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Near Unanimous Supreme Court Rules Against Georgia Gwinnett College In Free Speech Victory

JonathanTurley

If Georgia Gwinnett College wanted to foster greater unity in its use of “free speech zones,” it succeeded in prompting a near unanimous Supreme Court in ruling against it in favor of free speech this week. Georgia Gwinnett College seemed to grasp for any claim to keep the students from speaking.

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Gain Experience with Paralegal Pro Bono Work

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I’m going back to the days when I was a litigation paralegal. I remember spending weeks up in north Georgia in a warehouse with traffic lights so that the semis didn’t run you over if you were crossing INSIDE the warehouse. They let me take charge in a way that was at a much higher level than your typical civil litigation case.

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Pence Asserts Novel Constitutional Claim to Avoid Testifying Before Grand Jury

JonathanTurley

The Supreme Court has held that “to the extent that [congressional officers] serve legislative functions, the performance of which would be immune. The Justice Department has maintained this broader definition in prior litigation declared in 2021 that Pence was shielded by the “speech or debate” clause in a civil lawsuit.

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Cherry-picked history and ideology-driven outcomes: Bruen’s originalist distortions

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Bruen invokes the authority of history but presents a version of the past that is little more than an ideological fantasy, much of it invented by gun-rights advocates and their libertarian allies in the legal academy with the express purpose of bolstering litigation such as Bruen. Bruen does mark a new low for the court.

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Justices will clarify how death-row prisoners can contest a state’s method of execution

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Share The Supreme Court doesn’t care all that much for method-of-execution challenges. It particularly disfavors Eighth Amendment litigation attacking familiar lethal injection protocols as “cruel and unusual” punishment. Nance eventually challenged Georgia’s lethal injection protocol, which uses a single drug (pentobarbital).

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The lives they lived and the court they shaped: Remembering those we lost in 2022

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Share At the end of each year, SCOTUSblog remembers some of the people whose lives and work left an imprint on the Supreme Court. From legendary lawyers to lesser-known activists, journalists, and plaintiffs, the following individuals who died in 2022 all shaped the court and the law in their own ways. David Beckwith (Oct.

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Is The “Workaround” Working? Fourth Court Enjoins Biden Vaccine Mandate

JonathanTurley

district court in Georgia became the fourth court to enjoin a Biden Administration vaccine mandate this week. As with the other trial and appellate courts, District Judge R. All of these mandates are on course for a showdown in the Supreme Court where three justices have already expressed skepticism over the mandates.

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