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SCOTUS Rules Non-Citizens Must Challenge Removal Under Alien Enemies Act

Constitutional Law Reporter

On March 15, 2025, the District Court for the District of Columbia issued two temporary restraining orders (TROs) preventing any removal of the named plaintiffs and preventing removal under the AEA of a provisionally certified class consisting of [a]ll noncitizens in U.S. custody who are subject to the Proclamation.

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Cherry-picked history and ideology-driven outcomes: Bruen’s originalist distortions

SCOTUSBlog

But the Texas statute, and the rationales set forth in English and Duke , are outliers.” In District of Columbia v. If anyone had any doubts that the new originalism was the Federalist Society’s latest intellectual scam , then these two approaches to reading constitutional texts ought to dispel any lingering doubts.

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SCOTUS Hears Oral Arguments in FDA Vaping Challenge and Three Other Cases

Constitutional Law Reporter

If FDA denies an application for authorization, “any person adversely affected by such denial may file a petition for judicial review of such denial with the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia or for the circuit in which such person resides or has their principal place of business.”

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

JonathanTurley

In 2008, the Supreme Court handed down a landmark ruling in District of Columbia v. The Supreme Court accepted the case for review and was expected to overturn the law — until New York suddenly changed the law and then quietly sought to withdraw its case before any ruling. Two years after Heller, in McDonald v.

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Ninth Circuit Rules Against Las Vegas Officer in Anti-Police Protest Case

JonathanTurley

When Plaintiffs refused to stop chalking, Sergeant Wallace decided to issue a citation to each plaintiff for violation of Nevada’s graffiti statute, which criminalizes conduct that “places graffiti on or otherwise defaces the public or private property, real or personal, of another, without the permission of the owner.” . Wesby, 138 S.

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US Supreme Court Strikes Down Federal Eviction Ban

Constitutional Law Reporter

District Court for the District of Columbia granted the plaintiffs summary judgment, holding that the CDC lacked statutory authority to impose the moratorium. It strains credulity to believe that this statute grants the CDC the sweeping authority that it asserts.”. However, the court stayed its order pending appeal.

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Could Cosby Sue For Wrongful Conviction?

JonathanTurley

Roughly 30 states and the District of Columbia have statutes allowing for recovery for wrongful convictions and imprisonment. One question is whether Cosby could now sue for not just the prosecution but the incarceration in light of the ruling of the Supreme Court. Pennsylvania is not one of them (which is quite surprising).

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