Constitutional Law Laws Legal Vermont 
JonathanTurley
JUNE 22, 2022
He has also declared that terms like “legal vote” are racist. ” However, this is a historical and constitutional claim that should not go without some factual discussion or response. Law enforcement was relatively scarce at the time, even in the more populous states. In his famous 1770 defense of Capt.
JonathanTurley
JULY 30, 2021
Issues long debated over other grounds — the Senate’s filibuster rule , voter ID laws , even standardized testing , math , statistics and meritocracy — have all been reframed as a choice between racism and equality. Slavery was a matter discussed both at the Declaration of Independence and during the Constitutional debates.
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JonathanTurley
JUNE 8, 2021
School staff shall, at the request of a student or parent/legal guardian, when using a name or pronoun to address the student, use the name and pronoun that correspond to their gender identity.”. We previously discussed the Vermont principal who was removed for expressing her opinion of Black Lives Matter on her personal Facebook page.
JonathanTurley
MAY 24, 2021
The legal question is whether historical disparities are enough to justify a system of race and gender preferences when all restaurants were impacted by the pandemic. While legislative counsel and some legal experts raised concerns over the constitutionality of the law, a trial court rejected the challenge.
JonathanTurley
SEPTEMBER 23, 2023
It seems that we continue to struggle with a chief executive who goes on social media to personally attack judges who have ruled against his laws or policies. Trump would often savage judges for being Democrats or liberals when there were good-faith legal disagreements over his policies. No, it is not Donald Trump. Judge Roger T.
JonathanTurley
AUGUST 6, 2021
The Biden Administration took a little discussed but significant action this month in dropping a lawsuit against the University of Vermont Medical Center for allegedly forcing pro-life nurses to participate in abortions. In line with this, HHS removed the Notice of Violation issued against UVMCC last Friday. (A)
JonathanTurley
JANUARY 3, 2024
justices as being, in the words of law professor Cass Sunstein, “ illegitimate, undemocratic, and unprincipled.” Appeals of ballot decisions are pending in Arizona; ballot challenges are in process in Alaska, Maine , New York, New Jersey, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, South Carolina, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia and Wyoming.
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