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Supreme Court Breach Is Not the First Involving Roe v. Wade

Supreme Court Breach Is Not the First Involving Roe v. Wade

The recent disclosure of Justice Samuel Alito’s decision purporting to overturn Roe v. Wade is arguably the most significant breach in the history of the U.S. Supreme Court. However,  it is not the first time that a landmark abortion decision was...

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Supreme Court Favors Religious Liberty in Death Row Case

In Ramirez v. Collier, 595 U. S. ____ (2022), the U.S. Supreme Court held that Texas can’t execute a man death row unless it allows his pastor to pray and lay hands on him while he is executed. The Court specifically held that Ramirez is likely to...

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Arbitration at Center of Last Week’s SCOTUS Oral Arguments

The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in four cases last week, with Justice Clarence Thomas participating remotely after being discharged from the hospital. The Federal Arbitration Act took center stage in two of the four cases. Other issues b...

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SCOTUS Hears Oral Arguments in Four Cases

SCOTUS Hears Oral Arguments in Four Cases

When U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in four cases last week, it was missing hospitalized Justice Clarence Thomas.  The issues before the Court included challenges to North Carolina’s voter ID law, the waiver of arbitration agreements...

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Supreme Court Sides with FBI in State Secrets Privilege Case

Supreme Court Sides with FBI in State Secrets Privilege Case

In Federal Bureau of Investigation v. Fazaga, 595 U.S. ____ (2022), the U.S. Supreme Court addressed the relationship between the “state secrets” privilege and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (FISA). The court unanimously ...

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Supreme Court Rules Mistake of Law in Copyright Application Is Excusable

Supreme Court Rules Mistake of Law in Copyright Application Is Excusable

In Unicolors, Inc. v. H&M Hennes & Mauritz, L.P., 595 U. S. ____ (2022), the U.S. Supreme Court held that, under the safe harbor provision of 17 U.S.C. 411(b)(1)(A), a copyright registration is valid even though it contains a mistake of law ...

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SCOTUS Kicks Off February Sitting With Oral Arguments in Three Cases

SCOTUS Kicks Off February Sitting With Oral Arguments in Three Cases

The U.S. Supreme Court recently returned to the bench for its February sitting. The justices heard oral arguments in three cases. The issues before the Court involved Native American law and immigration. Below is a brief summary of the cases befo...

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US Supreme Court Greenlights Alabama Voting Map

In Merrill v. Milligan, 595 U. S. ____ (2022), a divided U.S. Supreme Court allowed Alabama to implement a congressional redistricting map that includes only one district with a majority of Black voters. While a lower court agreed with challengers t...

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SCOTUS Clarifies Duties of Retirement Plan Sponsors

SCOTUS Clarifies Duties of Retirement Plan Sponsors

In Hughes v. Northwestern University, 595 U.S. ____ (2022), the U.S. Supreme Court held that determining whether plan participants state plausible claims against plan fiduciaries for violations of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act’s (ERI...

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SCOTUS Rejects Claims of Dual-status Military Technician

In Babcock v. Kijakazi, 595 U.S. ____ (2022), the U.S. Supreme Court held that civil-service pension payments based on employment as a dual-status military technician are not payments based on “service as a member of a uniformed service” under ...

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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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    • The Right to Bear Arms
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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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