Constitutional Law Reporter

JANUARY 6, 2025

Eagle County, Colorado : The case involves how to interpret the Courts prior decision in Department of Transportation v. The post SCOTUS Ends Oral Arguments for 2024 With Four Cases appeared first on Constitutional Law Reporter. Seven County Infrastructure Coalition v. Public Citizen , 541 U.S.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 29, 2021

Thomas notes that the “petitioners have found that the Government’s willingness to often look the other way on marijuana is more episodic than coherent.”.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 11, 2023

On Labor Day, his bakery, Masterpiece Cakeshop in Colorado reached its 30th anniversary. That refusal turned Phillips’ tiny bakery into ground zero for the long-standing battle between religious rights and anti-discrimination laws. Now, the Colorado Supreme Court has agreed to hear the latest case involving Phillips.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 27, 2023

Jack Phillip, the Colorado baker who brought the challenge in Masterpiece Cakeshop, Ltd. Colorado Civil Rights Commission has again lost an appeal in Colorado state court. The Colorado Court of Appeals ruled on Thursday that the refusal to make the cake requested by Autumn Scardina did not constitute free speech.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

JULY 25, 2023

Supreme Court held that the First Amendment prohibits Colorado from forcing a website designer to create expressive designs speaking messages with which the designer disagrees. As the district court correctly held, Colorado may prohibit speech that promotes unlawful activity, including unlawful discrimination,” the court wrote. “As

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Constitutional Law Reporter

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Because 303 Creative’s refusal to serve same-sex couples could run afoul of Colorado’s Anti-Discrimination Act (CADA), the company filed suit seeking a broad declaration that the Act violates the Company’s free speech and free exercise rights under the First Amendment. Smith , 494 U.S. Oral arguments are scheduled for December 5, 2022.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

I have the pleasure of speaking this morning at the University of Maryland Law School as part of the Law Review’s annual symposium on constitutional law. I will be on the first panel at 10:15 at the law school. Colorado Civil Rights Commission.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 27, 2021

Colorado Civil Rights Commission. The case involved Charlie Craig and David Mullins who went to the Colorado cake shop of Jack Phillips to order a cake celebrating their earlier marriage in Massachusetts. The Colorado Civil Rights Division referred the case to the state’s Civil Rights Commission, which ruled against Phillips.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 17, 2023

Many on the left are supporting Colorado in a major free speech case before the Supreme Court: 303 Creative v. The financial arrangement over milk distribution only makes this prior restraint more problematic. The underlying right, however, can be a double edged sword.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 25, 2024

With other states like Massachusetts ruling this week against disqualification , Colorado will remain the outlier as the only state supreme court willing to embrace this dangerous and anti-democratic theory. In the meantime, over half of the states have now filed to denounce this theory and ask the Supreme Court to reverse Colorado.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 30, 2022

Bollinger declared an expectation that affirmative action would no longer be necessary in 25 years — a self-imposed expiration date that would be unheard of in any other area of constitutional law. The designer says she is entitled to a First Amendment exemption from the law, lest she be compelled to endorse same-sex marriage.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 14, 2021

Sites like Lawyers, Guns, and Money feature writers like Colorado Law Professor Paul Campus who call for the firing of those with opposing views ( including myself ).

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

Colorado Civil Rights Commission , ruling for the owner yet leaving uncertainty over the constitutional limitations on cities and states under anti-discrimination law. Colorado’s arguments in the case only heightened free-speech concerns. The court ultimately punted in that case, Masterpiece Cakeshop v.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Elenis , where the state of Colorado required a website design to not only offer services to same-sex couples but to remove a statement on her website that was not consistent with the state’s views. While the age verification presents a closer question, I am particularly concerned over the compelled speech element of the warnings.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 29, 2023

So here is the list to see if you are residing in an anti-free speech state: Arizona Colorado Connecticut Delaware Hawaii Illinois Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Nevada New Jersey New Mexico, New York Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island Vermont Washington Wisconsin District of Columbia Here is the brief: Missouri v.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 30, 2023

A six-justice majority agreed that Colorado cannot enforce a state anti-discrimination law against a Christian website designer who does not want to create wedding websites for same-sex couples because doing so would violate her First Amendment right to free speech.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Another ruling is expected soon out of Colorado. I have previously addressed the constitutional basis for this claim. Last week, the Minnesota Supreme Court ruled in a similar case that Trump could not be removed from the primary ballot in that state.

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Above The Law

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

The post Law School Offers Class On Trump & The Constitution, Gets Attacked With Scare Quotes appeared first on Above the Law. This is some of the heaviest lifting I've ever seen quotation marks do.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 7, 2021

The press has not had any apparent inclination or (in the case of Fox News) an opportunity to ask Biden for a full answer on why the Georgia law is worse than the Jim Crow laws. As previously discussed, states like Colorado have voter identification provisions and many of the same provisions as Georgia.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 27, 2021

Jason Crow, a Colorado Democrat who served in the 75th Ranger Regiment, criticized Cotton for referring to himself as an Army Ranger, tweeting a picture of a Ranger in uniform with “Hey @SenTomCotton, unless you wore one of these berets you shouldn’t be calling yourself a Ranger. Conversely, Rep.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 20, 2021

It also adds strength to other pending cases, including yet another case involving the Masterpiece Cakeshop in Colorado to make cakes celebrating LGBT events. .” It is a major win for religious rights and the Court spoke as one in reversing the lower courts with a strong majority opinion and concurring opinions.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Lauren Boebert (R-CO) and Fox News host Tucker Carlson to face civil liability for their commentary on transgender policies or controversies after the recent tragic shooting in Colorado.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 21, 2023

That moment will now be presented to nine justices of the United States Supreme Court after a divided decision of the Colorado Supreme Court to disqualify Donald Trump in the 2024 election. The Colorado decision to bar Donald Trump from the ballot will be overturned because it is wrong on the history and the language of the 14th Amendment.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 26, 2022

States like Colorado protect the right of a woman to make this decision without limitations on the stage of a pregnancy. Now, the overwhelming majority of Americans have supported Roe v. Wade and 16 states have guaranteed abortion, including states such as California, Illinois and New York that hold a significant percentage of the population.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 19, 2021

None of this, ‘I’m in Colorado … and getting paid like I’m sitting in New York City.’ While some many have religious objections, Morgan Stanley CEO James Gorman made clear in July that employees would face what Wen called “hard” times if they tried to work from home: “If you want to get paid New York rates, you work in New York.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 2, 2024

Jamie Raskin raised eyebrows on Sunday with a CNN interview where he said that there may have to be action take if Justice Clarence Thomas does not recuse himself from pending appeals from the disqualification of Donald Trump from the Colorado and Maine ballots.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

Colorado went with a 15-round limit for handguns and rifles, and a 28-inch tube limit for shotguns. Our federal government and most states impose no limits and in the states where limits are imposed, there is no consensus. Delaware landed on a 17-round magazine limit. New York tried its luck at a 7-round limit; that did not work out.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 7, 2022

Many Democratic leaders have been speaking of absolute abortion rights , as reflected in states like Colorado which recognize the right to abortion until after birth at nine months. I previously wrote about how most Americans are not aligned by the most extreme views of both parties on abortion.

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Above The Law

MARCH 21, 2025

In a series of recent decisions, federal courts across the United States have addressed a range of significant legal issues, from civil rights and constitutional law to administrative authority and criminal justice. Area of Law: Constitutional Law, Civil Rights, Federal Authority: 25 points. Other Areas: 15 points.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

AUGUST 4, 2021

The Supreme Court called the appellate court’s conclusion that there are always reasonable legal alternatives to disobeying constitutional laws “untenable,” and held that “reasonable legal alternatives” must be effective. filed July 7, 2021); Conservation Law Foundation v. BP p.l.c. , Gulf Oil LP , No. 3:21-cv-00932 (D.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

APRIL 4, 2024

Facts of the Case Six months before the March 5, 2024, Colorado primary election, four Republican and two unaffiliated Colorado voters filed a petition against former President Trump and Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold in Colorado state court.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

percent of 11,580 abortions in Colorado took place after 21 weeks, but just 60 took place at 25 weeks or later.” That is 268 late-term abortions in Colorado in one year, a small percentage but not inconsequential. Late-term abortions are rare, but they do occur — for a variety of medical and personal reasons.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 21, 2023

” Those words from New York Times editorial board member Mara Gay on MSNBC captured the unhinged coverage of the Colorado Supreme Court’s disqualification of Donald Trump from the 2024 election. So those three Democratic appointees on the Colorado Supreme Court were just more confederate fellow travelers. It’s clear.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 17, 2023

Five years ago, in the Masterpiece Cakeshop case , a baker was found to be in violation of the Colorado Anti-Discrimination Act for refusing to make a wedding cake for a same-sex couple due to his religious objections. The court largely punted the case on narrow grounds.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Anderson , which will determine whether President Donald Trump may remain on the 2024 presidential primary ballot in the State of Colorado. Trump may not appear on the Colorado Republican presidential primary ballot. Citing provisions of Colorado’s Uniform Election Code of 1992, §§ 1-1-101 to 1-13-804 , C.R.S.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 3, 2022

That was the case in the Masterpiece Cakeshop case in 2018, in which a baker was found to be in violation of the Colorado Anti-Discrimination Act for refusing to make a wedding cake for a same-sex couple due to his religious objections. 303 Creative has the makings of not just Masterpiece Cakeshop 2.0

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 22, 2022

As a volunteer lawyer, Jackson wrote on behalf of women’s groups defending a Massachusetts law that barred abortion protesters from the entrances of facilities. In fairness to Jackson, the law was similar to a Colorado law upheld by the Court 6-3 in Hill v.

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