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California Dreaming: Newsom’s Kidnapping Claim Against DeSantis is Long on Politics and Short on the Law

JonathanTurley

Attorney for the District of Massachusetts, announced that she was taking a look, “long and hard,” at potential charges. Newsom cited the kidnapping statute but apparently failed to read it or the underlying cases. To great acclaim, Rachael Rollins, then the U.S. state once they are released by the federal government.

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

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But the group does support a constitutional amendment imposing 18-year term limits and allowing each sitting president to fill two seats per four-year term, although the group believes that term limits imposed by statute would pose constitutional issues. Gabe Roth, executive director of Fix the Court, presented a different view.

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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. The categorical rejection of any religious-exemption case runs against the grain of the Constitution as well as federal statutes. He cited the Supreme Court’s 1905 ruling in Jacobson v. However, there was one major difference in Klaassen v.

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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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Circuit Scoop — February 2025

Above The Law

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. Area of Law: Constitutional Law, Civil Rights, Federal Authority: 25 points. Other Areas: 15 points.

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Federal Judge Halts Trump Administration’s Deportation of Half a Million Biden “Parolees”

JonathanTurley

In Massachusetts, District Judge Indira Talwani is preventing President Donald Trump from canceling a Biden program granting parole and the right to work to immigrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela.

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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. First Circuit Vacated Stay Order in Lawsuit Alleging Exxon Failed to Prepare Petroleum Terminal for Climate Change.

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