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Divided Court Rejects Eminent Domain Challenge Involving Natural-Gas Pipeline

Constitutional Law Reporter

. §717f(e) provides that to build an interstate pipeline, a natural gas company must obtain from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission a certificate reflecting that such construction “is or will be required by the present or future public convenience and necessity.” FERC granted petitioner PennEast Pipeline Co.

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Divided Court Rejects Eminent Domain Challenge Involving Natural-Gas Pipeline

Constitutional Law Reporter

. §717f(e) provides that to build an interstate pipeline, a natural gas company must obtain from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission a certificate reflecting that such construction “is or will be required by the present or future public convenience and necessity.” FERC granted petitioner PennEast Pipeline Co.

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Divided Court Rejects Eminent Domain Challenge Involving Natural-Gas Pipeline

Constitutional Law Reporter

. §717f(e) provides that to build an interstate pipeline, a natural gas company must obtain from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission a certificate reflecting that such construction “is or will be required by the present or future public convenience and necessity.” FERC granted petitioner PennEast Pipeline Co.

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Not, The Second Amendment Was Not Primarily About Suppressing African Americans

JonathanTurley

The media has given highly favorable coverage to a new book by Dr. Carol Anderson , chair of Emory University’s Black Studies Department, that argues that “[the Second Amendment] was designed and has consistently been constructed to keep African Americans powerless and vulnerable.” Amendments to C.

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The Second Amendment Is About Rifles Not Racism

JonathanTurley

Issues long debated over other grounds — the Senate’s filibuster rule , voter ID laws , even standardized testing , math , statistics and meritocracy — have all been reframed as a choice between racism and equality. Slavery was a matter discussed both at the Declaration of Independence and during the Constitutional debates.

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Joe Biden is No George Washington, and Valley Forge Proved it

JonathanTurley

Facing the lowest polling numbers of any modern president , Biden attempted a constructive substitution. Even as Biden was telling citizens to vote Democrat to preserve democracy, a Democratic activist was seeking to remove a GOP congressman from the ballot in a nearby Pennsylvania district. Democracy is on the ballot,” he said.