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Justices decline to reinstate GOP-backed congressional voting maps in North Carolina, Pennsylvania

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Share The Supreme Court on Monday refused to block orders by courts in North Carolina and Pennsylvania that threw out the congressional maps enacted by the states’ Republican legislatures and replaced them with maps drawn by the trial courts. The North Carolina case.

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The independent-state-legislature theory for congressional maps and liability for cities under the ADA

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Share This week we highlight cert petitions that ask the Supreme Court to consider, among other things, whether the Constitution permits state courts to play a role in congressional redistricting and whether plaintiffs can hold cities liable when city employees violate federal protections for people with disabilities.

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North Carolina Supreme Court Upholds Judicially Mandated Speech And Censorship On Blog

JonathanTurley

An opinion out of North Carolina is raising very serious concern over free speech this week. Yet the North Carolina Supreme Court has now upheld the sentence without any opinion. There is no debate that Eldridge was wrong to record the proceedings and that the court was within the law in holding him in contempt.

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Fourth Circuit Rules Against North Carolina State Professor Who Spoke Out Against Diversity Policies

JonathanTurley

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.

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Looking Back at the Biggest Constitutional Law Decisions of 2023

Constitutional Law Reporter

Constitutional law took center stage in many U.S. Supreme Court and the New Jersey Supreme Court cases decided in 2023. At the nation’s highest Court, the six-member conservative majority continued its trend of issuing transformative decisions, most notably in its landmark decision effectively ending affirmative action.

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The independent state legislature theory and more on jurisdiction

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Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. This week’s conference represents the Supreme Court’s last currently scheduled conference. Last November, the North Carolina legislature enacted a new map for congressional elections in response to the 2020 U.S.

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Justices agree to hear technical bankruptcy case but won’t reconsider pillar of defamation law

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Share At last Thursday’s conference, the justices considered several high-profile petitions for review, involving issues like New York’s vaccine mandate for health-care workers, whether to overrule the court’s landmark decision in New York Times v. But the justices on Monday turned down that request.

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