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It’s Not Fair, Change the Rules - Why We Have the Electoral College (new article)
https://www.potomacteaparty.com/harrison-electoral-college.html Trump says Supreme Court Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg should recuse themselves from any cases involving him or his administration because of the hostile political opinions against him they have expressed. https://www.theepochtimes.com/trump-calls-for-recusal-of-supreme-court-justices-sotomayor-and-ginsburg_3250477.html Trump Flips 9th Circuit - Sea-Change in Opinions Coming https://reason.com/2020/02/23/veteran-ninth-circuit-judges-complain-to-l-a-times-about-new-ninth-circuit-judges/ Separation of Powers: Second Circuit allows Justice Department to block federal funds to sanctuary jurisdictions, finding that Congress had delegated authority to place conditions on the grants in question https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/484715-appeals-court-rules-trump-administration-can-withhold-grants-from 5A: federal court rules border patrol holding cells unfit for stays longer than a few hours https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2020/02/20/Judge-Tucson-CBP-facilities-violate-Constitution/8371582182752/ Amendments: 5 states that rescinded their ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment sue to block its adoption into the Constitution https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/gop-led-states-seek-block-equal-rights-amendment-69121903 14 Equal Protection: Florida cannot ‘re-disenfranchise’ felons for nonpayment of fines after state constitution was changed to restore their voting rights (11th Circuit panel) https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/feb/19/appeals-court-upholds-florida-amendment-restoring-/ 1A Religion: Supreme Court takes case testing whether Philadelphia can exclude Catholic agency from its foster care program because it refuses to place children with same-sex couples https://freebeacon.com/issues/supreme-court-to-decide-if-faith-based-foster-care-must-work-with-gay-couples/?utm_source=actengage&utm_campaign=FreedomMail&utm_medium=email Discrimination: Supreme Court turns away appeal of Seventh-day Adventist who asked Walgreens for a guarantee he would never have to work on Saturday https://www.theepochtimes.com/supreme-court-declines-to-review-suit-against-walgreens-over-religious-discrimination_3248643.html 2A: New Mexico Governor signs red-flag law, tells sheriffs to enforce it or resign https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/feb/25/michelle-lujan-grisham-signs-red-flag-gun-bill-tel/ 1A: federal judge rules Chicago can’t keep Christian students from evangelizing in public park https://www.dailysignal.com/2020/02/25/judge-rules-chicago-cant-ban-christian-students-from-evangelizing/ 1A: students sue Wisconsin high school after being told not to wear T-shirts depicting guns https://abcnews.go.com/US/wisconsin-schools-ban-shirts-depicting-guns-prompts-federal/story?id=69175774 5A Eminent Domain: another Hurricane Harvey case goes the other way, because the deliberate flooding this time occurred when a reservoir went over capacity (cause-in-fact: government’s actions made no difference to the outcome) https://reason.com/2020/02/19/federal-court-rules-against-plaintiffs-in-second-hurricane-harvey-takings-case/ 8A Cruel and Unusual: Supreme Court nixed most life-without-parole sentences for minors, but effective life sentence of 3 consecutive 30-year terms is perfectly OK (8th Circuit in triple murder case) https://ecf.ca8.uscourts.gov/opndir/20/02/191239P.pdf Georgetown Law starts constitutional book series https://www.law.georgetown.edu/news/georgetown-laws-center-for-the-constitution-launches-the-constitutional-discourse-series/ Follow along in the Declaration of Independence, trace its origins in Greco-Roman natural law theory, and be inspired by the Founders’ travails to pluck up your courage for the fights ahead https://www.theunitedwest.org/2020/01/08/tom-trento-radio-crisis-as-a-culture-constitution-nationalism-and-the-u-s-a/ Comments are closed.
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