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October 18, 2023 | Supreme Court to Consider Constitutionality of State Social Media Laws
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear oral arguments in Trump v. New York on November 30, 2020. The case involves the legality of the Trump Administration’s plan to exclude people who are in the country illegally from the state-by-state breakd...
The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in four cases this week, all of which were originally scheduled to be heard last term. Issues before the justices included the statute of limitation for military rape charges, the Constitutional definition...
The U.S. Supreme Court returned to the bench this week. Following the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who passed away on September 18, 2020, the Court will begin the term with just eight members. The Court heard oral arguments in six cases....
The U.S. Supreme Court will again consider the President's appointment and removal powers with regard to an independent, single-director federal agency. Last term, the Supreme Court held in Seila Law LLC v. CFPB, 140 S. Ct. 2183, 2211 (2020) that Co...
In Fulton v. City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the U.S. Supreme Court will consider two controversial and often-competing constitutional issues — LGBTQ rights and religious liberty. The case involves whether the City of Philadelphia can ban Cath...
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...
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...
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...
In Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico v. Aurelius Investment, LLC, 590 U. S. ____ (2020), the U.S. Supreme Court held that the Constitution’s Appointments Clause does not restrict the appointment or selection of members of Pu...
In McGirt v. Oklahoma, 591 U.S. ____ (2020), a divided U.S. Supreme Court held that much of eastern Oklahoma remains an American Indian reservation for the purposes of federal criminal jurisdiction. Facts of the Case The Major Crimes Act (MC...
The U.S. Supreme Court resumed oral arguments on October 30, as it begins its November session. The...
The U.S. Supreme Court has now granted certiorari in two cases challenging the continued viability ...
The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in three cases last week. The issues before the Court i...
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.