SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 29, 2022

Second, Tyler argues that even if McCoy announced a new rule, Teague allows for the retroactive effect of substantive rules of constitutional law that prohibit certain criminal laws or punishments (as opposed to procedural rules, which are not retroactive). Instead, Tyler seeks to bring his claim under Griffith v.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 2, 2023

Crowds burned Jay in effigy, including a Kentucky mob that stuffed its effigy with gunpowder, guillotined it, then blew it up. The first Chief Justice, John Jay, was so hated for that he once remarked that he could travel the “country at night by the light of [my] burning effigies.” One editorial declared: “John Jay, ah!

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

The site was sued by Sarah Jones, an ex-Bengals cheerleader and a former high school teacher in northern Kentucky, who was libeled on the site by commentators. District Judge William Bertelsman that the site is liable of defamatory statements by third parties and cannot claim immunity under the Communications Decency Act, 47 U.S.C. §

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SquirePattonBoggs

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

The Tennessee and Kentucky laws are concerned with the types of medical procedures that healthcare providers might prescribe minors suffering from gender dysphoria. Under both States’ laws, medical providers are generally banned from performing sex-transition surgeries for such minors. Majority Op. Williams v. Skrmetti , 73 F.4th

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 13, 2021

Associate Chief Justice Charles Johnson, in the majority opinion, wrote that when “individuals exercise their constitutional rights to criticize how the police are handling a situation, they cannot be concerned about risking a criminal conviction for obstruction.”. In Kentucky, the sponsor, Republican state Sen.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Kentucky , the Supreme Court held that “the privilege to remain silent is of a very different order of importance.from the ‘mere etiquette of trials and …the formalities and minutiae of procedure.'” ” The Court rejected such references or reliance by prosecutors as unconstitutional. Later in Carter v.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

1 , the court struck down as unconstitutional voluntarily adopted plans for assigning students to public schools in the racially diverse cities of Seattle, Washington, and Louisville, Kentucky. Seattle School District No. His 77-page opinion, which three other justices joined, was his longest as a justice.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 13, 2022

James Harlan served in Congress and as Kentucky’s attorney general, and was a devoted follower of Henry Clay, to the point that Clay’s politics and James’ were almost interchangeable. Kentucky , which upheld a state law banning interracial education even in private schools where everyone chose to learn together.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 11, 2022

But it fell short of that constitutional threshold. Not only that, but four states — Nebraska, Tennessee, Idaho, Kentucky — rescinded their prior ratifications; a fifth, South Dakota, set its ratification to expire if the ERA was not adopted by the 1979 deadline.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 27, 2022

Roughly 16 states are poised or expected to make abortion illegal immediately under so-called trigger laws. South Dakota, Louisiana and Kentucky have immediate prohibitions that will come into effect. In the Dobbs litigation of 2022, 26 states asked the court to overturn Roe and its successor, Casey. Thus, we remain deeply divided.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 15, 2021

4, 1861 because John Breckinridge, of Kentucky, had waited to see if Civil War could be avoided but then “joined the enemies of his country, and is now in arms against the Government he had sworn the support.” Keep in mind that the first Battle of Bull Run occurred on July 21, 1861. One senator was expelled on Dec.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Crowds burned Jay in effigy, including a Kentucky mob that stuffed its effigy with gunpowder, guillotined it, then blew it up. Then-Chief Justice John Jay was hated for his negotiation of what became known as the Jay Treaty with Great Britain; he was a target of Democratic-Republicans who considered the court a cabal of political activists.

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