JURIST
JUNE 27, 2023
Three Virginia citizens disqualified from voting due to felony convictions joined a nonprofit organization to file a lawsuit Monday in federal court against Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin and several state elections officials. The action challenges the felony disenfranchisement provision of the Virginia Constitution.
The Crime Report
APRIL 14, 2022
In most urban and suburban areas, particularly in Texas, it’s “nearly impossible to go about one’s day without entering a school zone,” which in turn conflicts with a citizen’s ability to exercise a right guaranteed under the Constitution, as interpreted by the Supreme Court, writes Tyler Smotherman, a J.D.
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SCOTUSBlog
JANUARY 8, 2024
Singh , in which the court will consider what kind of notice the government must provide before a noncitizen can be deported for not appearing in court. Sheetz came to the Supreme Court, asking the justices to apply the court’s Nolland/Dolan test and find the county’s fee a violation of the takings clause. Under 8 U.S.C.
The Crime Report
MARCH 11, 2022
A law passed by Texas legislators has been temporarily blocked by an Austin court after a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union of Texas and Lambda Legal on behalf of the parents of a transgender teenager who was being investigated for abuse by the Department of Family and Protective Services.
The Crime Report
MARCH 15, 2022
Recently in Missouri, a state representative introduced a measure that would let people sue anyone they suspect of helping a resident get an abortion in another state, while an Idaho bill seeking to ban gender-affirming care for youth would have made it a felony to help a child access care outside the state.
SCOTUSBlog
APRIL 23, 2024
Share Less than a month after the justices heard oral arguments in a case seeking to roll back access to one of the drugs used in medication abortions, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Wednesday in another case involving abortion. United States and Idaho v. In the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v.
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