JonathanTurley
JUNE 22, 2022
States opposed to slavery, like Vermont, Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, New York and Rhode Island, had precursor state constitutional provisions recognizing the right to bear arms. NPR breathlessly billed its interview as “ Historian Carol Anderson Uncovers The Racist Roots Of The Second Amendment.”.
JonathanTurley
SEPTEMBER 27, 2021
New Hampshire , the Supreme Court followed a “two-tied approach” that allowed for restrictions in certain defined areas like fighting words and obscenity. In Chaplinsky v. 568, 571-72 (1942).
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JonathanTurley
MAY 12, 2021
New Hampshire , 315 U.S. National Ass’n for the Advancement of Colored People v. Button, 371 U.S. 415, 445 (1963). Even with the Supreme Court’s allowance for the criminalization of “fighting words” in cases like Chaplinsky v. 568, 572 (1942), the Court has sharply abridged the application that exception.
JonathanTurley
JUNE 12, 2021
New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island and other states had similar precursors to the Second Amendment. The Framers had just overthrown a tyrant and the image of the militia and the famed “Minutemen” remained fixed in the minds of many at the time.
JonathanTurley
JULY 30, 2021
Slavery was a matter discussed both at the Declaration of Independence and during the Constitutional debates. States opposed to slavery, like Vermont, Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, New York and Rhode Island, had precursor state constitutional provisions recognizing the right to bear arms.
JonathanTurley
OCTOBER 6, 2023
Conversely, the top performers this year are, notably, all public universities — Michigan Technological University, Auburn University, the University of New Hampshire, Oregon State University, and Florida State University.
JonathanTurley
DECEMBER 9, 2021
Almost a dozen states (including Idaho, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, Arizona, and North Dakota) have passed legislation to bar CRT and roughly a dozen more are considering such legislation. A coalition of educators and public interest groups has sued states like Oklahoma over such laws.
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