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SCOTUS (Minus Justice Ginsburg) Hears Arguments in Six Cases 1-14-19

SCOTUS (Minus Justice Ginsburg) Hears Oral Arguments in Six Cases

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg missed oral arguments this week as she recovers from surgery to remove cancerous growths from her lungs. She will, however, still participate in the ...

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US Supreme Court Kicks off 2019 with Oral Arguments in Five Cases

US Supreme Court Kicks off 2019 with Oral Arguments in Five Cases

The U.S. Supreme Court had a busy first week of the year as the justices returned to the bench to kick off 2019. The week’s oral arguments included two high-profile copyright ...

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United States v Stitt Clarifies Burglary Under Armed Career Criminal Act

United States v Stitt Clarifies Burglary Under Armed Career Criminal Act

In United States v Stitt, decided on December 10, 2018, the U.S. Supreme Court held that the term “burglary,” as used in the federal Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA), includ...

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SCOTUS to Take Up Rare 21st Amendment Case in January 2019

SCOTUS to Take Up Rare 21st Amendment Case

When they return to the bench in January, the justices of the U.S. Supreme Court will consider their first case involving the 21st Amendment in more than a decade. Tennessee Win...

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Will Supreme Court Abolish Deference to “reasonable interpretation” in Kisor v Wilkie?

Will Supreme Court Abolish Deference to “reasonable interpretation” in Kisor v Wilkie?

The U.S. Supreme Court recently agreed to hear Kisor v Wilkie, which has the potential to be a blockbuster in the area of administrative law. The question before the Court is wh...

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How a Frog Habitat in Louisiana May Begin to Curb Administrative Agency Power in Weyerhaeuser Company v United States Fish and Wildlife Service

How a Frog Habitat in Louisiana May Begin to Curb Administrative Agency Power in Weyerhaeuser Company v United States Fish and Wildlife Service

The U.S. Supreme Court has sent Weyerhaeuser Company v. United States Fish and Wildlife Service, 586 U. S. ____ (2018), back to the lower court.  It remains to be seen whether t...

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November 19, 2018 Week SCOTUS Oral Arguments

November 19, 2018 Week in Review: Eighth Amendment Ban on Excessive Fines

The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in five cases this week, one of which has the potential to be a blockbuster. The issue before the Court in Timbs v. Indiana is whether...

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SCOTUS to Consider American Legion v American Humanist Association

SCOTUS to Hear First Amendment Crosses on Public Property in American Legion v American Humanist Association

The U.S. Supreme Court recently agreed to consider a potential blockbuster case involving the First Amendment. The issue in The American Legion v. American Humanist Association i...

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Mount Lemmon Fire District v Guido 2018

Mount Lemmon Fire District v Guido: Age Discriminations Law Covers All Public Employers

In its first published decision of the term, the U.S. Supreme Court held that the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 (ADEA) applies to state and local governments, rega...

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Oral Arguments Week of Nov 5 2018

Oral Arguments in Six Cases Include Hovercrafts and Lethal Injection

The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in six cases this week. The issues before the justices were extremely varied, ranging from whether hovercrafts should be allowed on A...

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Supreme Court Clarifies Applicability of First Step Act to Vacated Sentences
by DONALD SCARINCI on September 4, 2025

In Hewitt v. United States, 606 U.S. ____ (2025), a divided U.S. Supreme Court held that the First ...

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SCOTUS Rules E-Cigarette Retailers Can Challenge FDA Order in Fifth Circuit
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In FDA v. R. J. Reynolds Vapor Co., 606 U.S. ____ (2025), the U.S. Supreme Court held that e-cigare...

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Supreme Court Expands Judicial Review of Agency Actions
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In McLaughlin Chiropractic Associates, Inc. v. McKesson Corp., 606 U.S. ____ (2025), the U.S. Supre...

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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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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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