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JonathanTurley
JANUARY 17, 2024
Today, the Supreme Court will hear two of the most important cases of the term. At issue is the continued meaning (or even viability) of the Chevron doctrine, the 40-year-old doctrine granting deference to federal agencies in regulations carrying out federal laws. In 1984, the Supreme Court ruled in Chevron U.S.A.
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
JUNE 22, 2022
As we wait for the release of the most significant Second Amendment case in over a decade from the Supreme Court (as early as tomorrow), CBS featured Ibram X. States opposed to slavery, like Vermont, Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, New York and Rhode Island, had precursor state constitutional provisions recognizing the right to bear arms.
JonathanTurley
JUNE 12, 2021
New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island and other states had similar precursors to the Second Amendment. fn41] Whoever examines the forest, and game laws in the British code, will readily perceive that the right of keeping arms is effectually taken away from the people of England. Amendments to C.
JonathanTurley
JULY 8, 2023
The United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit has delivered a body blow to free speech as well as academic freedom in a ruling against a statistics professor at North Carolina State University. In that way, the court avoids the necessity of applying the balancing test under Pickering v. Board of Education.
JonathanTurley
JULY 30, 2021
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. Gun-control advocates lost that debate before the Supreme Court in 2008.
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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