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December 24, 2025 | Supreme Court Allows Texas to Use Challenged Congressional Map

Month: September 2020

SCOTUS to Clarify What Constitutes a Fourth Amendment Seizure

When the U.S. Supreme Court returns to the bench next month, one of the first cases it will consider involves what constitutes a seizure for purposes of the Fourth Amendment’s ban on unreasonable seizures. The case, Torres v. Madrid, was originall...

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SCOTUS Invalidates Government Debt Collection Exception to Robo Call Ban

SCOTUS Invalidates Government Debt Collection Exception to Robo Call Ban

In Barr v. American Association of Political Consultants Inc., 591 U. S. ____ (2020), the U.S. Supreme Court held that the exception to the Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991 that allows calls to collect government debt law violates the First...

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SCOTUS Holds Condition for AIDS Funding Is Constitutional As Applied to Foreign Affiliates of Domestic NGOs

In Agency for International Development v. Alliance for Open Society International, Inc., 591 U. S. ____ (2020), the U.S. Supreme Court held that because the foreign affiliates of American nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) possess no First Amend...

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Justices Skeptical of Trump Administration Tariffs
by DONALD SCARINCI on December 18, 2025

The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Learning Resources, Inc. v. Trump (consolidated with...

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SCOTUS Takes Up Key Election Case Involving Mail-In Ballots
by DONALD SCARINCI on December 17, 2025

The U.S. Supreme Court recently granted certiorari in a key election case, Watson v. Republican Nat...

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SCOTUS Adds Second Amendment Case to Docket
by DONALD SCARINCI on November 27, 2025

The U.S. Supreme Court will consider another important Second Amendment case this term. The latest ...

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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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