JURIST
NOVEMBER 3, 2022
To be clear, Vermont does not currently allow either in any form, but there is antiquated language in the state constitution that allows for certain exceptions. In the Founding Era, numerous other states used Vermont’s constitution as a model when drafting their own constitution, including the slavery exceptions.
JonathanTurley
MARCH 7, 2021
There is no dispute that the Electronic Draft and the Letter were both literary works, which were recorded in writing in or before August 2018. Given that the Letter is entirely derivative of the Electronic Draft, there is an issue as to whether the requirement of originality is met.
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JonathanTurley
MARCH 6, 2023
The court ruled that “mere epithets” directed at a law enforcement officer are not exempt from First Amendment protections as fighting words. The Supreme Court has routinely ruled that the First Amendment protects profanity. In 1971, the Court ruled in Cohen v. California , 403 U.S. Hill , 482 U.S.
The Crime Report
AUGUST 11, 2022
“Expansion of the jury trial right would constitute a meaningful structural reform in democratizing criminal justice, at a time when such change is needed to establish the popular legitimacy of the criminal justice system,” writes J.D. King in a paper published in the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law.
SCOTUSBlog
DECEMBER 31, 2022
This spring, after POLITICO published a draft opinion of Dobbs and revealed that the court was poised to overturn Roe , Beckwith praised the leak. In court papers, she was identified only as “L.C.”. Four years later, her case reached the Supreme Court. Walter Dellinger (May 15, 1941 – Feb.
JonathanTurley
NOVEMBER 23, 2022
Nigrelli : where the court ruled that the private property exclusion violates the Second Amendment. The state might have been able to reinforce an important right of private business owners to exclude guns with a reasonable drafting of the law. The new decision comes from Judge John Sinatra (W.D.N.Y.) in Christian v.
SCOTUSBlog
JUNE 28, 2022
Justice Samuel Alito’s caustic opinion for the court, which is virtually identical to the February draft that was leaked two months ago, resembles an angry dissent rather than a ruling that speaks for a sober majority. Blind to irony, the majority casts itself in the role of the courageous unanimous court in Brown v.
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