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August 21, 2025 | SCOTUS Allows Termination of Dept of Education Employees

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SCOTUS Sides With Employee in Reverse Discrimination Case

SCOTUS Sides With Employee in Reverse Discrimination Case

In Ames v. Ohio Department of Youth Services, 605 U.S. ____ (2025), the U.S. Supreme Court held that the Sixth Circuit’s “background circumstances” rule, which requires members of a majority group to satisfy a heightened evidentiary standard t...

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Supreme Court Rejects Moment of Threat Doctrine in Deadly Force Case

Supreme Court Rejects Moment of Threat Doctrine in Deadly Force Case

In Barnes v. Felix, 605 U.S. ____ (2025), the U.S. Supreme Court rejected the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeal's "moment of threat" doctrine, which focused solely on the immediate actions leading up to a police officer’s use of force. In so ruling, C...

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SCOTUS Holds Wire Fraud Statute Doesn’t Require Proof Victim Suffered Economic Loss

SCOTUS Holds Wire Fraud Statute Doesn’t Require Proof Victim Suffered Economic Loss

In Kousisis v. United States, 605 U.S. ____ (2025), the U.S. Supreme Court held that a defendant who induces a victim to enter into a transaction under materially false pretenses may be convicted of federal fraud even if the defendant did not seek t...

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SCOTUS Holds Wire Fraud Statute Doesn’t Require Proof Victim Suffered Economic Loss

SCOTUS Holds Wire Fraud Statute Doesn’t Require Proof Victim Suffered Economic Loss

In Kousisis v. United States, 605 U.S. ____ (2025), the U.S. Supreme Court held that a defendant who induces a victim to enter into a transaction under materially false pretenses may be convicted of federal fraud even if the defendant did not seek t...

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SCOTUS Considers Birthright Citizenship

SCOTUS Considers Birthright Citizenship

On May 15, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Trump v. CASA, Inc., Trump v. Washington, Trump v. New Jersey, all of which challenge President Donald Trump's executive order to end birthright citizenship for the children of undocume...

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SCOTUS Sides with Military Reservist in Differential Pay Dispute

SCOTUS Sides with Military Reservist in Differential Pay Dispute

In Feliciano v. Department of Transportation, 605 U.S. ____ (2025), a divided U.S. Supreme Court held that a federal civilian employee called to active duty pursuant to “any other provision of law ... during a national emergency” as described in...

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Will US Supreme Court Allow Religious Charter Schools?

Will US Supreme Court Allow Religious Charter Schools?

The U.S. Supreme Court recently heard oral arguments in a key First Amendment case involving the separation of church and state. The issue before the justices in Oklahoma Statewide Charter School Board v. Drummond and St. Isidore of Seville Catholic...

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Supreme Court Sides With FDA on Flavored Vape Denials

Supreme Court Sides With FDA on Flavored Vape Denials

In Food and Drug Administration v. Wages and White Lion Investments, LLC, 604 U.S. ____ (2025), the U.S. Supreme Court held that the 5th Circuit erred in setting aside as arbitrary and capricious the FDA’s orders denying the authorization of new e...

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SCOTUS Agrees to Consider Birthright Citizen Cases

SCOTUS Agrees to Consider Birthright Citizen Cases

The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to consider legal challenges to President Donald Trump’s executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship. At this stage, the justices have agreed to consider whether three nationwide injunctions should ...

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SCOTUS Rules Non-Citizens Must Challenge Removal Under Alien Enemies Act

SCOTUS Rules Non-Citizens Must Challenge Removal Under Alien Enemies Act

In Trump v. J.G.G., the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that non-citizens challenging their removal under the Alien Enemies Act must bring habeas petitions in the district where they are detained. The justices did not address whether the Alien Enemies Act ...

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Divided Court Allows President to Fire Agency Officials
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In Trump v. Wilcox, 605 U.S. ____ (2025), the U.S. Supreme Court granted the Trump Administration...

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SCOTUS Grants Death Row Inmate New Trial in Glossip v. Oklahoma
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In Glossip v. Oklahoma, 604 U.S. ____ (2025), the U.S. Supreme Court granted death row inmate Richa...

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SCOTUS Allows Termination of Dept of Education Employees
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In McMahon v. New York, 606 U.S. ____ (2025), the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to stay a district cour...

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The Amendments

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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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