Constitutional Law Reporter

JUNE 13, 2025

Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Trump v. While the issues before the Court are largely procedural at this point, the Court’s decision will still be consequential, particularly with regard to lower courts’ issuance of nationwide injunctions. jurisdiction” as set forth in Constitution’s Citizenship Clause.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 25, 2024

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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JonathanTurley

JUNE 9, 2023

Attorney for the District of Massachusetts, announced that she was taking a look, “long and hard,” at potential charges. First, let’s look at the law. Many migrants are released soon after capture, including some without a hearing date or court dates that are years in the future.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 15, 2022

Notably, this week, the board defended its policy before the Supreme Court by insisting that it was not “race balancing” and that the new policy is entirely “race neutral.” The TJ case is important not just to constitutional but educational standards in America.

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 21, 2021

Share The Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court reconvened on Tuesday to hear from a new set of experts on various ideas for Supreme Court reform. President Joe Biden appointed the 36-member commission to write a report on various court-reform options.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

The consent form – available in English and Spanish – states: “I agree to hold the benefactor or its designed representatives harmless of all liability arising out of or in any way relating to any injuries and damages that may occur during the agreed transport to locations outside of Texas until the final destination in Massachusetts.”

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 25, 2021

The problem is that the courts already recognize some religious exemption arguments. Those arguments are based on both the constitutional protection of religious values but also laws like Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, 42 U.S.C. There is a move in many states to refuse to allow such exemptions, but courts have pushed back.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Supreme Court recently granted certiorari in Counterman v. 723 (2015), but ultimately decided the case before reaching the constitutional issue. She subsequently reported Counterman to law enforcement. The Colorado Court of Appeals affirmed the conviction. The justices previously agreed to address the issue in Elonis v.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Now, a filing in the Supreme Court supporting censorship efforts by the Biden Administration has supplied a handy list of the anti-free speech states for citizens. Not surprisingly, the state of California is leading the effort to get the Supreme Court to reverse a decision enjoining the government from censorship efforts.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 27, 2021

There is a new ruling out of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit that could be headed for a major showdown in the Supreme Court. Elenis could force a hitherto evasive Court to rule directly on the conflict between anti-discrimination laws and the religious clauses. The decision in 303 Creative LLC v.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 16, 2022

Virginia , was based on different constitutional grounds and would not be negated by this opinion. While the court did discuss the due process right to marriage, it was primarily handed down on equal protection grounds due to the inherent racial classification. In 2015, the court voted 5-4 to strike down bans on same-sex marriage.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 9, 2021

Share President Joe Biden will issue an executive order to create a commission to study potential reforms to the Supreme Court, the White House announced on Friday. In its statement, the White House indicated that the commission will be a bipartisan one, made up of experts “on the Court and the Court reform debate.”

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 22, 2022

. “In passing on this nomination to the Supreme Court, we must also pass judgment on whether or not your particular philosophy is an appropriate one at this time in our history.” In her recent appellate court confirmation process, Jackson expressly refused to discuss her judicial philosophy. One of them was Jackson herself.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 8, 2021

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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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

.” (Elias was previously accused of lying to conceal the Clinton campaign’s funding of the Steele dossier, has sought to reverse election results, and has been sanctioned by the courts). Nevertheless, President Biden and Democrats like Nadler are seeking to take control over state election laws in the name of democracy.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 25, 2021

Indeed, if you expect your holiday events are going to be an emotional powder keg, think of dinner for Justice Sonia Sotomayor with the three newest justices after she said a “stench” of politics followed them to the Court. Actually, some early laws were tied to the “quickening” for the first feeling of movement in a pregnancy.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 27, 2024

With the Supreme Court taking an off ramp in Murthy v. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts have pushed for restrictions on “unacceptable” speech. After fighting in the courts and in the public to expand censorship, Biden should now have to defend it with the voters. Other Democrats such as Sen. ”

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 22, 2023

Five members recently made public comments against Israel in rallies in Washington: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York , Ilhan Omar of Minnesota , Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts , Rashida Tlaib of Michigan and Cori Bush of Missouri. Moreover, the courts have rejected the use of exclusion in Powell v.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 22, 2022

” Now an appellate court has also found that Democrats were trying to rig the next election and the five-judge panel ruled against the plan. Those words by President Biden followed a decision by North Carolina’s supreme court rejecting new state legislative districts that favored Republicans. Biden was not alone.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 10, 2022

Below is my column in the Hill on the vaccine mandate cases before the Supreme Court. Businesses and groups are still waiting to see if the Supreme Court will issue an injunction in the OSHA case. If the Biden administration loses on the OSHA case, it would constitute a major political and legal blow.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

AUGUST 4, 2021

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. Washington Supreme Court Said Climate Activist Was Entitled to Present Necessity Defense Based on Evidence that Legal Alternatives Were Not “Truly Reasonable”.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 13, 2022

San Francisco Regional Director Jill Coffman declared that the company is violating the rights of workers in 10 different states (Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Virginia, Maryland, Georgia, Washington, Indiana, and California). The Supreme Court has pushed back on federal agencies trying to regulate speech.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

MAY 21, 2025

Supreme Court has agreed to consider legal challenges to President Donald Trumps executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship. Facts of the Case The Supreme Court will hear three cases, which have been consolidated for Supreme Court review: Trump v. jurisdiction as set forth in Constitutions Citizenship Clause.

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