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May 6, 2025 | SCOTUS Rules Non-Citizens Must Challenge Removal Under Alien Enemies Act

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SCOTUS Upholds Affordable Care Act’s Religious and Moral Exemptions

SCOTUS Upholds Affordable Care Act’s Religious and Moral Exemptions

In Little Sisters of the Poor Saints Peter and Paul Home v. Pennsylvania, 591 U. S. ____ (2020), the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the Affordable Care Act (ACA) exemption for employers with religious and conscientious objections the healthcare law’s ...

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Supreme Court Strikes Down CFPB Removal Provision But Leaves Agency Intact

In Seila Law LLC v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, 591 U. S. ____ (2020), the U.S. Supreme Court held the restriction in the Dodd-Frank Act that allowed president’s ability to replace the CFPB Director only “for cause” violated the Cons...

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SCOTUS Unanimously Upholds Faithless Elector Laws

SCOTUS Unanimously Upholds Faithless Elector Laws

In Chiafalo v. Washington, 591 U. S. ____ (2020), the U.S. Supreme Court upheld state “faithless elector” laws. The justices unanimously ruled that states may enforce an elector’s pledge to support his party’s nominee—and the state voters...

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Trump v. Vance

SCOTUS Issues Landmark Decision on President Trump’s Financial Records

In Trump v. Vance, 591 U. S. ____ (2020), the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that President Donald Trump is not immune to state subpoenas for his financial records. By a vote of 7-2, the Court held that Article II and the supremacy clause of the Constitut...

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DACA

Divided Court Rules Trump Administration Can’t End DACA…For Now

In Department of Homeland Security v. Regents of the University of California, 591 U. S. ____ (2020), the U.S. Supreme Court held that the Department of Homeland Security’s decision to rescind the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) prog...

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Supreme Court Rules All Dismissals Count as Strike Under Prison Litigation Reform Act

In Lomax v. Ortiz-Marquez, 590 U. S. ____ (2020), the U.S. Supreme Court held that indigent prisoners generally get no more than three attempts at filing lawsuits in forma pauperis — without first paying filing fees — regardless of whether those...

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South Bay United Pentecostal Church v. Newsom

SCOTUS Refuses to Stay Order Limiting Church Attendance in Response to COVID-19

In South Bay United Pentecostal Church v. Newsom , 590 U. S. ____ (2020), a divided U.S. Supreme Court refused to stay, pending appeal, an executive order by California Gov. Gavin Newsom that limits attendance at places of worship to 25 percent of b...

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under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act

SCOTUS Unanimously Rules Punitive Damages Available Under FSIA for Embassy Bombing

In Opati v. Republic of Sudan, 590 U. S. ____ (2020), the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously held that plaintiffs in a suit against a foreign state for personal injury or death caused by acts of terrorism under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA...

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SCOTUS Establishes New Test Under Clean Water Act

The U.S. Supreme Court struck a middle ground in the most closely-watched environmental case of the October 2019 Term. By a vote of 6-3, the Court held in County of Maui, Hawaii v. Hawaii Wildlife Fund, 590 U. S. ____ (2020), that the Clean Water Ac...

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US Supreme Court Overturns Bridgegate Convictions

In Kelly v. United States, 590 U. S. ____ (2020), the U.S. Supreme Court overturned federal convictions arising out of New Jersey’s infamous “Bridgegate” scandal. According to the unanimous Court, because the scheme to close access lanes to th...

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The Amendments

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    • Establishment ClauseFree Exercise Clause
    • Freedom of Speech
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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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