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Fired High School Coach Sues Massachusetts School In Free Speech Lawsuit

JonathanTurley

There have been a variety of reported conflicts in school districts over curriculum changes and materials addressing racism, including the recent controversy in New York where white families were asked to chose between such “white identities” as “white supremacist” and “white traitor.”

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SCOTUS to Clarify Standard for Determining Whether True Threat Exception Applies

Constitutional Law Reporter

By contrast, the Ninth and Tenth Circuits, as well as Kansas, Massachusetts, North Carolina, and Rhode Island, use a subjective standard, requiring proof that the speaker intended the statement as a threat. apply versions of an objective standard that focuses on how reasonable people would interpret the speaker’s words.

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

JonathanTurley

Even the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) seemed to yield to this movement during the pandemic by dropping the use of standardized testing requirements. In other words, it helped students find institutions where they were most likely to thrive.

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Term limits emerge as popular proposal at latest meeting of court-reform commission

SCOTUSBlog

But as Vicki Jackson, a professor of constitutional law at Harvard Law School, explained, 12 years may be too short and could allow a two-term president to appoint six of the nine justices. An 18-year term limit would mean a new justice every two years – or two appointments per presidency.

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Biden’s “Come on, Man” Defense Will Not Fly on Religious Freedom

JonathanTurley

Massachusetts, upholding a state small pox vaccine mandate. That mandate previously was upheld by conservative judge Frank Easterbrook, who wrote for an unanimous Seventh Circuit panel that “each university may decide what is necessary to keep other students safe in a congregate setting.”

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Tenth Circuit Rules Web Designer Must Create Site For Same-Sex Marriage

JonathanTurley

The case involved Charlie Craig and David Mullins who went to the Colorado cake shop of Jack Phillips to order a cake celebrating their earlier marriage in Massachusetts. Colorado Civil Rights Commission. Phillips declined on religious grounds. He is willing to sell pre-made cakes to anyone but not decorate a cake for a same-sex marriage.

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The Maine Event That Wasn’t: Bellows Fails Again to Force a Ruling on Disqualification

JonathanTurley

With other states like Massachusetts ruling this week against disqualification , Colorado will remain the outlier as the only state supreme court willing to embrace this dangerous and anti-democratic theory. Courts in ultra liberal states like Massachusetts and Michigan have ruled against disqualification.

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