Constitutional Law Reporter
JANUARY 30, 2023
Supreme Court has failed to discover who leaked a draft of the Court’s opinion in Dobbs v. According to the report, all of the Court employees interviewed affirmed under penalty of perjury that they did not disclose the Dobbs draft opinion to any person not employed by the Supreme Court. Santos-Zacaria v.
SCOTUSBlog
JULY 28, 2022
Dobbs is also the only example of a case where a complete draft of the majority opinion was leaked prior to the publication of the final draft. Politico’s release of an early draft of the opinion in Dobbs sent a whirlwind across the nation. The long lapse between Feb. Dobbs opinion vs. Dobbs leak.
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Constitutional Law Reporter
MARCH 10, 2022
The issues before the Court involved Native American law and immigration. United States : The case involves the Constitution’s double jeopardy clause and how it applies toa prosecution in the Court of Indian Offenses. Under the Immigration and Nationality Act ( 8 U.S.C. The justices heard oral arguments in three cases.
Conflict of Laws
MARCH 30, 2023
And as a matter of fact, the Constitutional Court decision itself is already almost two months old; it was rendered on February 1. This and the fact that the decision cites almost no sources published after 2019 except for new editions of commentaries, suggests that it may have existed as a draft for much longer.
SCOTUSBlog
APRIL 13, 2022
Yet his record is not unblemished: He distrusted immigrants from China and even voted to deny citizenship to their U.S.-born Harlan’s dissent proved influential in changing the constitutional law of the nation. Harlan’s moral vision is memorialized in his lone dissent in Plessy v. born children. Last year, Peter S.
JonathanTurley
JULY 9, 2022
Below is my column in the Hill on the effort to declare an “invasion” along the Texas border to allow the state to take greater control along the border to stem the flow of illegal immigrants. Greg Abbott signed an order allowing Texas law enforcement to return illegal immigrants apprehended in the state back to the U.S.
JonathanTurley
DECEMBER 8, 2020
Trump was about to sign his travel ban and had sent the draft to the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel, an office ordinarily given considerable deference on the legality of policies and orders. The career staff at the OLC had found that the order was legal and within Trump’s authority.
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