Constitutional Law Court Laws Vermont 
JURIST
NOVEMBER 3, 2022
Come November 8, Vermont residents will have the opportunity to amend their state constitution and abolish slavery and indentured servitude for good. To be clear, Vermont does not currently allow either in any form, but there is antiquated language in the state constitution that allows for certain exceptions.
HowAppealing
JUNE 3, 2021
“Chances grow that Supreme Court will take up Maine’s ban on religious school funding”: Matthew Stone of The Bangor Daily News has an article that begins, “A new federal court opinion in Vermont improves the chances that a Maine case challenging the state’s ban on public funding for religious schools could end up before (..)
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JonathanTurley
JANUARY 3, 2024
Below is my column in The Messenger on the challenge facing the Supreme Court in the coming week over the electoral disqualification of former president Donald Trump in Colorado and Maine. The appeal in Maine has been filed and can now work its way up to the Court. Colorado is expected to file with the Court this week.
JonathanTurley
DECEMBER 29, 2023
Now, a filing in the Supreme Court supporting censorship efforts by the Biden Administration has supplied a handy list of the anti-free speech states for citizens. Not surprisingly, the state of California is leading the effort to get the Supreme Court to reverse a decision enjoining the government from censorship efforts.
JonathanTurley
SEPTEMBER 23, 2023
It seems that we continue to struggle with a chief executive who goes on social media to personally attack judges who have ruled against his laws or policies. There are good-faith arguments that these bans contradict Supreme Court cases on the scope and meaning of the Second Amendment. No, it is not Donald Trump. Judge Roger T.
JonathanTurley
MAY 24, 2021
So a ruling by a federal district court in Texas this week was particularly jarring: Judge Reed O’Connor found that the Biden administration engaged in systemic gender and race discrimination to implement COVID-19 relief for American restaurants. The government cited historical barriers for minority enterprises, but the court balked.
JonathanTurley
APRIL 19, 2021
They would instantly become part of a larger state with greater resources and greater success in areas ranging from education to courts to infrastructure. can legitimately point to a population roughly equal to Vermont’s and greater than Wyoming’s. While Vermont and Wyoming have smaller populations, D.C. Indeed, D.C.
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