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SCOTUS Issues Major Tribal Rights Ruling in McGirt v. Oklahoma

SCOTUS Issues Major Tribal Rights Ruling in McGirt v. Oklahoma

In McGirt v. Oklahoma, 591 U.S. ____ (2020), a divided U.S. Supreme Court held that much of eastern Oklahoma remains an American Indian reservation for the purposes of  federal...

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SCOTUS Rules Ministerial Exception Bars Teachers’ Discrimination Suits

SCOTUS Rules Ministerial Exception Bars Teachers’ Discrimination Suits

In Our Lady of Guadalupe School v. Morrissey-Berru and St. James School v. Biel, 591 U. S. ____ (2020), the U.S. Supreme Court held that two Catholic school teachers could not p...

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SCOTUS Upholds Affordable Care Act’s Religious and Moral Exemptions

SCOTUS Upholds Affordable Care Act’s Religious and Moral Exemptions

In Little Sisters of the Poor Saints Peter and Paul Home v. Pennsylvania, 591 U. S. ____ (2020), the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the Affordable Care Act (ACA) exemption for emplo...

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Supreme Court Strikes Down CFPB Removal Provision But Leaves Agency Intact

In Seila Law LLC v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, 591 U. S. ____ (2020), the U.S. Supreme Court held the restriction in the Dodd-Frank Act that allowed president’s abi...

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SCOTUS Unanimously Upholds Faithless Elector Laws

SCOTUS Unanimously Upholds Faithless Elector Laws

In Chiafalo v. Washington, 591 U. S. ____ (2020), the U.S. Supreme Court upheld state “faithless elector” laws. The justices unanimously ruled that states may enforce an ele...

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Trump v. Vance

SCOTUS Issues Landmark Decision on President Trump’s Financial Records

In Trump v. Vance, 591 U. S. ____ (2020), the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that President Donald Trump is not immune to state subpoenas for his financial records. By a vote of 7-2, ...

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DACA

Divided Court Rules Trump Administration Can’t End DACA…For Now

In Department of Homeland Security v. Regents of the University of California, 591 U. S. ____ (2020), the U.S. Supreme Court held that the Department of Homeland Security’s de...

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Supreme Court Rules All Dismissals Count as Strike Under Prison Litigation Reform Act

In Lomax v. Ortiz-Marquez, 590 U. S. ____ (2020), the U.S. Supreme Court held that indigent prisoners generally get no more than three attempts at filing lawsuits in forma paupe...

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South Bay United Pentecostal Church v. Newsom

SCOTUS Refuses to Stay Order Limiting Church Attendance in Response to COVID-19

In South Bay United Pentecostal Church v. Newsom , 590 U. S. ____ (2020), a divided U.S. Supreme Court refused to stay, pending appeal, an executive order by California Gov. Gav...

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under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act

SCOTUS Unanimously Rules Punitive Damages Available Under FSIA for Embassy Bombing

In Opati v. Republic of Sudan, 590 U. S. ____ (2020), the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously held that plaintiffs in a suit against a foreign state for personal injury or death caus...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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The Amendments

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    • Establishment ClauseFree Exercise Clause
    • Freedom of Speech
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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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