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“Coercive Control”: Parents Could Lose Custody Under Proposed Colorado Law for “Misgendering”

JonathanTurley

For example, the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit ruled schools can hide a change of gender in young children from their parents. Now, Colorado is poised to pass a law that would threaten the custody rights of parents who “deadname” or “misgender” their own children.

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Looking Back at the Biggest Constitutional Law Decisions of 2023

Constitutional Law Reporter

Constitutional law took center stage in many U.S. Supreme Court and the New Jersey Supreme Court cases decided in 2023. At the nation’s highest Court, the six-member conservative majority continued its trend of issuing transformative decisions, most notably in its landmark decision effectively ending affirmative action.

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Federal Court Enjoins “Assault Gun” Ban in Boulder County, Colorado

JonathanTurley

As various states move to pass controversial new gun control laws after the decision in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, one such law was just enjoined by a federal court in Colorado. and Wyoming, correctly found that the law clearly ran afoul of the controlling precedent.

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Supreme Court Clarifies First Amendment Test for True Threats

Constitutional Law Reporter

Colorado , 600 U.S. _ (2023), the U.S. Supreme Court held that to establish that a statement is a “true threat” unprotected by the First Amendment, the state must prove that the defendant had some subjective understanding of the statements’ threatening nature, based on a showing no more demanding than recklessness. In Counterman v.

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The Maine Event That Wasn’t: Bellows Fails Again to Force a Ruling on Disqualification

JonathanTurley

Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows lost another attempt to force review of her disqualification “decision” before the United States Supreme Court hears arguments on the issue on Feb. The Maine Supreme Court declined to review the matter. A year after the riot , Bellows was still denouncing the “violent insurrection.”

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SCOTUS Ends Oral Arguments for 2024 With Four Cases

Constitutional Law Reporter

Supreme Court heard its final oral arguments of 2024. Below is a brief summary of the legal questions before the Court: Feliciano v. Eagle County, Colorado : The case involves how to interpret the Courts prior decision in Department of Transportation v. Last week, the U.S. ” In Adams v. 4th 1375, 1379 (Fed.

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Turley Speaks at Tenth Circuit Judicial Conference

JonathanTurley

I have the honor of speaking today at the Tenth Circuit judicial conference in Colorado Springs, Colorado. I will be part of a panel discussing the Supreme Court’s recent religious freedom cases and related First Amendment issues. Lucero of the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals. the Court handed down two major such rulings.