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Justices decline to reinstate GOP-backed congressional voting maps in North Carolina, Pennsylvania

SCOTUSBlog

Share The Supreme Court on Monday refused to block orders by courts in North Carolina and Pennsylvania that threw out the congressional maps enacted by the states’ Republican legislatures and replaced them with maps drawn by the trial courts. The North Carolina case. The North Carolina dispute, Moore v.

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SCOTUS Hears Oral Arguments in Four Cases

Constitutional Law Reporter

The issues before the Court included challenges to North Carolina’s voter ID law, the waiver of arbitration agreements, and international child custody disputes. The post SCOTUS Hears Oral Arguments in Four Cases appeared first on Constitutional Law Reporter. Please check back for updates.

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Do or DEI? Federal Judge Finds DEI Policies are Mandatory and Unconstitutional in California Case

JonathanTurley

In 2022, the American Bar Association required law schools to “provide education to law students on bias, cross-cultural competency, and racism: (1) at the start of the program of legal education, and (2) at least once again before graduation.” I have long incorporated race issues in my classes. The decision in Porter v.

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“Bakke to the Future”: Supreme Court Reconsiders Affirmative Action with a conservative Majority

JonathanTurley

University of North Carolina. University of North Carolina. The Harvard and North Carolina cases raise long-standing objections that universities are gaming the system by using ambiguous “critical mass” arguments on diversity to achieve the same results as formal quota systems.

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Ten Reasons Why the Biden Impeachment Inquiry is Justified

JonathanTurley

16] Andrew Prokop, How Much Legal Jeopardy is Hunter Biden In?, This hearing returned the impeachment process to a type of regular order in reserving judgment until all of the evidence could be acquired by the three committees. Post, March 20, 2022. [15] Post, May 10, 2023. [16] 11, 2023.

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Destroying Democracy to Save It: Democrats Lose Another Effort to Disqualify a GOP Member

JonathanTurley

It is premised on a deeply flawed historical and legal view of a provision under the Fourteenth Amendment. Justice Edwin Reade of the North Carolina Supreme Court later explained , “[t]he idea [was] that one who had taken an oath to support the Constitution and violated it, ought to be excluded from taking it again.”

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Showdown at TJ: How a Virginia High School Became The Latest Battleground Over Racial Discrimination

JonathanTurley

It began with a decision to drop admissions standards to achieve greater diversity, and now there is a fair possibility that this small high school will be the subject of a Supreme Court challenge with far-reaching legal, educational and social implications. Done: Instant equity.