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Biden to create bipartisan commission on Supreme Court reform

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The announcement fulfilled a campaign promise by the president, who last fall proposed the idea of a commission after he declined to endorse efforts by liberals to expand the Supreme Court – efforts that Justice Stephen Breyer criticized in a speech on Tuesday at Harvard Law School. Elise Boddie, professor of law and Judge Robert L.

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The Rise of Gotcha Legislation: Newsom and DeSantis are Legislating Soundbites and Voters are Loving it.

JonathanTurley

Once declared unconstitutional, the California law would return to little more than a soundbite (to quote Macbeth) full of “sound and fury, signifying nothing.”. 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.

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The Curious Fraud Case Against Trump Just Got ‘Curiouser’

JonathanTurley

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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“I Do Solemnly Swear”: Biden Calls tor Extending the Eviction Moratorium Despite Being Unconstitutional

JonathanTurley

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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Greater than Holmes? The life and legacy of John Marshall Harlan

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He is also a graduate of Columbia Law School. If the court had ordered that Jackson Giles and his 5,000 co-plaintiffs be registered as voters, it’s likely that, as Holmes feared, many Alabama officials would have defied the ruling. Harlan’s dissent proved influential in changing the constitutional law of the nation.

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The New Authoritarians: How Professors Are Now Calling for Biden to Simply Defy the Supreme Court

JonathanTurley

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. Other commentators and academics have gone from implied to open contempt for our constitutional norms. Those two statements were made roughly 60 years apart.

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Trumpunity: Sunstein Calls For Broader Use Of Defamation Lawsuit To Curtail “Fake News”

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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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