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SCOTUS Poised to Decide Fate of Chevron Doctrine

SCOTUS Poised to Decide Fate of Chevron Doctrine

The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in four cases this week. The two most closely watched involve whether the Court should overrule its landmark decision in Chevron v. Natural Resources Defense Council, 467 U.S. 837 (1984). The Court’s ...

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SCOTUS Kicks Off January 2024 Session With Five Cases

SCOTUS Kicks Off January 2024 Session With Five Cases

The U.S. Supreme Court returned from recess on January 4, 2024. The Court’s January session will feature some of the Term’s biggest cases, with several testing the limit of the federal government’s regulatory power.  To kick off the sessio...

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SCOTUS to Take on Sixth Amendment’s Confrontation Clause

SCOTUS to Take on Sixth Amendment’s Confrontation Clause

The U.S. Supreme Court’s January docket features several closely watched cases involving constitutional law. In Smith v. Arizona, the justices will address whether the Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment permits the prosecution in a crimin...

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Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Case Over Access to Abortion Pill

Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Case Over Access to Abortion Pill

The U.S. Supreme Court recently agreed to take on another controversial abortion dispute. The consolidated cases before the justices this time around involve access to a drug used in medical abortions. The decision will be closely watched given the ...

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SCOTUS to Consider Obstruction Statute at Issue in Jan. 6 Prosecutions

SCOTUS to Consider Obstruction Statute at Issue in Jan. 6 Prosecutions

The U.S. Supreme Court recently granted certiorari in Fischer v. United States. The case challenges the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals’ interpretation of a federal statute prohibiting obstruction of congressional inquiries and investigations. The l...

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Looking Back at the Biggest Constitutional Law Decisions of 2023

Looking Back at the Biggest Constitutional Law Decisions of 2023

Constitutional law took center stage in many U.S. Supreme Court and the New Jersey Supreme Court cases decided in 2023. At the nation’s highest Court, the six-member conservative majority continued its trend of issuing transformative decisions,...

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SCOTUS Issues Term’s First Decision – Finds ADA Case Moot

SCOTUS Issues Term’s First Decision – Finds ADA Case Moot

The U.S. Supreme Court recently issued the term’s first decision in an argued case. In Acheson Hotels, LLC v. Laufer, 601 U.S. ____ (2023), the Court unanimously held the case is moot, declining to reach a closely watched issue of “tester” sta...

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SCOTUS Adds Two Additional Gun Rights Cases to Docket

SCOTUS Adds Two Additional Gun Rights Cases to Docket

The U.S. Supreme Court continues to add high-profile gun rights cases to its docket. One of the new cases involves a First Amendment challenge brought by the National Rifle Association (NRA). The second case centers on whether a “bump stock” –...

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Supreme Court Hears Oral Arguments in Three Cases

Supreme Court Hears Oral Arguments in Three Cases

The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in three cases this week, with the Second Amendment taking center stage. In the wake of the country’s most recent mass shooting, the justices considered a case that could overturn a federal gun law. T...

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Second Amendment Back at Supreme Court

Second Amendment Back at Supreme Court

The U.S. Supreme Court recently heard oral arguments in its first significant Second Amendment case in two years. The case, United States v. Rahimi, will decide whether a federal law banning the possession of guns by individuals who are subject to d...

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by DONALD SCARINCI on April 29, 2025

In Delligatti v. United States, 604 U.S. ____ (2025), the U.S. Supreme Court held that the knowing ...

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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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    • Unreasonable Searches and Seizures
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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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