Constitutional Law Reporter
JULY 12, 2023
Supreme Court ruled that Texas and Louisiana lacked standing to challenge a Biden Administration immigration enforcement policy. According to the eight-member majority, “federal courts are generally not the proper forum for resolving claims that the Executive Branch should make more arrests or bring more prosecutions.”
ClimateChange-ClimateLaw
AUGUST 4, 2021
The intermediate appellate court held that the defendant was not entitled to present the defense because he had “reasonable legal alternatives” to trespass and obstruction even if those alternatives were not effective. States Moved for Preliminary Injunction in Social Cost of Carbon Lawsuit in Louisiana. Louisiana v.
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SCOTUSBlog
APRIL 13, 2022
Having lived through Dred Scott , he was deeply conscious of how mistakes by the court could lead to terrible outcomes. Comparing court decisions with which he disagreed to Dred Scott was almost a reflexive tactic of his. In the Civil Rights Cases , he attacked the idea that Black people had been special favorites of the law.
JonathanTurley
JUNE 27, 2022
That world is already taking shape with states crafting their laws reflecting the values of their citizens from Colorado passing a law protecting the right to abortion up to the moment of birth to Louisiana banning all abortions except in limited circumstances. Thus, we remain deeply divided. The process just might surprise us.
SCOTUSBlog
NOVEMBER 30, 2021
For instance, the National Right to Life Committee and the Louisiana Right to Life Federation argue that the court should reject the “categorical viability line” and replace it with a new “roadmap” under which courts would consider all state interests when analyzing the constitutionality of prohibitions on pre-viability elective abortions.
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