Menu
Hot-Topics
May 17, 2022 | SCOTUS Wraps Up Oral Arguments for the Term
Month: June 2014
Elonis v. United States: Supreme Court to Consider Online Threats
Threats of causing actual harm to someone has never been considered protected speech under the First Amendment. The U.S. Supreme Court will now review online threats made on Facebook and Twitter, in Elonis v. United States. The case involves a se...
Bond v. United States: Another Case of Constitutional Avoidance
The U.S. Supreme Court sidestepped the most complex issues in Bond v. United States in yet another case of constitutional avoidance. Rather than address the limits of the federal government’s power to implement international treaties, the Court rul...
U.S. Supreme Court Declines to Consider First Amendment Claims of NYT Reporter
The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to come to the aid of New York Times reporter James Risen. He is facing jail time after refusing to comply with a subpoena seeking the identity of a source used for his book, “State of War.” The government main...
Fixed IQ Score Cannot be Sole Measure of Incapacity to be Executed
A divided Supreme Court has withdrawn some of the discretion it gave to the states to determine when an individual convicted of murder is too intellectually incapacitated to be executed. The five to four majority held that states cannot use a fixed I...
Previous Articles
SCOTUS Wraps Up Oral Arguments for the Term
by DONALD SCARINCI on May 17, 2022
The U.S. Supreme Court has concluded its oral arguments for the October 2021 Term. The justices hea...
SCOTUS Rules Censure of Elected Board Member Didn’t Violate First Amendment
by DONALD SCARINCI on May 10, 2022
In Houston Community College System v. Wilson, 595 U.S. ____ (2022), the U.S. Supreme Court held th...
Supreme Court Breach Is Not the First Involving Roe v. Wade
by DONALD SCARINCI on
The recent disclosure of Justice Samuel Alito’s decision purporting to overturn Roe v. Wade is ar...
