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Supreme Court Upholds Ban on Encouraging Illegal Immigration

Constitutional Law Reporter

However, it went on to adopt a very narrow approach concluding that Congress used “encourage” and “induce” as terms of art referring to criminal solicitation and facilitation (thus capturing only a narrow band of speech). The post Supreme Court Upholds Ban on Encouraging Illegal Immigration appeared first on Constitutional Law Reporter.

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SCOTUS Narrows Reach of Identity Fraud Statute

Constitutional Law Reporter

The Court today rightly rejects that unserious position.” The post SCOTUS Narrows Reach of Identity Fraud Statute appeared first on Constitutional Law Reporter. “All of those individuals, the United States says, engage in conduct that can invite a mandatory 2-year stint in federal prison,” he said.

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Texas Supreme Court Lifts Restraining Order Protecting Democratic Legislators from Arrest

JonathanTurley

Cruz has demanded a correction from the Post in light of the Supreme Court decision. Obviously, the Texas Supreme Court viewed it as a clear because it reversed the district court within 24 hours. Indeed, it should have been corrected before the Texas Supreme Court decision. It is unlikely to do so.

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Ketanji Brown Jackson to Join SCOTUS as First Black Female Justice

Constitutional Law Reporter

Given her unique legal background, she may also be able to sway her colleagues to view issues her way, particularly in cases involving criminal law. With Supreme Court justices often serving until their eighties, Jackson likely has several decades to shape the Court’s jurisprudence.

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Trump’s Surprise Witness: Rep. Waters Becomes A Possible Witness Against Her Own Lawsuit

JonathanTurley

Moreover, they would fail under a lower standard of proof than the “beyond a reasonable doubt” standard in criminal law. Such a result would eviscerate the claim that Trump was guilty of criminal incitement in his speech. Yet, she called on people to stay in the streets and get more “confrontational.”

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Subpoena Tsunami: House Democrats Issue Hundreds of Secret Subpoenas Targeting GOP Colleagues and Others

JonathanTurley

What’s more, the Democratic House Judiciary Chairman denounced such secrecy demands just last month, saying “they deny American citizens, companies, and institutions their basic day in court and, instead, they gather their evidence entirely in secret.”.

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