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Worth Reading: The Eighth Circuit Finds Bar on 18-20 Year Olds Violates the Second Amendment

JonathanTurley

The opinion by Judge Duane Benton upholds a lower court in striking down a Minnesota law limiting gun permits for persons 21 years old. Minnesota has joined states like New York and Illinois in advancing weak arguments to the benefit of gun rights advocates. Jacobson in favor of the Second Amendment.

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SCOTUS Concludes Oral Arguments for the Term

Constitutional Law Reporter

Hennepin County, Minnesota : The case involvesHennepin County’s confiscation and sale of 93-year-old Geraldine Tyler’s former home as payment for approximately $15,000 in property taxes, penalties, interest, and costs. The County sold the home for $40,000, and, consistent with a Minnesota forfeiture statute, kept all proceeds.

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Supreme Court Holds Retaining Excess Value Violated Takings Clause

Constitutional Law Reporter

Facts of the Case Geraldine Tyler owned a condominium in Hennepin County, Minnesota, that accumulated about $15,000 in unpaid real estate taxes along with interest and penalties. The post Supreme Court Holds Retaining Excess Value Violated Takings Clause appeared first on Constitutional Law Reporter.

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Project Veritas Wins Victory Against New York Times In Defamation Action

JonathanTurley

The video claimed without named sources or verifiable evidence that the campaign for Representative Ilhan Omar, a Minnesota Democrat, was collecting ballots illegally (NYSCEF#8 and #9).

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No, Omar Cannot be Denaturalized on the Basis of her “Somalians First” Speech

JonathanTurley

The family would eventually move to Minnesota where Omar achieved the extraordinary distinction of becoming the first Somali-American legislator elected to Congress in 2017. Omar was born in Mogadishu, Somalia in 1982 and her family fled the country during the Somali Civil War.

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Police Groups Ask The University of Minnesota To Investigate Student’s Call To Make Life “Hell” For Officers

JonathanTurley

Minnesota Police and Peace Officers Association and the Law Enforcement Labor Services has taken the unusual (if not unprecedented) step of asking the University of Minnesota to investigate a student for her call to make the lives of campus police a living “hell.”

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Minnesota Law School Drops Exclusion of Whites and Males from Diversity Scholarship

JonathanTurley

There is a curious resolution of a civil right complaint against University of Minnesota Law School over a diversity fellowship sponsored by the law firm of Jones Day. Despite being created by a law firm and administered by a law school, the fellowship violated federal law in excluding white and male applicants.