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May 21, 2025 | Supreme Court Sides With FDA on Flavored Vape Denials

Author: DONALD SCARINCI

Is a Man’s Home Still His Castle? Dog Sniff Case Tests Expectation Of Privacy

The U.S. Supreme Court recently considered whether law enforcement’s use of a trained narcotics-detection dog to sniff a house suspected of drug activity is a “search” within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment. Although the Supreme Court has g...

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Lawsuit Challenges Free Speech Rights Inside the Supreme Court

Free speech is one of the bedrock principles of the U.S. Constitution. However, what happens when someone wears potentially offensive clothing into the halls of our most hallowed court? A Florida man, and former Marine, is currently suing the fede...

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Supreme Court Kicks Off Historic Agenda: Part III

The U.S. Supreme Court currently has 48 cases on its docket for the October 2012 Term. However, it is very likely that the term’s blockbuster cases have not yet been added to the docket. Voting rights and same-sex marriage are two clear examples. ...

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Supreme Court Kicks Off Historic Agenda: Part II

Since embarking on a new term earlier this month, the Supreme Court has already considered a number of significant issues, including the future of affirmative action and corporate liability for human rights abuses overseas. In addition, the Court sho...

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Supreme Court Kicks Off Historic Agenda: Part I

The U.S. Supreme Court term that ended with the much-anticipated healthcare decision certainly made waves, but could the Court’s next term be even more historic? While much is left to be decided, the cases on tap for this term have the potential to...

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Supreme Court Clarifies Role of Technology and “One Person, One Vote” Rule

With the assistance of modern technology, state Congressional districts can be divided down to a single person, seemingly satisfying the “one person, one vote” requirement. However, as the U.S. Supreme Court recently highlighted, mathematical equ...

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Are Voter ID Laws Headed Back to the Supreme Court?

The next term of the Supreme Court begins in a few short weeks and voter ID laws may be one of the first issues on the agenda. The legality of several voter identification laws are being challenged in the federal courts and may be on the fast track t...

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Lawrence v. Texas: Are Same-Sex Marriage Bans Constitutional?

When the Supreme Court decides to address the issue of same-sex marriage, Lawrence v. Texas, 539 U.S. 558 (2003), which legalized same-sex sexual activity, will likely play a large role. In fact, in his dissent Justice Scalia asked that in light of t...

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Will the Supreme Court Finally Address Same-Sex Marriage?

The U.S. Supreme Court has been asked to tackle the controversial issue of same-sex marriage not just once, but twice, next term. One petition asks the Court to uphold Proposition 8, the California constitutional amendment defining marriage as exclus...

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Clash of the Titans: Bush v. Gore

The upcoming Presidential election will likely be decided by a very narrow margin, but few Presidential elections will likely ever rival the epic battle between then Texas Governor George Bush and Vice President Al Gore. The 2000 presidential electio...

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SCOTUS Agrees to Consider Birthright Citizen Cases
by DONALD SCARINCI on May 21, 2025

The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to consider legal challenges to President Donald Trump’s execut...

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SCOTUS Rules Non-Citizens Must Challenge Removal Under Alien Enemies Act
by DONALD SCARINCI on May 6, 2025

In Trump v. J.G.G., the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that non-citizens challenging their removal under ...

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Causing Physical Harm Always Involves “Use of Force”
by DONALD SCARINCI on April 29, 2025

In Delligatti v. United States, 604 U.S. ____ (2025), the U.S. Supreme Court held that the knowing ...

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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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