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Batson v. Kentucky: When Can Jurors Be Excluded?

The Supreme Court’s seminal decision in Batson v. Kentucky prohibits racial discrimination when selecting a jury. Over 25 years later, lower courts are currently considering whether the same Equal Rights protections should be extended to homosexual...

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What Do Citizens United and the Affordable Care Act Have in Common? Supreme Court Likely to Consider Next Term

The Affordable Care Act is likely headed back to the U.S. Supreme Court next term, which starts in October. While the latest round of challenges involve the law’s contraception mandate, the Court’s decision may be influenced by Citizen’s United...

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Government Can’t Use Funding to Control Speech: U.S. Agency for Int’l Development v. Alliance for Open Society Int’l

The government cannot force funding recipients to serve as its mouthpiece, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in one of the most significant First Amendment cases of the term. The justices specifically held that requiring nongovernmental organizations wish...

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Fisher v. University of Texas: Affirmative Action Lives to See Another Day

While many of the Supreme Court’s blockbuster cases of the term failed to disappoint, Fisher v. University of Texas may be an exception. When the justices agreed to consider the case, many speculated that the Court would reconsider the preceden...

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Hollingsworth v. Perry: Sam-Sex Marriage Now Legal in California

After years of legal battles, same-sex couples in California are now free to walk down the aisle, albeit on a technicality. In Hollingsworth v. Perry, the U.S. Supreme Court held that supporters of Proposition 8, the state’s voter approved ban on s...

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United States v. Windsor: U.S. Supreme Court Overturns DOMA

Ten years to the day after it struck down a Texas sodomy law in Lawrence v. Texas, the U.S. Supreme Court finally weighed in on the issue of same-sex marriage. In United States v. Windsor, the Court invalidated the federal Defense of Marriage Act (D...

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Shelby v. Holder: Supreme Court Invalidates Key Provision of Voting Rights Act

Over forty-five years after Congress passed the Voting Rights Act of 1965, a deeply divided U.S. Supreme Court has invalidated one of its key provisions. By a vote of 5-4, the Court ruled that Section 4, which establishes states and municipalities th...

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Salinas v. Texas: Do Americans Still Have the Right to Remain Silent?

While the U.S. Supreme Court has yet to release its most highly anticipated opinions, there has been no shortage of controversy. In Salinas v. Texas, the justices raised the bar for criminal suspects seeking to invoke their constitutional right to r...

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Supreme Court Patent Decision on Human Genes Has Constitutional Roots

While it might seem strange to discuss the patentability of DNA on a constitutional law blog, the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics, Inc. can be traced back to the founding fathers. While they l...

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Legal Bloggers Are “Go To” Source As Supreme Court Prepares Historic Rulings

The U.S. Supreme Court is poised to issue groundbreaking opinions over the next few weeks on issues from same-sex marriage to affirmative action. While casual observers will tune in to the evening news to learn about the decisions, those who are “i...

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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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    • Eminent Domain
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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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