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Thacker v Tennessee Valley Authority 2019

Supreme Court Clarifies Tennessee Valley Authority’s Sovereign Immunity in Thacker v Tennessee Valley Authority

In Thacker v Tennessee Valley Authority, 587 U. S. ____ (2019), the U.S. Supreme Court held that 16 U.S.C. §831c(b), which serves to waive the Tennessee Valley Authority’s (TVA) sovereign immunity from suit, is not subject to a discretionary func...

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SCOTUS Hears Last Oral Arguments of October 2018 Term

SCOTUS Hears Last Oral Arguments of October 2018 Term

The U.S. Supreme Court had a busy week, with oral arguments in seven cases. These will be last cases the justices will hear this term, with the remainder of their time largely devoted to deciding cases and issuing opinions. The most closely-watch...

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Harris v Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission

SCOTUS Rules Mathematical Perfection Not Required in Redistricting

In Harris v Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission, 578 U.S. ___ (2016), the U.S. Supreme Court confirmed that although the Fourteenth Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause requires States to attempt to construct legislative districts as nearl...

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SCOTUS Takes on Scandalous Trademarks and Hears Oral Arguments in Six Cases

SCOTUS Takes on Scandalous Trademarks and Hears Oral Arguments in Six Cases

The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in six cases this week. One of the most closely-watched cases was Iancu v. Brunetti, which will determine whether the Lanham Act’s prohibition on the federal registration of “immoral” or “scandalou...

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Divided Court Rejects Lethal Injection Challenge in Bucklew v Precythe

Divided Court Rejects Lethal Injection Challenge in Bucklew v Precythe

In Bucklew v Precythe, 587 U.S. ____ (2019), a divided U.S. Supreme Court rejected a death row inmate’s Eighth Amendment challenge. By a vote of 5-4, the Court held that executing Russell Bucklew by lethal injection would not violate the ban on cr...

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Wittman v Personhuballah Dismissed Due to Lack of Standing

Wittman v Personhuballah Dismissed Due to Lack of Standing

In Wittman v Personhuballah, 578 U. S. ____ (2016), the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously held that none of the three Members of Congress from Virginia who brought the racial gerrymandering suit had legal standing to challenge the state’s redistrict...

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The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to consider two lawsuits challenging President Donald Trump’s n...

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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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