Constitutional Law Court Statute Wisconsin 
JonathanTurley
DECEMBER 14, 2021
District Judge James Peterson this week upheld Wisconsin’s voter identification rules for college students. Peterson found that it does despite noting that ‘[i]f the question were whether the requirements at issue were likely to advance an important state interest, the court might well conclude that they don’t.
JonathanTurley
MAY 11, 2024
The Chief Judge of the Western Direct of Wisconsin, James Peterson (an Obama appointee), did not just reject but ridiculed the Elias Law Group challenge to a witness requirement for absentee voting. Elias have been previously sanctioned in court and accused of lying in the Steele dossier scandal by journalists and others.
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Constitutional Law Reporter
APRIL 11, 2023
Pennsylvania and Wisconsin , 598 U.S. _ (2023), the U.S. Supreme Court held that uncashed MoneyGram checks are governed by the Disposition of Abandoned Money Orders and Traveler’s Check Act (FDA) and should be returned to the state where they were issued. In Delaware v. It was Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s first opinion.
Constitutional Law Reporter
NOVEMBER 1, 2022
Supreme Court heard its first oral arguments of the 2022-2023 Term. The Court also welcomed new Justice Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson to the bench for her first session of oral arguments. The Court also welcomed new Justice Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson to the bench for her first session of oral arguments.
JonathanTurley
NOVEMBER 14, 2021
In covering the motions hearing last week in the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse, I noted a surprising comment from Judge Bruce Schroeder that he had “spent hours” with the Wisconsin gun law and could not state with certainty what it means in this case. It is also hard to instruct a jury on an ambiguous statute.
JonathanTurley
JUNE 21, 2021
Below is my column in the Hill on the growing number of losses by the Biden Administration in courts around the country, including a particularly embarrassing loss before the United States Supreme Court. Biden also lost a critical immigration fight when a federal court enjoined his 100-day moratorium on deportations.
JonathanTurley
OCTOBER 18, 2021
Bruen, the first major gun rights case before the Supreme Court in ten years. Justices have been openly discussing a case to push back on lower courts that have been chipping away at its Second Amendment jurisprudence. The court will soon take up New York State Rifle & Pistol Association Inc. Penal Law § 400.00(2)(f)
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