SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Oklahoma , the Supreme Court ruled that the eastern half of Oklahoma remains “Indian country” for purposes of the Major Crimes Act , meaning that the federal government, not the state, has authority for prosecuting Native Americans for major crimes committed on reservations. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit upheld the CADA.

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SCOTUSBlog

AUGUST 30, 2024

Here’s the Friday morning read: Native voters can swing elections, but court ruling suppresses turnout, leaders say (Arlyssa D. Will, The Washington Post) The Supreme Court Just Signaled What It Will Do If the Election Is Close (Norman L. Probably so.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JULY 6, 2017

The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that a West Virginia federal district court had erred in concluding that it had jurisdiction to consider the coal company Murray Energy Corporation’s and its affiliates’ lawsuit that sought to compel EPA to conduct evaluations of the Clean Air Act’s employment effects. A-3393-15T4 et al.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Trump was indicted earlier this year in Washington, D.C., on four felony counts relating to efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. The state supreme court ruled that Trump was ineligible to appear on the ballot under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment to the U.S.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MARCH 6, 2018

The federal district court for the Eastern District of California held that more analysis of the impacts climate change would have on a water transfer program for the Sacramento/San Joaquin Delta was required under NEPA. The action involved closing valves on pipelines in Washington, Montana, Minnesota, and North Dakota.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

OCTOBER 7, 2019

The federal district court for the District of South Dakota temporarily enjoined enforcement of provisions of a riot boosting statute enacted in South Dakota in 2019 in response to anticipated protests of the Keystone XL pipeline. Washington High Court Declined to Review Decision Giving Pipeline Protester Right to Present Necessity Defense.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 24, 2024

Through various contortions, Bragg converted a dead misdemeanor case into 34 felonies in an unprecedented prosecution. New Yorkers and the media insisted that such selective prosecution was in defense of the “rule of law.” This week in the Supreme Court, a glimpse of the legal landscape outside of Manhattan came more sharply into view.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 2, 2024

You know, they’re all war hawks when they’re sitting in Washington in a nice building saying, oh, gee, we’ll, let’s send — let’s send 10,000 troops right into the mouth of the enemy.” Colorado, the Supreme Court ruled that criminal threats must be based on a showing of a culpable mental state. Even under Counterman v.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 26, 2022

After graduating from Yale in 2001, she spent a year working as an associate at Jenner & Block in Washington, D.C., Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit from 2002 to 2003. Circuit to the Supreme Court, where she clerked for Justice John Paul Stevens during the 2003-04 term. Kruger went from the D.C.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Major media from the Washington Post to National Public Radio routinely refer to the riot as an insurrection despite a deep disagreement over the characterization of the criminal conduct. That speech appears protected by the First Amendment and existing Supreme Court precedent. At 4:17 p.m., In Brandenburg v.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 15, 2023

South Carolina Conference of the NAACP to their merits calendar for the 2023-24 term as well as three other cases, including a dispute arising from former President Donald Trump’s lease of a government-owned building in Washington, D.C., and two cases involving the Armed Career Criminal Act. Relying on 5 U.S.C. United States and Jackson v.

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