The Supreme Court announced Friday that it would, once again, consider whether partisan gerrymandering can be so extreme that it violates the Constitution.
The move comes after a term in which the justices had looked poised to impose some limits on partisan influence in redistricting, but ultimately seemed unable to agree on a workable...
As the first week of the new Congressional session began, the new Democrat majority in the House of Representatives immediately got to work. As reported by Daily Wire, Representative Steve Cohen (D-TN) introduced a bill on Thursday to Congress to effectively eliminate the Electoral College.
Last night, the Fourth Circuit stayed Maryland and Washington, D.C.’s Emoluments Clause lawsuit against President Trump in its entirety, while scheduling oral argument in the case to begin on March 19, 2019.
This means that the litigation will be completely paused until the court reaches a decision on the President’s petition, which...
It took two years and a lawsuit to get this done, but better late than never.
The Washington Times reports:
College settles free speech lawsuit, will allow students to hand out U.S. Constitutions
Students at Pierce College will be able to pass out copies of the U.S. Constitution without conditions after two years of...
Vox‘s Matthew Yglesias believes that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez should run for president.
Hey, why not? What could possibly go wrong?
Oh, and if she’s not old enough—and, at 29, she’s not—then it’s time to “fix” the Constitution.
Reed O’Connor, a federal judge in the Northern District of Texas, just killed Obamacare.
If the ruling holds up on appeal, Obamacare is dead. As a doorknob. Not just the mandate or some other particular provisions.
He killed the WHOLE THING.
Axios reports this morning that Trump is considering signing an Executive Order ending birthright citizenship for children of illegal immigrants:
President Trump plans to sign an executive order that would remove the right to citizenship...
Several times a year, this becomes an issue on various college campuses. Why?
The College Fix reports:
Lawsuit against college for blocking distribution of U.S. Constitution moves forward
A student at Pierce College in California who claims...
Michael Anton has caused a furor by suggesting that birthright citizenship is not required by the US Constitution, as Fuzzy Slippers has previously discussed on this blog. Anton is quoted as having said this on Tucker Carlson’s show:
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Michael Anton, a lecturer and research fellow at Hillsdale College and a former national security official in the Trump administration. Anton also was the pseudonymous author of The Flight 93 Election article that cause a stir prior to the 2016 election.
Earlier this month, Anton penned an op-ed...
Distributing copies of the United States Constitution on American college campuses should not be an issue, yet somehow it often is.
The Washington Examiner reports:
Code Red: Students required to submit copy of Constitution before passing it out on campus
Kean University, a public institution in Union, N.J., holds a red speech code rating,...
The Supreme Court in a 5-4 ruling that did not split on traditional ideological lines, upheld South Dakota’s ability to require that out-of-state internet sellers collect state sales tax on goods sold into South Dakota. The case involved the internet retailer Wayfair and South Dakota.
The case is being misrepresented in many...
The SCOTUS ruling on Masterpiece Cakes has apparently got some progressives in academia concerned.
Campus Reform reports:
Prof warns of ‘theocratization’ of Constitution by conservatives
A Columbia University professor recently claimed that conservatives’ belief in “natural law” is leading to a “radical theocratization of the Constitution.”
Professor of Law, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Katherine Franke,...
U.S. District Judge Mark E. Walker in Tallahassee has ruled that Florida’s process for restoring voting rights to convicted felons violates both the First and Fourteenth Amendments. The implications of the ruling, however, may not be so far-reaching since the judge hasn’t yet decided on a specific remedy.
This is another case where a student was reprimanded for handing out copies of the constitution on camus. Then FIRE got involved.
From the FIRE website:
Court rejects Pierce College’s attempt to dismiss lawsuit against its tiny ‘free speech zone’
In an order issued yesterday, a federal district court denied Los Angeles Community College...
We covered the other day how North Carolina was ordered to redo it’s congressional maps, Court Tells North Carolina to Redraw Congressional Lines by Next Week.
The Supreme Court just issued a Stay of that order.
It’s amazing that this is even an issue on college campuses. What’s so dangerous about the constitution?
The College Fix reports:
Another college that harassed student for passing out Constitutions changes policies after warning
If you want to be harassed by campus bureaucrats, ask passers-by to write whatever they want on your oversized beach...
