Constitutional Law Reporter

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Supreme Court held that challengers showed a reasonable likelihood of success on their claim that an Alabama Congressional redistricting plan likely violated Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. That new map was signed into law as HB1. The Court preliminarily enjoined Alabama from using HB1 in forthcoming elections. In Allen v.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

In Alabama Association of Realtors v. Realtor associations and rental property managers in Alabama and Georgia sued to enjoin the CDC’s moratorium. The post US Supreme Court Strikes Down Federal Eviction Ban appeared first on Constitutional Law Reporter. “Their answers impact the health of millions.”.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

JANUARY 1, 2024

Constitutional law took center stage in many U.S. In the latest redistricting dispute to reach the Court, the justices found that Alabama had diluted the power of Black voters by drawing a congressional voting map with a single district in which they made up a majority.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

AUGUST 28, 2023

Before trial, Smith moved to dismiss the indictment for lack of venue, citing the Constitution’s Venue Clause (Article III, §2, cl. The post SCOTUS Rules Retrial Is Constitutional After Conviction in Improper Venue appeared first on Constitutional Law Reporter. It thus does not trigger the Double Jeopardy Clause.”

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Constitutional Law Reporter

AUGUST 16, 2023

Before trial, Smith moved to dismiss the indictment for lack of venue, citing the Constitution’s Venue Clause (Article III, §2, cl. The post SCOTUS Rules Retrial Is Constitutional After Conviction in Improper Venue appeared first on Constitutional Law Reporter. It thus does not trigger the Double Jeopardy Clause.”

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Constitutional Law Reporter

MAY 3, 2021

Under Mississippi law at the time, murder carried a mandatory sentence of life without parole. Alabama, 567 U.S. The post Finding of Permanent Incorrigibility Not Required to Impose Life Sentence on Juvenile appeared first on Constitutional Law Reporter. The Supreme Court subsequently decided Miller v.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 23, 2021

Sullivan, sued for defamation and won under Alabama law. Sullivan’s lawsuit was one of a number of civil actions brought under state laws that targeted Northern media covering the violence against freedom marchers. seven times. The Montgomery Public Safety commissioner, L. He was awarded $500,000 — a huge judgment for the time.

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JURIST

APRIL 13, 2022

Two doctors joined two parents on behalf of their minor children to file a complaint Tuesday in federal court against the governor and the district attorneys of Alabama, Shelby County, and Jefferson County, to block Alabama’s Vulnerable Child Compassion and Protection Act (“VCCPA”) from going into effect on May 8, 2022.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Alabama , 219 U.S. ” Bailey involved an Alabama law making it a crime to refuse to do labor under a contract. Alabama , 219 U.S. ” Bailey involved an Alabama law making it a crime to refuse to do labor under a contract. 480, 484 (1990).

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 30, 2022

Bollinger declared an expectation that affirmative action would no longer be necessary in 25 years — a self-imposed expiration date that would be unheard of in any other area of constitutional law. Jackson emphatically voiced this view of the 14th Amendment earlier this month, in just her second day hearing arguments as a justice.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 16, 2021

In Alabama Association of Realtors v. Now this bizarre status of the undead moratorium has continued with a trial judge who first declared the CDC lacks authority to impose a new moratorium and then upheld that moratorium.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 9, 2021

Balkin, Knight Professor of Constitutional Law and the First Amendment at Yale Law School. Bob Bauer (co-chair), professor of practice, distinguished scholar in residence and co-director of the Legislative and Regulatory Process Clinic at New York University School of Law. Sovern Professor of Law at Columbia University.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The cases before the justices this session involve significant issues of constitutional law including due process, free speech, and gun rights. Marshall : The case arises out of the seizure and retention of the plaintiffs’ vehicles under Alabama’s Civil Asset Forfeiture (CAF) statute. Please check back for updates.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 21, 2021

Sullivan, sued for defamation and won under Alabama law. Sullivan’s lawsuit was one of a number of civil actions brought under state laws that targeted Northern media covering the violence against freedom marchers. seven times. The Montgomery Public Safety commissioner, L. He was awarded $500,000 — a huge judgment for the time.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Hunt , in which the Court struck down an Alabama law imposing a fee on all interstate waste coming into the state under the Dormant Commerce Clause. These would be deeply insulting to invoke in an immigration context. It would be the inverse of Chemical Waste Management, Inc.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 3, 2023

Even though the Alabama Supreme Court previously reduced the punitive award by half, the U.S. Jonathan Turley, an attorney, constitutional law scholar and legal analyst, is the Shapiro Chair for Public Interest Law at The George Washington University Law School.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 4, 2021

However, he then said it was worth extending the moratorium because it would take time for a court to intervene and, in the interim, they could rush out money to renters despite the lack of constitutional authority to do so. The 5-4 decision in Alabama Association of Realtors v.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

AUGUST 4, 2021

The Supreme Court called the appellate court’s conclusion that there are always reasonable legal alternatives to disobeying constitutional laws “untenable,” and held that “reasonable legal alternatives” must be effective. BP p.l.c. , Two amicus briefs were filed in support of the companies, one by the U.S. In Juliana v.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 13, 2022

In his Giles dissent, Harlan allowed that he would have granted the initial $2,000 challenge (which at least would have given the plaintiffs a chance to retool the case), but added that, based on his reading of the law, “the plaintiff is entitled to his relief in respect of his right to be registered as a voter.”. Why is this important?

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 7, 2022

Alito described the independent-state-legislature theory as “an exceptionally important and recurring question of constitutional law,” and he suggested that the justices “will have to resolve this question sooner or later, and the sooner we do so, the better.” He was referring to Merrill v. The Pennsylvania case.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 24, 2023

When “the Court’s interpretation of the Constitution is egregiously wrong,” the president should refuse to follow it. The first is from segregationist Alabama Gov. Those two statements were made roughly 60 years apart. George Wallace (D). The second was made by two liberal professors this month.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 27, 2020

Sullivan, sued for defamation and won under Alabama law. Sullivan’s lawsuit was one of a number of civil actions brought under state laws that targeted Northern media covering the violence against freedom marchers. seven times. The Montgomery Public Safety commissioner, L. He was awarded $500,000 — a huge judgment for the time.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 7, 2021

It was not created in or for the Jim Crow era — and Cato the Younger was not the junior senator from Alabama. In the United States, it can be traced to a procedural argument by former Vice President Aaron Burr to get rid of an automatic end to debate on bills in the early 1800s.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

In its 5-4 decision in Alabama Association of Realtors v. Department of Health and Human Services , the Supreme Court kept the CDC moratorium in place. However, five justices indicated that the CDC order as unconstitutional.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

A federal court found a non-racial purpose in the law to require a majority-supported election as a “bedrock ingredient of democratic political philosophy.” Ten states apply this rule to primaries: Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, and Vermont.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 26, 2023

Milligan , an Alabama voting-rights case involving similar issues. On June 8, a divided court ruled that the map drawn by Alabama’s Republican-controlled legislature likely violates Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, which bars racial discrimination in voting. House of Representatives.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 31, 2021

Mike Lee instead of Alabama Sen. According to CNN, Trump had a heated call around 2:20 with House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, who told him of the breach. ?Around Around 2:26, Trump mistakenly called Utah Sen. Tommy Tuberville. At 2:38, Trump called for his followers to be peaceful and to support police.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 27, 2021

In the prior decision, the Court ruled 5-4 decision in Alabama Association of Realtors v. In following Tribe’s advice, the Biden Administration increased the justices rejecting the basis for the moratorium from 5 or 6 members.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 3, 2024

He graduated from the University of Alabama with a degree in political science, where he was president of the College Democrats. Even normally favorable outlets like CNN have noted Sams’s refusal to address specific questions while lashing out at the Special Counsel or others. Sams has a long resume as a political staffer.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

The Supreme Court is expected to rule soon on one such race-based challenge to new districts in Alabama. The North Carolina opinion could complicate things for Democrats, however, if it is applied to other states with anti-gerrymandering laws.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 9, 2021

It means that a Constitution designed to prevent tyranny and authoritarianism becomes largely irrelevant if you put on a white lab coat. After all, the law was designed to control disease, not democracy, as a public health priority. In its 5-4 decision in Alabama Association of Realtors v.

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