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Constitutional Law Reporter
SEPTEMBER 8, 2023
Supreme Court upheld a federal law that criminalizes “encouraging or inducing” an immigrant to come or remain in the United States unlawfully. According to the Court, the law does not run afoul of the First Amendment. In United States v. Hansen , 599 U.S. _ (2023), the U.S.
JonathanTurley
JANUARY 3, 2021
Federal and state laws do apply on Indian reservations despite their status as self-regulating states. Smith (1990) , the Supreme Court rejected the claim of exemption of tribes from the federal criminal prohibition on the sue of peyote from the general application of its criminal laws. In Lyng v.
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JonathanTurley
SEPTEMBER 9, 2021
The Supreme Court ruled that tort law could not be used to overcome First Amendment protections for free speech or the free press. This has long been a controversial element under the FCA because it was largely the result of judicial not congressional construction. For Civil Rights Under Law, Inc. 47 U.S.C. §
SCOTUSBlog
JUNE 26, 2023
The question before the justices was whether a federal law that criminalizes “encouraging or inducing” an immigrant to come or remain in the United States unlawfully violates the First Amendment’s guarantee of the freedom of speech. Share On Friday the Supreme Court issued its decision in United States v.
JonathanTurley
MARCH 20, 2021
We recently discussed the case of University of North Carolina law student Sagar Sharma, a student of color, who faced a recall election as the first-year class co-president. The charges are connected to the prior controversy and raise serious free speech and retaliatory concerns at the law school. . First is SBA By-Law 11.2
JonathanTurley
JULY 23, 2023
The problem is that Wray has continued to refuse to answer the most basic questions about the FISA abuses, including a baffling denial that he even knew what “parallel construction” means in his testimony before this Committee this week. It hides the true origins of evidence from courts and in some cases, Congress.
JonathanTurley
FEBRUARY 5, 2024
The courts have left few options for either the states or Congress in compelling the enforcement of federal law. In that case, a 5-3 majority ruled against a state seeking to enforce immigration laws in light of what it described as a vacuum of federal action. if not earlier. United States and, most recently, in U.S.
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