Constitutional Law Reporter

DECEMBER 19, 2022

United States , which involves the scope of a key federal bribery law. The post Supreme Court Considers Scope of Federal Bribery Law appeared first on Constitutional Law Reporter. Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in four cases. One of the most closely watched is Percoco v. United States v.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 29, 2022

After McCoy , Tyler unsuccessfully sought relief in Louisiana state courts. Second, Tyler argues that even if McCoy announced a new rule, Teague allows for the retroactive effect of substantive rules of constitutional law that prohibit certain criminal laws or punishments (as opposed to procedural rules, which are not retroactive).

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 13, 2022

He is also a graduate of Columbia Law School. In the end, though, a large part of the story turned on the question of just what it was that enabled Harlan to see the law so differently from his peers. He was challenging the idea that Louisiana’s Separate Car Act was truly “separate but equal.” The back story.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

JULY 12, 2023

Supreme Court ruled that Texas and Louisiana lacked standing to challenge a Biden Administration immigration enforcement policy. The States of Texas and Louisiana claim that the Guidelines contravene two federal statutes that they contend require the arrest of certain noncitizens upon their release from prison ( 8 U.S.C.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

APRIL 22, 2024

Meanwhile, Vullo’s attorney argued that she was enforcing the law and that the NRA’s suit could encourage others to use the First Amendment to thwart valid enforcement actions. The post SCOTUS Considers Pair of High-Profile First Amendment Cases appeared first on Constitutional Law Reporter. Missouri In Murthy v.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

She subsequently reported Counterman to law enforcement. Law enforcement arrested Counterman on May 12, 2016, and charged him one count of stalking (credible threat), section 18-3-602(1)(b) ; one count of stalking (serious emotional distress), section 18-3-602(1)(c) ; and one count of harassment, section 18-9-111(1)(e), C.R.S.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 20, 2025

Charles Barzun is a Professor of Law at the University of Virginia, where he teaches Constitutional Law, Evidence, Jurisprudence, and Torts.He is currently working on a book on the American common law tradition. For there was a lurking radicalism in Souters brand of common law judicial philosophy.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Louisiana , the U.S. District Courts in Louisiana and Kentucky agreed with the plaintiffs and preliminarily enjoined enforcement of the rule in the plaintiff States. ” The post SCOTUS Upholds Preliminary Injunction Against Title IX Rule Granting Protections to LBGTQ Students appeared first on Constitutional Law Reporter.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

District Court for the Western District of Texas ruled that a Texas law requiring age-verification and warning labels about the alleged dangers of porn contravenes the First Amendment. The lawsuit challenged the Texas law, which was set to go into effect Sept. I do view this law as containing unconstitutional elements.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 18, 2022

When I was clerking in Louisiana after graduating law school, there was story of a rather notorious local judge asking counsel in a criminal case if he was ready to present the case of the defendant. That law has been treated as dormant given the 1973 decision in Roe v. Gleicher was appointed by Gov.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Homeland redacted much of this information on a now defunct board under FOIA Exemption 7(E), which protects “techniques and procedures for law enforcement investigations or prosecutions, or would disclose guidelines for law enforcement investigations.” ” That claim is itself chilling. Those words by Chief U.S.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 23, 2022

There is an interesting development out of a case in Louisiana where a federal judge has ruled that Dr. Anthony Fauci and White House officials must testify in a case alleging a backchannel for censorship on social media. The lawsuit filed by Missouri and Louisiana was joined by experts, including Drs. The complaint in Schmitt v.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 26, 2023

Robinson , in which Louisiana had asked the justices to review a ruling by a federal district court that would have required the state’s legislature to draw a new congressional map that included a second majority-Black district. At the same time, the justices took two cases in which they had granted review off their docket.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 15, 2022

The president, political allies and law professors have stressed the need to “protect the right of women to travel.” While a few legislators have suggested such laws , restricting travel has been tried before with consistently ruinous results before the court. Take travel. Follow him on Twitter @JonathanTurley.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 14, 2021

Here is what I precisely wrote on the Blount and Belknap impeachment in The Executive Function Theory, The Hamilton Affair, And Other Constitutional Mythologies , 77 North Carolina Law Review 1791 (1999): 1. William Blount (1798-99). His misdemeanor was to mis-demean himself; to misuse his office for his own speculative ends.”

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Jackson Women’s Health Organization , the potentially momentous abortion case concerning a Mississippi law banning abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy. The Christian Legal Society and Robertson Center for Constitutional Law , Concerned Women for America , and Judicial Watch, Inc. 1 in support of that law.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 6, 2023

Doughty are part of a 155-page opinion granting a temporary injunction, requested by Louisiana and Missouri, to prevent White House officials from meeting with tech companies about social media censorship. Here is the column: The most massive attack against free speech in United States history.” ” Those words by Chief U.S.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 31, 2025

The decision reverses the ruling of Judge Robert Rees Summerhays of the United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana, a Trump appointee. . …In sum[statues which prohibit Federal Firearms Licensees]from selling or delivering handguns to adults under the age of twenty-one.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 22, 2023

The term “shadow docket” is often credited to University of Chicago law professor William Baude who used it to describe the summary decisions in a law review article in 2015. He joined a dissent by Kagan in Louisiana v. ” The case will be heard in the Fifth Circuit in oral arguments on Wed., May 17 at 1 p.m.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 11, 2022

.” This is reflected in some of the most restrictive laws. For example, Oklahoma’s law expresses states “An act is not an abortion if the act is performed with the purpose to. ” Texas, Louisiana , and other states have the same express exemption. remove an ectopic pregnancy.”

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Above The Law

MARCH 21, 2025

In a series of recent decisions, federal courts across the United States have addressed a range of significant legal issues, from civil rights and constitutional law to administrative authority and criminal justice. Fontes , which involved election law and constitutional questions, and Foote v. Other Areas: 15 points.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 6, 2021

Here is the column: It is a touchstone of American constitutional law that nothing protects your right to shout “fire!” It is the use of a federal law to raise a challenge that has been raised in past elections over important issues of voter fraud or irregularity. Academics have debated this poorly drafted law for decades.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 27, 2022

That world is already taking shape with states crafting their laws reflecting the values of their citizens from Colorado passing a law protecting the right to abortion up to the moment of birth to Louisiana banning all abortions except in limited circumstances. Below is my Hill column on what to expect in a post-Roe world.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

The oral argument is scheduled for December 1st, the same week that the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit will hear an expedited appeal over the even more stringent Texas abortion law. Indeed, the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was a critic of Roe , seeing it as too sweeping in supplanting state laws.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 10, 2022

” Here is the column: “Major-question-land,” the term used by Louisiana solicitor general Elizabeth Murrill during Friday’s oral arguments over the Biden vaccine mandates, has an almost Disneyesque sound to it. That would impact policies across the legal landscape — from environmental laws to work-safety regulations to banking rules.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 21, 2021

What is notable is that such losses in the early days of the Trump Administration led to coverage declaring a war on the “rule of law” and even indications of authoritarianism. The image of Biden as restoring the Justice Department back into the good graces of the law and the courts is reinforced regularly in the media.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 17, 2021

Blount was a senator from Tennessee who was alarmed by a plan for Spain to cede what is now Louisiana to France. The Democrats are likely to rely on the case of William Belknap rather than William Blount. For Trump, it is Blount who should be the focus of the Senate.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

AUGUST 4, 2021

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. By Margaret Barry and Korey Silverman-Roati. and non-U.S. climate litigation charts. If you know of any cases we have missed, please email us at columbiaclimate@gmail.com.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 18, 2021

It was a reckless speech — but, in a court of law, it would constitute protected speech. William Blount of Tennessee faced allegations of conspiring to help Great Britain seize what is now Louisiana. Despite the strength of such defenses, the president must first decide whether he wants to sit for trial at all.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

The problem was that rampant fraud was alleged in Florida, Louisiana and South Carolina. Only then would the action make it into the “core reactor” equivalent of our constitutional system — the joint session of Congress. This would trigger a law passed after the Hayes-Tilden election. The electoral ‘reactor’.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 9, 2022

Despite the pledge to return to a respect for the “rule of law,” Biden openly suggested that they could use the litigation to get as much money out the door as possible before being barred by the courts. Biden admitted that his White House counsel and their preferred legal experts told him that the move was likely unconstitutional.

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