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August 27, 2025 | SCOTUS Lifts Injunction Blocking Trump Administration’s Plans to Reduce Federal Workforce

Month: January 2018

SCOTUS Kicks Off New Year Hearing Five Oral Arguments

SCOTUS Begins New Year With Five Oral Arguments

The justices of the U.S. Supreme Court returned to the bench on January 8, 2018. The first week of oral arguments in 2018 included two original jurisdiction cases involving state disputes over water rights, two important Fourth Amendment cases, and o...

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The Impact of Recreational Cannabis Legalization on New Jersey Municipalities

The Impact Of Recreational Cannabis Legalization On New Jersey Municipalities

As New Jersey looks to legalize recreational cannabis, municipalities will have some tough decisions to make. Many are in the process of forming task forces and committees to determine how legalization may impact their city or town and whether the po...

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SCOTUS To Address Political Clothing in Polling Locations in Minnesota Voters Alliance v Mansky

SCOTUS to Address Political Clothing at Polling Places in Minnesota Voters Alliance v Mansky

The U.S. Supreme Court has granted certiorari in yet another important First Amendment case. The issue in Minnesota Voters Alliance v Mansky is whether a Minnesota law, which broadly bans all political apparel at polling locations, violates the First...

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Supreme Court Pauses Order Reinstating CPSC Commissioners
by DONALD SCARINCI on August 21, 2025

In Trump v. Boyle, 606 U.S. ____ (2025), the U.S. Supreme Court granted the Trump Administration’...

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Divided Court Allows President to Fire Agency Officials
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In Trump v. Wilcox, 605 U.S. ____ (2025), the U.S. Supreme Court granted the Trump Administrationâ€...

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SCOTUS Grants Death Row Inmate New Trial in Glossip v. Oklahoma
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In Glossip v. Oklahoma, 604 U.S. ____ (2025), the U.S. Supreme Court granted death row inmate Richa...

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The Amendments

  • Amendment1
    • Establishment ClauseFree Exercise Clause
    • Freedom of Speech
    • Freedoms of Press
    • Freedom of Assembly, and Petitition
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  • Amendment2
    • The Right to Bear Arms
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    • Unreasonable Searches and Seizures
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    • Due Process
    • Eminent Domain
    • Rights of Criminal Defendants
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Preamble to the Bill of Rights

Congress of the United States begun and held at the City of New-York, on Wednesday the fourth of March, one thousand seven hundred and eighty nine.

THE Conventions of a number of the States, having at the time of their adopting the Constitution, expressed a desire, in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers, that further declaratory and restrictive clauses should be added: And as extending the ground of public confidence in the Government, will best ensure the beneficent ends of its institution.

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