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“Does the Gentlelady Have a Problem?” : Yes, Delegate Plaskett Most Certainly Has a Problem

JonathanTurley

Plaskett rose to demand recognition and to know why she was not allowed to vote: “I note that the names of representatives from American Samoa, Guam, Northern Mariana, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and the District of Columbia were not called, representing, collectively, 4 million Americans.

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SCOTUS Kicks Off February Session With Four Cases

Constitutional Law Reporter

Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico v. The post SCOTUS Kicks Off February Session With Four Cases appeared first on Constitutional Law Reporter. Centro de Periodismo Investigativo, Inc.: Under Dellmuth v. Muth , 491 U.S.

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SCOTUS Hears Oral Arguments in Five Cases

Constitutional Law Reporter

Vaello-Madero : The case concerns whether Congress can exclude Puerto Rico from federal disability benefits. The post SCOTUS Hears Oral Arguments in Five Cases appeared first on Constitutional Law Reporter. ” Ramirez v. ” Ramirez v.

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Greater than Holmes? The life and legacy of John Marshall Harlan

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controlled Philippines, Puerto Rico, or Hawaii, he always believed that treating one group of people differently from others was a recurrence of the old cancer. Harlan’s dissent proved influential in changing the constitutional law of the nation. As you describe it, conservatives saw the tax as “Socialism in action.

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“Reclaim America from Constitutionalism”: Law Professors Now Call to “Pack the States” Rather than “Pack the Court”

JonathanTurley

The solution, therefore, is not to “pack the court” but “to pack the Union with new states” to change the Constitution and “reinvent” society. The essay confirms the view of critics that the push of Democrats to create new states in Puerto Rico and D.C.