID law from lawsuits under the Constitution and the Voting Rights Act. Federal law curtails the extent to which a federal court can consider arguments that a prisoner has not presented in state court.

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The High Court’s ‘Self-Inflicted Wounds’: A Backward Look

The Crime Report

Was the Supreme Court decision last month overruling Roe v. Wade one of the worst decisions in the 233-year history of the Court? Forty-two years later, in another embarrassing moment for the High Court, a seven-justice majority ruled, in Plessy v. Ferguson , that racial segregation laws did not violate the U.S.

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Six cases to look out for

SCOTUSBlog

With just a few weeks left before the Supreme Court’s summer recess, we’re entering the busiest phase of the year for relists. The court granted review in two cases on Monday: one-time relist Facebook v. Kentucky because “it implies some sort of nefarious intent on the part of prosecutors.” rescheduled before the Jan.

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Supreme Court once again considers the “categorical approach” to sentencing enhancements

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That is the majority rule among the federal courts of appeals. Under the Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act, the court could grant relief only if he could show that the Lousiana Supreme Court’s decision was “contrary to clearly established federal law.” The district court denied relief, and the U.S.

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Supreme Court takes Clean Water Act case

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The justices did not act on two sets of high-profile petitions that they considered last week: a group of challenges to bans imposed by Illinois and several municipalities in that state on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, as well as challenges to bans on gender-affirming care for minors in Tennessee and Kentucky.

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