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May 10, 2023 | SCOTUS Concludes Oral Arguments for the Term

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Justices Hear Oral Arguments in Four Cases

The Supreme Court’s January sitting started off with the late addition of two cases challenging vaccine mandates imposed by the Biden Administration. The first, Biden v. Missouri, involves a federal rule requiring all health care workers at facili...

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SCOTUS Rejects Trump’s Attempt to Block January 6 Records Release

In Trump v. Thompson, 595 U. S. ____ (2022), the U.S. Supreme Court rejected President Donald Trump’s request to block the release of records relating to the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, while the Court considers Trump's petition for review. Justice Clare...

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First Amendment Case on Tap for SCOTUS’s January Sitting

When the justices return to the bench in January, they are slated to hear a closely-watched First Amendment case involving religious freedom. The case, Shurtleff v. Boston, MA, involves whether the City of Boston violated the Constitution when it re...

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Supreme Court Allows Pre-enforcement Challenge Against Texas Abortion Law to Proceed

The U.S. Supreme Court held in Whole Woman’s Health v. Jackson that abortion providers may bring a pre-enforcement challenge in federal court as one means to test whether Texas’ s strict abortion law violates the U.S. Constitution, albeit only a...

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SCOTUS Ends December Sitting With Potential First Amendment Blockbuster

The U.S. Supreme Court ended its December sitting with oral arguments in Carson v. Makin. The closely-watched First Amendment case involves whether Maine’s exclusion of religious school options from its tuition-assistance program violates the U.S....

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Abortion Rights Took Center Stage During Busy Week for Supreme Court

The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in one of the term’s most closely-watched cases. The issue in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization is whether all pre-viability prohibitions on elective abortions are unconstitutional. However,...

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SCOTUS Sides with Tennessee in Groundwater Dispute

In Mississippi v. Tennessee, 595 U. S. ____ (2021), the U.S. Supreme Court held that that the waters of the Middle Claiborne Aquifer are subject to the judicial remedy of equitable apportionment. The Court’s decision, which is the latest ruling in...

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Abortion Returns to SCOTUS in December with Challenge to Roe v Wade

Early next month, the U.S. Supreme Court is scheduled to hear oral arguments in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which involves a Mississippi law that makes most abortions illegal after 15 weeks of pregnancy. Given that the state has ...

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DACA

Abortion and Gun Rights Top Busy Week for Supreme Court

The Supreme Court heard oral arguments in at least two blockbuster cases last week. In New York State Rifle & Pistol Association Inc. v. Bruen, the Court considered the constitutionality of a New York gun law. Based on oral arguments, it appeare...

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SCOTUS Hears Oral Arguments in Five Cases

The U.S. Supreme Court’s November argument sitting continued last week, with five cases on the docket. The justices considered several important constitutional issues, including the religious rights of death row inmates and municipal ordinances re...

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In Wilkins v. United States, 598 U.S. ____ (2023), the U.S. Supreme Court held that the Quiet Title...

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The Amendments

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    • Establishment ClauseFree Exercise Clause
    • Freedom of Speech
    • Freedoms of Press
    • Freedom of Assembly, and Petitition
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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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