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How to Become a Certified Paralegal

Blackstone Career Institute

Blackstone Career Institute offers a clear pathway for people looking to become certified paralegals through the online Legal Assistant/Paralegal Program and NALA Certification Bundle available for purchase. Paralegals, also called legal assistants, help lawyers do their jobs by preparing for trials, hearings, and proceedings.

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Justices decline to reinstate GOP-backed congressional voting maps in North Carolina, Pennsylvania

SCOTUSBlog

Alito described the independent-state-legislature theory as “an exceptionally important and recurring question of constitutional law,” and he suggested that the justices “will have to resolve this question sooner or later, and the sooner we do so, the better.” McCullough recommended that the state use the legislature’s map.

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Supreme Court Holds FBAR Penalties Are Calculated Per Report

Constitutional Law Reporter

“Best read, the BSA treats the failure to file a legally compliant report as one violation carrying a maximum penalty of $10,000, not a cascade of such penalties calculated on a per-account basis,” Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote on behalf of the majority. Instead, the relevant legal duty is the duty to file reports.”

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Supreme Court Stays Title 42 Order to Preserve the “Remain in Mexico

JonathanTurley

The order embodies what Gorsuch previously warned was a “holiday” of legal principles during the Covid crisis. ” Gorsuch has long refused to blindly follow Covid rationales as an exception to constitutional or statutory limitations. Judge Sullivan issued a nationwide injunction in an earlier decision. .”

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“Craven” and “Insurrectionists”: MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow and Other Denounce the Supreme Court for Granting Review of Presidential Immunity

JonathanTurley

Former president Donald Trump wrote on Truth Social that “Legal Scholars are extremely thankful for the Supreme Court’s Decision today to take up Presidential Immunity.” ” As I mentioned last night in the coverage, legal scholars are hardly doing a conga line in celebration. Monday, April 15, 2024.

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“A Sad Day”: How the Colorado Disqualification Case is Bringing Back Some Bad Memories for the Supreme Court

JonathanTurley

As someone covering the 2000 opinion as a CBS News legal analyst at the time, I was taken aback by how the motivations and even the integrity of the justices was challenged in reaching their decision. At the time, another rising star in Republican legal circles was getting her start as a young law firm associate.

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Fani Willis Fights for a Mass Trial As the Georgia Defendants Scatter

JonathanTurley

Of course, Willis is not the only person with a challenging calendar. Jonathan Turley, an attorney, constitutional law scholar and legal analyst, is the Shapiro Chair for Public Interest Law at The George Washington University Law School.