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SCOTUS Adds LGBTQ Book Case to Docket

Constitutional Law Reporter

Supreme Court has added another closely watched First Amendment case to its docket. As detailed in court documents, the books as a whole express their authors’ views on sexual orientation and gender identity by portraying homosexual, transgender, and non-binary characters in various situations. Yoder, 406 U.S. Yoder, 406 U.S.

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Locked and Loaded: Supreme Court is Ready for a Showdown on the Second Amendment

JonathanTurley

Bruen, the first major gun rights case before the Supreme Court in ten years. Justices have been openly discussing a case to push back on lower courts that have been chipping away at its Second Amendment jurisprudence. The court will soon take up New York State Rifle & Pistol Association Inc. Penal Law § 400.00(2)(f)

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“Vote Reparations”: Law Professor Calls For The Votes of Black Americans To Count Twice

JonathanTurley

Featured prominently on the law school’s website , the article pushes a similar proposal made in the Washington Post in 2015 by Theodore Johnson, a senior fellow at the Brennan Center for Justice. Ironically, the proposals would upend decades of civil rights litigation to defend the “one man, one vote” principle.

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President Biden and Others Renew Calls for Gun Control After Wisconsin Shooting

JonathanTurley

The shooting at the Abundant Life Christian School in Madison, Wisconsin, immediately prompted renewed calls for gun control from President Joe Biden and others. More importantly, the Wisconsin case only highlighted why these standard demands for gun control would not have impacted that case. Even the U.S.

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“It Simply Does Not Make Any Sense”: Judge Trashes Election Lawsuit by the Elias Law Firm

JonathanTurley

The Chief Judge of the Western Direct of Wisconsin, James Peterson (an Obama appointee), did not just reject but ridiculed the Elias Law Group challenge to a witness requirement for absentee voting. Elias have been previously sanctioned in court and accused of lying in the Steele dossier scandal by journalists and others.

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Lessons Learned In Law School

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Our Panelist: Karina Perez Ilić (KPI) [link] Silvia Amador Brett (SAB) [link] Annabelle Bichler (AB) [link] Jenna Sutter (JS) [link] Brian Mickelsen (BM) is a founding partner of Mickelsen Dalton and a dynamic trial lawyer who has litigated in 12 states. You can learn more on The Entrekin Law Firm’s personal injury page.

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“A Sad Day”: How the Colorado Disqualification Case is Bringing Back Some Bad Memories for the Supreme Court

JonathanTurley

Below is my column in The Messenger on the challenge facing the Supreme Court in the coming week over the electoral disqualification of former president Donald Trump in Colorado and Maine. The appeal in Maine has been filed and can now work its way up to the Court. Colorado is expected to file with the Court this week.

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