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South Carolina Legislators Move to Criminalize Sharing Abortion Information

JonathanTurley

The South Carolina legislature is moving to enact a new law with deeply troubling free speech implications. In my view, the law violates the First Amendment and should be scuttled by the legislature. The language below is reminiscent of laws making it illegal to share information on committing suicide.

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Andy Warhol’s artwork, Arizona’s capital sentencing, and more on armed career criminals

SCOTUSBlog

South Carolina that in cases where a capital defendant’s future dangerousness is at issue, due process entitles the defendant to inform the jury that he will be ineligible for parole if not sentenced to death. Arizona applied a settled rule of federal law that must be applied to cases pending on collateral review in Arizona.

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Justices take up challenge to purported racial gerrymander in South Carolina’s congressional map

SCOTUSBlog

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., The justices added Alexander v. and two cases involving the Armed Career Criminal Act.

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