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SCOTUS Fails to Identify Leaker of Dobbs Opinion

Constitutional Law Reporter

Supreme Court has failed to discover who leaked a draft of the Court’s opinion in Dobbs v. According to the report, all of the Court employees interviewed affirmed under penalty of perjury that they did not disclose the Dobbs draft opinion to any person not employed by the Supreme Court. Santos-Zacaria v.

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SCOTUS Kicks Off February Sitting With Oral Arguments in Three Cases

Constitutional Law Reporter

The issues before the Court involved Native American law and immigration. United States : The case involves the Constitution’s double jeopardy clause and how it applies toa prosecution in the Court of Indian Offenses. Under the Immigration and Nationality Act ( 8 U.S.C. The justices heard oral arguments in three cases.

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Foreign Child Marriages and Constitutional Law – German Constitutional Court Holds Parts of the German Act to Combat Child Marriages Unconstitutional

Conflict of Laws

And as a matter of fact, the Constitutional Court decision itself is already almost two months old; it was rendered on February 1. This and the fact that the decision cites almost no sources published after 2019 except for new editions of commentaries, suggests that it may have existed as a draft for much longer.

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Lengthier opinions and shrinking cohesion: Indications for the future of the Supreme Court

SCOTUSBlog

Dobbs is also the only example of a case where a complete draft of the majority opinion was leaked prior to the publication of the final draft. Politico’s release of an early draft of the opinion in Dobbs sent a whirlwind across the nation. The long lapse between Feb. Dobbs opinion vs. Dobbs leak.

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Best Online Paralegal Programs for Career Advancement

Paralegal-Edu.Org

Consider this a starting point: Purdue University Global Online Paralegal Degree Program Purdue University Global offers a flexible online format that focuses on core legal topics: legal research , document drafting, ethics, and technology in modern law offices. Theres no shortage of directions to grow.

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Greater than Holmes? The life and legacy of John Marshall Harlan

SCOTUSBlog

Yet his record is not unblemished: He distrusted immigrants from China and even voted to deny citizenship to their U.S.-born Harlan’s dissent proved influential in changing the constitutional law of the nation. Harlan’s moral vision is memorialized in his lone dissent in Plessy v. born children. Last year, Peter S.

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Invasion or Evasion? Crisis at the Border is a Political, not a Constitutional Problem

JonathanTurley

Below is my column in the Hill on the effort to declare an “invasion” along the Texas border to allow the state to take greater control along the border to stem the flow of illegal immigrants. Greg Abbott signed an order allowing Texas law enforcement to return illegal immigrants apprehended in the state back to the U.S.