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Supreme Court Rules States Can’t Challenge Federal Immigration Policy

Constitutional Law Reporter

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.”

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Supreme Court Considers Scope of Federal Bribery Law

Constitutional Law Reporter

Supreme Court heard oral arguments in four cases. United States , which involves the scope of a key federal bribery law. Below is a brief summary of the other cases before the Court: Ciminelli v. The justices have agreed to clarify the states’ ability to challenge federal immigration policy, among other issues.

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The Defunct Disinformation Governance Board Sought to Censor Opposing Views on Racial Justice, the Afghan Withdrawal and Other Political Subjects

JonathanTurley

support to Ukraine” as well as “irregular immigration.” Recently, a court found that the Biden Administration’s censorship efforts constituted “ the most massive attack against free speech in United States history. withdrawal from Afghanistan, and the nature of U.S. Those words by Chief U.S.

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August 2021 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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Washington Supreme Court Said Climate Activist Was Entitled to Present Necessity Defense Based on Evidence that Legal Alternatives Were Not “Truly Reasonable”. The Supreme Court reversed an intermediate appellate court’s decision affirming a superior court determination that the defendant could not present a necessity defense.

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

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During his time as an associate justice from 1877 to 1911, he broke with his colleagues in some of the most consequential – and infamous – rulings that the court has ever issued. Yet his record is not unblemished: He distrusted immigrants from China and even voted to deny citizenship to their U.S.-born born children.

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We read all the amicus briefs in Dobbs so you don’t have to

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Numerous groups attack the viability standard that the court adopted in Roe v. Many amici focus on the principle of stare decisis – and urge the court not to follow it in this case. They say Roe and Casey are not worthy of the deference that the court typically affords to its prior decisions. Wade and Planned Parenthood v.

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Biden’s Bad Run: Is The Biden Administration Doing Worse Than The Trump Administration In The Courts?

JonathanTurley

Below is my column in the Hill on the growing number of losses by the Biden Administration in courts around the country, including a particularly embarrassing loss before the United States Supreme Court. The Supreme Court later upheld the core elements of the travel ban and rejected the general claims raised against it.)

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