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4 Jul 2023, 9:09 am
Compare the Latin liberi--that also focuses on status and capacity. [read post]
” The families were assisted in filing the suit by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Human Rights Campaign (HRC) and the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). [read post]
3 Jul 2023, 6:45 am by Daniel M. Kowalski
” Then a law professor, Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia (now the Officer for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties within the Department of Homeland Security [DHS]), has recounted that history and the evolution of prosecutorial discretion. [read post]
2 Jul 2023, 6:30 am by JB
Specifically, he opposes the idea that there is a common language of constitutionalism in which judges are the principal actors and the crucial defenders of democracy, liberty, and equality. [read post]
30 Jun 2023, 5:50 pm by Angelo A. Paparelli
” Then a law professor, Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia (now the Officer for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties within the Department of Homeland Security [DHS]), has recounted that history and the evolution of prosecutorial discretion. [read post]
30 Jun 2023, 9:42 am by Tom Smith
  Third, the diversity doctrine has been elevated to near sacred status among many college and university administrators as well as within the leadership class in much of American society. [read post]
30 Jun 2023, 9:41 am by Eugene Volokh
"[A] person could be in one day and out the next: the moment he was convicted of a violent crime or suffered the onset of mental illness, his rights would be stripped as a self-executing consequence of his new status. [read post]
28 Jun 2023, 10:30 am by Guest Blogger
”For Loughlin, constitutionalism encompasses the following six precepts: the constitution “(1) establishes a comprehensive scheme of government, founded (2) on the principle of representative government and (3) on the need to divide, channel, and constrain governmental powers for the purpose of safeguarding individual liberty. [read post]
26 Jun 2023, 4:30 am by Jonathan H. Adler
In his opinion concurring in the judgment, Justice Gorsuch writes: the Court contends that, "when the Executive Branch elects not to arrest or prosecute, it does not exercise coercive power over an individual's liberty or property. [read post]
25 Jun 2023, 10:54 am by Eugene Volokh
The same applies to boycotts of Israel, or of course of any other countries: An observer who sees a company dealing with a non-Israeli business, and not with an Israeli business, can only perceive a political message when the company accompanies its conduct with speech explaining it.[15] This lack of constitutional protection simply reflects a well-established principle: The First Amendment does not generally protect liberty of contract, whether or not one's choices about whom to deal… [read post]
23 Jun 2023, 10:13 am by Ilya Somin
To begin with, when the Executive Branch elects not to arrest or prosecute, it does not exercise coercive power over an individual's liberty or property, and thus does not infringe upon interests that courts often are called upon to protect…. [read post]
22 Jun 2023, 1:19 pm by Ilya Somin
. ___ (2019), this Court held that a defendant's knowledge of the status that disqualifies him from owning a firearm is an element of a §922(g) conviction. [read post]
22 Jun 2023, 8:00 am by Alex Phipps
Defendant was convicted in 2012 for five counts of indecent liberties with a minor and first-degree sexual offense, as well as habitual felon status. [read post]
22 Jun 2023, 6:41 am by Christine Corcos
Casey (1992), which upheld abortion’s status as a fundamental right, while seriously expanding the grounds for restricting it. [read post]
22 Jun 2023, 6:41 am
Casey (1992), which upheld abortion’s status as a fundamental right, while seriously expanding the grounds for restricting it. [read post]
20 Jun 2023, 10:40 am by Viola Gienger
The Biden administration’s own catalogs of human rights abuses, repression, and democratic backsliding in India appear to have been relegated to back shelves, as the president prepares to welcome Prime Minister Narendra Modi for a lavish state dinner at the White House this week. [read post]
In a joint challenge, the Canadian Civil Liberties Association (CCLA) and the National Council of Canadian Muslims (NCCM) argued on behalf of a Muslim student that the ban unconstitutionally limits students’ civil rights and religious freedoms. [read post]
14 Jun 2023, 8:22 am by Phil Dixon
Those other crimes are as follows: Sexual activity with a student, G.S. 14-27.31 Sexual activity by a substitute parent, G.S. 14-27.32 Sexual battery, G.S. 14-27.33 Incest not otherwise covered above, G.S. 14-178(b)(3) Using, employing, or permitting a minor to commit an obscenity offense, G.S. 14-190.6 Indecent exposure by one at least 18 against a person under 16, G.S. 14-190.9(a1) Second-degree child exploitation, G.S. 14-190.17 Third-degree child exploitation, G.S. 14-190.17A Indecent… [read post]
13 Jun 2023, 10:41 am by Ilya Somin
As Bier notes, the system also severely constrains the liberty and economic opportunities of native-born Americans. [read post]
The Constitutional Court of the Republic of Lithuania declared the provisions of the Law on the Legal Status of Foreigners passed in 2021 unconstitutional on Wednesday. [read post]