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The art of justice: Re-examining landmark Supreme Court cases through expressionist paintings

SCOTUSBlog

Share Tired of reading jargon-filled law review articles with hundreds of footnotes? The perfect antidote is Painting Constitutional Law: Xavier Cortada’s Images of Constitutional Rights , edited by Professors M.C. Cortada’s painting reminds us that Gideon’s petition started a constitutional debate that is still ongoing.

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Supreme Court orders new review of Florida, Texas social media laws

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The US Supreme Court on Monday vacated and remanded lower court rulings regarding the constitutionality of statutes enacted by Florida and Texas to regulate large social media companies’ content moderation practices. The Eleventh Circuit upheld the Florida injunction, citing First Amendment protections of editorial discretion.

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Packing Services: Federal Judge Rules Ban on Guns in Post Offices is Unconstitutional

JonathanTurley

In Florida, U.S. District Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle has ruled that the federal law prohibiting people from possessing firearms inside post offices is unconstitutional. Under this criminal statute, with the proliferation of the federal government comes the diminution of the People’s right to bear arms. 18 U.S.C. §

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“This is How Republics Collapse”: Another Adverse Decision Sends the Press and Pundits into a Hair-Pulling Meltdown

JonathanTurley

Indeed, law professors and legal experts are demanding the removal of Cannon for having the temerity to adopt an opposing view of the underlying constitutional claim. Those ominous words captured the hand-wringing, hair-pulling reaction to the dismissal of the Florida case against Donald Trump by Judge Aileen Cannon.

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California Dreaming: Newsom’s Kidnapping Claim Against DeSantis is Long on Politics and Short on the Law

JonathanTurley

It is a curious call for a governor to make after he ran ads in Florida calling on people to “join us in California.” California Attorney General Rob Bonta (D) chimed in, declaring the flight from Florida might be “ State-sanctioned kidnapping.” First, let’s look at the law. Gavin Newsom (D.,

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The lives they lived and the court they shaped: Remembering those we lost in 2022

SCOTUSBlog

During an illustrious career as a constitutional law scholar and a top Supreme Court advocate, Walter Dellinger argued 24 times before the court, including in some of the biggest cases of the past 30 years. She successfully blocked the executions of two half-brothers who had been convicted of a Florida murder and were later released.

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Aged Out at 17? Prince Andrew Raises Surprising Defense to Giuffre Lawsuit

JonathanTurley

Florida Southern District Court. Giuffre insists that Prince Andrew is not covered in the agreement, which was connected to the controversial resolution of the charges in Florida against Epstein. ” That does create a credible threshold defense and a tough question for the court. .

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