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Supreme Court Upholds Ban on Encouraging Illegal Immigration

Constitutional Law Reporter

Supreme Court upheld a federal law that criminalizes “encouraging or inducing” an immigrant to come or remain in the United States unlawfully. According to the Court, the law does not run afoul of the First Amendment. In United States v. Hansen , 599 U.S. _ (2023), the U.S.

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SCOTUS Narrows Reach of Identity Fraud Statute

Constitutional Law Reporter

Section 1028A(a)(1) applies when a defendant, “during and in relation to any [predicate offense, such as healthcare fraud], knowingly transfers, possesses, or uses, without lawful authority, a means of identification of another person.” The Court today rightly rejects that unserious position.”

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Presidential Immunity Under Trump v. United States

Constitutional Law Reporter

137 (1803), and its progeny, necessarily permits the Judiciary to oversee the federal criminal prosecution of a former President for his official acts because the fact of the prosecution means that the former President has allegedly acted in defiance of the Congress’s laws.” The President is not above the law. Madison , 5 U.S.

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Smith is No Longer in a Hurry: Special Counsel Moves To Slow Down District Court Judge

JonathanTurley

That would certainly go against the grain of Smith, who has always pushed both the law and the calendar to the breaking point. It not only triggered difficult challenges but slowed the case to a crawl as the parties dealt with classification laws.

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Texas Supreme Court Lifts Restraining Order Protecting Democratic Legislators from Arrest

JonathanTurley

The lack of case law was at the heart of the “fact check” of the PolitiFact. Such objections should be distinguished from complaints over distorting backgrounds , history history , or the law. The Post is correct that there is virtually no case law on the provisions in either the federal or state constitutions.

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Ketanji Brown Jackson to Join SCOTUS as First Black Female Justice

Constitutional Law Reporter

Jackson, 51, also adds to the relative “youth” of the current Court, with Justice Amy Coney Barrett, Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh also in their 50s. Jackson Brings Diversity to the Supreme Court. Like many of her peers on the Supreme Court, Jackson attended a prestigious law school, graduating from Harvard Law School in 1996.

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Trump’s Surprise Witness: Rep. Waters Becomes A Possible Witness Against Her Own Lawsuit

JonathanTurley

Moreover, they would fail under a lower standard of proof than the “beyond a reasonable doubt” standard in criminal law. Such a result would eviscerate the claim that Trump was guilty of criminal incitement in his speech. Capitol as Congress was in the process of tallying the Electoral College vote results. Trump’s Jan.