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February 14, 2025 | First Amendment Issues Dominant Busy Week at the Supreme Court
In Ortiz v United States, 585 U. S. ____ (2018), the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the legality of a military officer serving as a judge on both an Air Force appeals court and the Court of Military Commission Review (CMCR). In so ruling, the Court reje...
Although the U.S. Supreme Court was poised to determine when partisan gerrymandering runs afoul of the U.S. Constitution, the justices unanimously decided the case on technical grounds. The Court held that the plaintiffs in Gill v Whitford, 585 U. S....
In Carpenter v United States, 585 U. S. ____ (2018), the U.S. Supreme Court held that the seizure of cell-site location information constitutes a search under the Fourth Amendment. The case is the latest to interpret how to apply the Fourth Amendmen...
In Trump v Hawaii, 585 U.S. ____ (2018), a divided U.S. Supreme Court held that President Donald Trump lawfully exercised the broad discretion granted to him under the Immigration and Nationality Act to suspend the entry of certain immigrants into th...
In Janus v AFSCME (Janus v. American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, Council 31), 585 U.S. ____ (2018), the U.S. Supreme Court held that public-sector “agency shop” arrangements run afoul of the First Amendment. The sharply-...
In National Institute of Family and Life Advocates v Becerra, 585 U.S. ____ (2018), the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that anti-abortion crisis pregnancy centers are likely to succeed in their First Amendment challenge to a California law that requires su...
In Lucia v Securities and Exchange Commission, the U.S. Supreme Court held that Securities and Exchange Commission administrative law judges (ALJs) are “officers of the United States,” subject to the Constitution’s Appointments Clause. The deci...
The U.S. Supreme Court dramatically altered the country’s E-commerce landscape with its decision in South Dakota v Wayfair, 585 U. S. ____ (2018). By a narrow majority, the Court held that internet retailers can be required to collect sales taxes e...
In Minnesota Voters Alliance v Mansky, 585 U. S. ____ (2018), the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Minnesota’s ban on political apparel at polling places. According to the Court, the state law violates the First Amendment’s free speech clause. Fac...
In Husted v A Philip Randolph Institute, 584 U. S. ____ (2018), a divided U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Ohio’s controversial voter removal law does not run afoul of the National Voter Registration Act. National Voter Registration Act The Natio...
The U.S. Supreme Court will take on its first free speech case this month. The case, Free Speech Co...
The Supreme Court recently agreed to consider Catholic Charities Bureau, Inc. v. Wisconsin Labor &a...
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to consider an emergency appeal that will likely decide whether t...
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.