Constitutional Law Reporter

AUGUST 9, 2021

a certificate of public convenience and necessity authorizing construction of a 116-mile pipeline from Pennsylvania to New Jersey. The post Divided Court Rejects Eminent Domain Challenge Involving Natural-Gas Pipeline appeared first on Constitutional Law Reporter. FERC granted petitioner PennEast Pipeline Co.

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AUGUST 5, 2019

The 1st Amendment reads: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. Schempp , 374 U.S. Schempp , 374 U.S.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 7, 2023

However, when Range pleaded guilty in 1995, his conviction was classified as a Pennsylvania misdemeanor punishable by up to five years’ imprisonment. When his wife recently bought him a deer-hunting rifle, he learned that he was barred under federal law. That triggered the federal ban.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 12, 2021

However, this is not a new theory and, while there were concerns at the time about slavery and uprisings, the roots of the Second Amendment can be traced largely to England and the fears of government oppression. The right to bear arms was viewed as a bulwark against oppression of citizens by the government. 309 (1991).

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 22, 2022

“the Second Amendment “provided the cover, the assurances that Patrick Henry and George Mason needed, that the militias would not be controlled by the federal government, but that they would be controlled by the states and at the beck and call of the states to be able to put down these uprisings.”. Historian Carol Anderson claims that.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 5, 2021

As a state school, Virginia Tech is subject to the limitations imposed on the government under the First Amendment. A University of Pennsylvania professor faced calls for his termination when he questioned an anti-racism statement.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 1, 2022

For years, anti-free-speech figures have dismissed free speech objections to social media censorship by stressing that the First Amendment applies only to the government, not private companies. The distinction was always a dishonest effort to evade the implications of speech controls, whether implemented by the government or corporations.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 13, 2022

San Francisco Regional Director Jill Coffman declared that the company is violating the rights of workers in 10 different states (Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Virginia, Maryland, Georgia, Washington, Indiana, and California). In her consolidated complaint against Whole Foods Market, Inc., Last February, U.S.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

.” The First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, and Eleventh Circuits, as well as Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Connecticut, California, Hawaii, Iowa, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, North Dakota, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Washington, and Washington D.C., Oral arguments will be held on April 19, 2023.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Biden that administration officials “likely violated” the First Amendment and issued a preliminary injunction banning the government from communicating with social media companies to limit speech. California has long sought to impose speech limits on doctors , businesses , and citizens to silence opposing viewpoints.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 21, 2020

the outcomes in Georgia, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania were worryingly close.”. The Electoral College was designed as part of a republican model of government. Moreover, these electors could bring mature deliberations to such elections through representative government. As Justice Robert H. Blair , 43 U.S.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 31, 2022

The laws passed in states l ike Pennsylvania are not CRT prohibitions but required posting of teaching materials, syllabi, and scholastic achievement scores online. Greater transparency on public education (like other government programs) would seem a good thing.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 15, 2021

The biggest problem was that it constituted direct government regulation of media. The Constitution says there can be no law “abridging the free press,” and many of us agree with Justice Hugo Black’s view when he said: “I take ‘no law abridging’ to mean ‘no law abridging.’”.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

When the squirrel refused to return to the wild, they adopted him as a pet in their home in rural Pine City , near the Pennsylvania border. The family is expressing doubts over that account and accusing the government of the “fabrication of evidence.” Peanut then became an internet sensation.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 26, 2022

It is important to note that Republicans have also had courts rule against them in states like North Carolina and Pennsylvania). The limitation of the undue extension of power by any branch of government must be exercised to ensure that the will of the people is heard, no matter under which political placard those governing reside.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 31, 2022

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. And in 1981, she wrote one of the first law-review articles on domestic violence. Walter Dellinger (May 15, 1941 – Feb.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 26, 2023

The case arose from efforts by a group of Democratic members of Congress to obtain information from the General Services Administration about a 2013 lease for the Old Post Office, a government-owned building in Washington D.C., between the GSA and a company owned by former President Donald Trump.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

The government’s lawsuit raises questions of both whether it can sue and whether a court can remedy constitutional violations at this time. The Texas brief attacks the very claim of an injury with the words “ The federal government cannot get an abortion.” The practical and procedural problems are obvious. Casey , 505 U.S.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

They ask the court to side with the state to “affirm the constitutional authority of the federal and state governments to safeguard the lives and health of their citizens, born and not yet born.” The Christian Legal Society and Robertson Center for Constitutional Law , Concerned Women for America , and Judicial Watch, Inc.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

College newspapers have called on students to confront their racist relatives, and Abigail Adams of Indiana University of Pennsylvania gave students instructions for how to “decolonize” Thanksgiving. .” Here is the column: Thanksgiving dinners around the nation this year could come with a side of shame.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 12, 2020

Speaker Nancy Pelosi has also fueled such reckless rhetoric, declaring that the Republicans are “subverting the Constitution by their reckless and fruitless assault on our democracy which threatens to seriously erode public trust in our most sacred democratic institutions, and to set back our progress on the urgent challenges ahead.”.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 12, 2024

In his speech Friday near Valley Forge, Pennsylvania , Biden insisted that “ democracy itself is on the ballot ” and said that this election would determine if democracy can survive in the United States. Our Constitution ultimately is a leap of faith, not only in government but also in one another.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 12, 2021

As I wrote earlier , the governing legal standard for violent speech is found in Brandenburg v. Under that case, the government can criminalize speech that is “directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action and is likely to incite or produce such action.”. So let’s walk down Pennsylvania Avenue.”

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 6, 2022

Laurence Tribe declared, “This guy was inciting not just imminent lawless action, but the violent decapitation of a coordinate branch of the government, preventing this peaceful transition of power and putting a violent mob into the Capitol while he cheered them on.”. So let’s walk down Pennsylvania Avenue.” So what happened?

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JonathanTurley

JULY 5, 2021

From the prosecution of Bill Cosby to a federal lawsuit against Georgia, courts are dealing with cases where government lawyers repeat the same implausible claims with the same unconvincing results. In Pennsylvania, another prosecutor insisted that politics had nothing to do with a case. The Weisselberg indictment. The Cosby ruling.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 22, 2021

What Bundy is suggesting is that the state can regulate how you express opposition to politicians or the government. The ruling is reminiscent of the ruling of another judge in Pennsylvania in a case where a Muslim man attacked an atheist who wore a “Zombie Mohammed” costume on Halloween.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 11, 2021

So let’s walk down Pennsylvania Avenue.” The governing legal standard for violent speech is found in Brandenburg v. Under that case, the government can criminalize speech that is “directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action and is likely to incite or produce such action.”

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