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New Hampshire Supreme Court Rejects Hate Speech Enforcement

JonathanTurley

The New Hampshire Supreme Court just handed down a victory for free speech in Attorney General v. ” We agree with the trial court’s assessment and proceed to the regulation at issue. The Supreme Court has consistently rejected Gov. We are not persuaded. Walz’s claim.

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The quiet radicalism of Justice Souter

SCOTUSBlog

Charles Barzun is a Professor of Law at the University of Virginia, where he teaches Constitutional Law, Evidence, Jurisprudence, and Torts.He is currently working on a book on the American common law tradition. Consider a few examples: In his 1997 opinion for the court in Old Chief v.

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Federal court blocks Trump birthright citizenship order nationwide

JURIST

A US federal court on Thursday granted a nationwide injunction blocking President Donald Trump’s executive order restricting birthright citizenship, delivering a significant victory to civil rights groups in an escalating legal battle that has already reached the Supreme Court. In the order issued Thursday, Judge Joseph N.

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Boston University Professor: Second Amendment is Based on “Freedom to Enslave”

JonathanTurley

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.

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Washington School Triggers Free Speech Fight Over Order to RemoveBlue Lives Matter

JonathanTurley

36, 49–51 (1961) : Throughout its history this Court has consistently recognized at least two ways in which constitutionally protected freedom of speech is narrower than an unlimited license to talk. On the one hand, certain forms of speech, or speech in certain contexts, has been considered outside the scope of constitutional protection.

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Fourth Circuit Overturns Conviction Of Retired Air Force Colonel For Using Racial Slur

JonathanTurley

In a major but likely controversial victory for free speech, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit overturned the conviction of a retired Air Force Colonel for using a racial epithet at the shoe store on the Marine base at Quantico in Virginia. New Hampshire , 315 U.S. Winston , 199 S.E.2d 2d 724, 726 (Va.

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Not, The Second Amendment Was Not Primarily About Suppressing African Americans

JonathanTurley

New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island and other states had similar precursors to the Second Amendment. The Supreme Court has itself highlighted that rationale in its discussions of the history and purpose of the Amendment. There are a myriad of historical sources expounding on this rationale for the Second Amendment.