Constitutional Law Reporter

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

South Carolina State Conference of the NAACP : The redistricting suit challenges a South Carolina’s congressional map drawn by the state’s Republican-controlled legislature. The post Racial Gerrymandering Takes Center Stage as Court Considers Three Cases appeared first on Constitutional Law Reporter.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Almost a dozen states (including Idaho, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, Arizona, and North Dakota) have passed legislation to bar CRT and roughly a dozen more are considering such legislation. A coalition of educators and public interest groups has sued states like Oklahoma over such laws.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Other schools at the bottom of the list include the University of Pennsylvania, Georgetown University, the University of South Carolina and Fordham University. The placement of the University of South Carolina at the bottom of the list is a testament to the resistance of some administrators and faculty members to free speech.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Black churches feeling like they are going to get shot up, like at a Bible study that’s happened in South Carolina. But strategically, what appears to be happening is they want to deny people the safe haven and safe harbor, whether we’re talking about kids in school feeling unsafe because of guns.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 5, 2021

When the Constitution was written, the Framers expressly warned of the need to keep the federal government at bay in elections. The resulting litigation could leave core election rules in doubt heading into the next round of elections.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 21, 2020

South Carolina v. It is designed to give certain voters more power than their fellow citizens. That would run counter to a long line of cases seeking to counter the “blight of racial discrimination in voting.” Katzenbach, 383 U.S. 301, 308, 86 S.Ct. 803, 15 L.Ed.2d 2d 769 (1966).

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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

JANUARY 31, 2022

during a break in the debate ; Clyburn then gave Biden his critical endorsement before the key South Carolina primary. In March 2019, Biden said during a Democratic primary debate that he would only consider black females for the next Supreme Court vacancy. It was a promise elicited by Rep. James Clyburn (D-S.C.)

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 28, 2021

Andy Harris of Maryland and Ralph Norman of South Carolina formally announced impeachment articles against Secretary of State Antony J. Once again, the use of impeachment to address such policy and programmatic “failures” would fundamentally change the purpose of impeachment in our constitutional system.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 7, 2021

The election was marred by open fraud, including South Carolina certifying a vote of 101% of the eligible voters. The commission was formed after the contested 1876 presidential election of Democrat Samuel Tilden and Rutherford Hayes.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 29, 2021

But Biden is correct that some of the most abusive uses of the filibuster was by segregationists in the 1950s, as embodied in Strom Thurmond, a South Carolina Democrat, who set the record with filibustering the Civil Rights Act for over 24 hours. It was not created in the Jim Crow era.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 6, 2021

Here is the column: It is a touchstone of American constitutional law that nothing protects your right to shout “fire!” The 1876 presidential election between Rutherford Hayes and Samuel Tilden threw the country into a crisis when electoral votes from South Carolina, Louisiana, and Florida, were challenged.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 3, 2024

Appeals of ballot decisions are pending in Arizona; ballot challenges are in process in Alaska, Maine , New York, New Jersey, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, South Carolina, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia and Wyoming. He teaches a course on the Supreme Court and the Constitution.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 30, 2022

I’m looking forward to making sure there’s a black woman on the Supreme Court, to make sure we, in fact, get every representation,” he said in a South Carolina debate. Biden pledged to select the next justice first and foremost on race and sex. This reportedly helped win him the key endorsement of Rep.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 3, 2024

Marco Rubio, South Carolina Sen. The Trump short list for vice presidential candidates is reportedly down to Ohio Senator, J.D. Vance, Florida Sen. Tim Scott and North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

The problem was that rampant fraud was alleged in Florida, Louisiana and South Carolina. For example, South Carolina reported 101 percent of voters voting). Like Biden, Tilden won the popular vote and more electoral votes (184, to Hayes’s 165). The controversy led to rival sets of electors being sent to Congress.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Indeed, adhering to the living-Constitution theory may be the only pro-life position tolerated in a Biden nominee. Virtually all of the nominees on Biden’s rumored short list run from the left to the far left of constitutional interpretation. Yet one favorite is South Carolina District Court Judge J. James Clyburn (D-S.C.);

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