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The Supreme Court Marshal Calls on States To Crackdown on Protesters

JonathanTurley

In a rare move, Supreme Court Marshal Gail Curley has sent letters to Maryland Gov. The letter seeks to use state laws to achieve what the Justice Department has clearly rejected under federal law. ” The state laws, however, would still face the same constitutional challenges. Curley wrote Gov.

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A minor impact on gun laws but a potentially momentous shift in constitutional method

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Barnett is the Patrick Hotung professor of constitutional law at the Georgetown University Law Center and the faculty director of the Georgetown Center for the Constitution. Bruen can be analyzed at the level of policy or at the level of constitutional method. New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v.

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August 2021 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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The Supreme Court called the appellate court’s conclusion that there are always reasonable legal alternatives to disobeying constitutional laws “untenable,” and held that “reasonable legal alternatives” must be effective. The court further found that EPCA’s legislative history did not support the plaintiff’s “expansive interpretation.”

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“Vote Reparations”: Law Professor Calls For The Votes of Black Americans To Count Twice

JonathanTurley

This proposal would decouple voting rights from cases and statutes designed to protect the equality of voting. Maryland, 4 Wheat. Giving citizens twice the voting power of other citizens is neither consistent nor compatible with our constitutional system. t is ours, too. It must be ours.”. ” McCulloch v. 579 (1819).

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“It Simply Does Not Make Any Sense”: Judge Trashes Election Lawsuit by the Elias Law Firm

JonathanTurley

District Judge James Peterson ruled against the lawsuit brought by the Elias Law Group, arguing that the witness requirement violated the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and Civil Rights Act of 1964. The state statute under § 6.87(2) The statute first sets forth in two sentences what the voter must certify on the ballot envelope.