Constitutional Law Reporter
APRIL 30, 2024
Facts of the Case After petitioner Damian McElrath killed his mother, the State of Georgia charged him with three crimes related to her death: malice murder, felony murder, and aggravated assault. The court vacated both the malice-murder and felony-murder verdicts pursuant to Georgia’s so-called repugnancy doctrine, and authorized retrial.
JURIST
APRIL 6, 2022
The Oklahoma House of Representatives voted Tuesday to enact a law that makes it a felony to perform or attempt to perform an abortion, except to save the life of the pregnant woman in a medical emergency. Since the Supreme Court refused to enjoin the Texas law in December 2021 in Whole Women’s Health v.
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Constitutional Law Reporter
DECEMBER 16, 2022
Supreme Court recently agreed to consider a case that is expected to define the scope of federal identity theft law. The appeals court found that the “plain meaning” of the word “use” is “to employ for the accomplishment of some purpose” or “ ‘to avail oneself of,” (quoting Black’s Law Dictionary 1776 (10th ed. Facts of the Case.
JonathanTurley
JUNE 7, 2023
At issue was the federal “felon-in-possession” law—18 U.S.C. § The federal law makes it “unlawful for any person. When his wife recently bought him a deer-hunting rifle, he learned that he was barred under federal law. See Saul Cornell, A New Paradigm for the Second Amendment , 22 LAW & HIST. 161, 165 (2004).
JonathanTurley
JANUARY 11, 2023
That appears to be the case of Emory law professor, Darren Hutchinson , who has claimed that the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia was “basically a Klansman.” Hutchinson recounted on Twitter how he taught a difficult lesson at Emory Law School on how “Justice Scalia was basically a Klansman.”
SCOTUSBlog
OCTOBER 28, 2022
922(g) prohibits people with felony convictions from possessing a firearm. More than two decades earlier, Jones was charged with violating the statute and, at his trial, testified that while he knew he had previously been convicted of a felony, he believed his record had been expunged. But the problem is the law, not the car.
JonathanTurley
APRIL 15, 2021
The United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit this week upheld an Ohio law that bans doctors from performing abortions when they know the reason a woman is seeking an abortion is that her baby has Down syndrome. The new law, H.B. It is a major win for pro-life advocates but could face an appeal to the Supreme Court.
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