Constitutional Law Reporter

APRIL 4, 2022

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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OCTOBER 24, 2021

However, there is a new ruling out of North Carolina that could present another opportunity for the Court to revisit the issue. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina just ruled that UNC can use race criteria to guarantee a “critical mass” of minority students in its classes. .”

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Constitutional Law Reporter

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

University of North Carolina , the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the college admissions programs of Harvard University and the University of North Carolina. The Court held that the raced-based policies violated the Constitution’s Equal Protection Clause. In Students for Fair Admissions v.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Those efforts received a boost recently from the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, which rejected the free speech claims of North Carolina State University Professor Stephen Porter. Board of Trustees of North Carolina State University is pending before the Supreme Court for possible review.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 31, 2022

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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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Board of Trustees of North Carolina State University. The work not only discusses the recent 303 Creative ruling of the Supreme Court, but an important case now pending before the Court for possible review, Porter v.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 26, 2022

The Court’s resolution of admissions challenges at Harvard and the University of North Carolina may bring greater clarity in the area. The Court is considering two major college admissions cases , which also allege racial discrimination against Asian students.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

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.

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Above The Law

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

appeared first on Above the Law. ‘What a relief to have nothing to say, the right to say nothing, because only then is there a chance of framing the rare, or ever rarer, the thing that might be worth saying.’ - Gilles Deleuze, Negotiations The post Hey Judge, I Thought That State-Compelled Speech Was A No No?

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 4, 2023

the University of North Carolina between Justice Amy Coney Barrett and David Hinojosa is the director of the Educational Opportunities Project at the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law: JUSTICE BARRETT: One question.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 10, 2023

University of North Carolina. However, it also means that other faculty are barred due to their race or sexual orientation or identity.Title VI of the Civil Rights Act prohibits “discrimination based on race, color or national origin in programs or activities that receive Federal financial assistance.”The Bakke (1978).

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JonathanTurley

MAY 5, 2021

She was also left off the starters in the next game against North Carolina. She was pulled as a starters in the next game against Clemson and again Adair allegedly berated her publicly. She claims that the abuse and shunning became so great that she was forced to resign. One issue may be that she elected to resign.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 10, 2022

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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JonathanTurley

APRIL 15, 2022

The Court’s consideration of admissions challenges at Harvard and the University of North Carolina may bring greater clarity for higher education. Indeed, Oregon recently achieved equity in graduation rates by simply suspending the need to be proficient in reading, math, and writing. Done: Instant equity.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 20, 2021

We recently discussed the case of University of North Carolina law student Sagar Sharma, a student of color, who faced a recall election as the first-year class co-president. The recall was based on Sharma stating that he did not consider an argument between two fellow students to be racist.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 21, 2022

After the law went into effect over a veto by the state’s governor, Democrat Roy Cooper, the North Carolina NAACP went to federal court, arguing that the law violates both federal voting rights laws and the Constitution. In Berger v. Doesn’t that just make things more complicated?”.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 23, 2022

Moore argues that unlike other constitutional provisions, the clause does not refer to the state itself, but a particular institution of government. Last November, the North Carolina legislature enacted a new map for congressional elections in response to the 2020 U.S. We begin with a case that is a potential blockbuster.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

JANUARY 3, 2023

The redistricting map at issue was initially drawn by the North Carolina General Assembly, but it was thrown out by the North Carolina Supreme Court as an “egregious and intentional partisan gerrymander” and replaced with one drawn by a court-appointed special master.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

University of North Carolina, which are poised to determine the role of affirmative action in college admissions. The post Affirmative Action Kicked Off Busy Week for SCOTUS appeared first on Constitutional Law Reporter. Supreme Court had a busy week, hearing oral arguments in five cases. Harvard College and SFFA v.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 31, 2024

University of North Carolina. Critics are still unclear on how Jones Day and Minnesota Law School will achieve its diversity goals without applying such a preference, even if the applications are not limiting on the basis of race. President & Fellows of Harvard College and Students for Fair Admissions, Inc.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

.” The First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, and Eleventh Circuits, as well as Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Connecticut, California, Hawaii, Iowa, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, North Dakota, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Washington, and Washington D.C., Oral arguments will be held on April 19, 2023.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 30, 2021

A federal case in North Carolina recently resulted in $75 million in damages for two wrongly convicted men but that award was in the federal system. Tom Wolf included in his budget plan a proposal for Pennsylvania to pay people who were wrongly convicted $50,000 for each year that they were held behind bars.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 12, 2024

As I discussed in my new book , conservative North Carolina professor Dr. Mike Adams faced calls for termination for years with investigations and cancel campaigns. The effort to assure citizens that “there is nothing to see here” is belied by a massive censorship system described by one federal court as “Orwellian.”

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Elenis: A web designer challenging Colorado’s public accommodations law after declining to provide services for the marriages of same-sex couples. University of North Carolina: Challenges to the use of race as a criterion in college admissions. Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard College/Students for Fair Admissions v.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 27, 2022

Sullivan , and whether to take up a redistricting case from North Carolina that could upend federal elections. But on Monday, the justices added only one case , involving courts’ power over bankruptcy disputes, to their docket for the 2022-23 term. The justices did not act on Dr. A v.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 8, 2022

University of North Carolina criminology professor Mike Adams spent years in university proceedings and litigation successfully fighting for his right to express conservative views. The investigations and attacks never stopped.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 8, 2022

One such campaign led to a truly tragic outcome with criminology professor Mike Adams at the University of North Carolina (Wilmington). He then tweeted a condemnation of North Carolina Gov. Adams was a conservative faculty member with controversial writings who had to go to court to stop prior efforts to remove him.

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 28, 2022

Harper (concerning the controversial “independent state legislature” theory of election law), United States v. Texas (concerning President Joe Biden’s immigration policies), and two cases involving Harvard and the University of North Carolina revisiting the issue of affirmative action in higher education.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Ten states apply this rule to primaries: Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, and Vermont. That part of the opinion was upheld by the appellate court , though the court was reversed on other grounds.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 7, 2023

That is not the case with a mathematical challenge raised to the dissent of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson in the North Carolina affirmative action case. For marginalized communities in North Carolina, it is critically important that UNC and other area institutions produce highly educated professionals of color.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

Elenis : A web designer challenging Colorado’s public accommodations law after declining to provide services for the marriages of same-sex couples. University of North Carolina : Challenges to the use of race as a criterion in college admissions. Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard College/Students for Fair Admissions v.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 30, 2023

Indeed, the rulings in cases involving Harvard and the University of North Carolina ended decades of muddled 5-4 decisions. Yet, President Joe Biden seemed to go into full attack mode and actually claimed that the Court gutted the constitutional guarantee that “all men and women are created equal.”

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 25, 2025

However, for Jackson, it was immaterial since she was allowed to vote in the sister case involving the University of North Carolina. It is reminiscent of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s recusal in the Harvard affirmative action case due to herclose ties to that institution. The case will be argued in April. Isidore Opinion

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

A professor at the University of North Carolina recently sent me an article on a “free speech event” held at the UNC Center for Media Law and Policy as part of the University’s 13th First Amendment Day celebration. Indeed, it often seemed like a collection of vegans assembled to “celebrate” meat-based diets.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 30, 2022

Bollinger declared an expectation that affirmative action would no longer be necessary in 25 years — a self-imposed expiration date that would be unheard of in any other area of constitutional law.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 26, 2022

It is important to note that Republicans have also had courts rule against them in states like North Carolina and Pennsylvania). This is the first time that a congressional map has been thrown out in the history of the state. (It

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JonathanTurley

JULY 8, 2021

This is the one-year anniversary of the move to force a criminology professor named Mike Adams off the faculty of the University of North Carolina (Wilmington). He then tweeted a condemnation of North Carolina Gov. It was a stupid and offensive tweet.

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