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October 8, 2025 | Supreme Court Stays Order Blocking Roving Immigration Patrols in CA

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SCOTUS Rejects Appointments Clause Challenge to Puerto Rico Oversight Board

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...

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SCOTUS Issues Major Tribal Rights Ruling in McGirt v. Oklahoma

SCOTUS Issues Major Tribal Rights Ruling in McGirt v. Oklahoma

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...

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SCOTUS Rules Ministerial Exception Bars Teachers’ Discrimination Suits

SCOTUS Rules Ministerial Exception Bars Teachers’ Discrimination Suits

In Our Lady of Guadalupe School v. Morrissey-Berru and St. James School v. Biel, 591 U. S. ____ (2020), the U.S. Supreme Court held that two Catholic school teachers could not pursue claims under federal anti-discrimination laws. According to the se...

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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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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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