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27 Apr 2018, 3:23 am by Michael Lowe
  It is true they are no longer mandatory, but discretionary pursuant to the Supreme Court’s ruling in United States v. [read post]
27 Mar 2020, 10:16 am by Michael Lowe
Within a week’s time, COVID-19 was been confirmed at Lychner State Jail near Houston, as well as at the Holliday Unit in Huntsville and at the Dallas County Jail. [read post]
20 Feb 2019, 10:32 am by admin
Thaddeus Stevens,18 wanted to grant freed slaves full civil rights, both out of moral sentiment and to create a Republican power base.19 The “black codes”20 and laws that denied freedmen entry into the states21 hampered the Radicals’ goals, as did Supreme Court precedent favoring states rights (often regarding slavery).22 After President Johnson vetoed23 a civil rights bill24 that would have eliminated the black codes, Stevens sought to usurp power from the… [read post]
9 Jul 2017, 2:52 am by Tom Donnelly
Let’s begin with Bingham’s text: No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. [read post]
27 Jun 2024, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
” By “neo-Garrisonians,” I refer to those historians whose historical work unblinkingly examines the racist past of the United States. [read post]
12 Jan 2017, 12:04 pm by Edith Roberts
He served as Missouri state director for Sen. [read post]
25 Jun 2007, 2:24 am
Justice Alito writes for the majority plurality in Hein v. [read post]
7 Apr 2023, 9:27 am by Eugene Volokh
New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. [read post]
29 Aug 2022, 5:00 am by The Petrie-Flom Center Staff
Parental rights extend to the right to have children,[10] the right to “direct the upbringing and education” of their children,[11] and a right to family integrity.[12] In comparison, children in the United States are left with few rights: constitutional jurisprudence has denied children an affirmative constitutional right to an education[13] and health care.[14] Where Can Children Find the Right to Consent? [read post]
9 Dec 2008, 11:39 am
The text - following on the heels of the Citizenship Clause's grant of national birthright citizenship - provides that "[n]o State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States. [read post]
15 Dec 2011, 5:07 pm by Guest Blogger
The verb “abridge” is used as a synonym for discrimination in exactly this way in the Fifteenth Amendment which says “The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. [read post]
31 Aug 2011, 1:47 am by Kevin LaCroix
 A ruling by the United States Supreme Court near the end of the savings and loan litigation, however, has reopened the door to these defenses. [read post]
17 Jan 2013, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 8, is significant because: (1) it involves a dispute over some fundamental but complex First Amendment doctrinal principles; (2) it conflicts with a case from the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit; and (3) (for reasons 1 and 2), it may very well end up in the United States Supreme Court. [read post]