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Bostock Stalks the Land (Constitution news round-up)

8/19/2020

 
Discrimination: federal judges temporarily block Trump administration’s transgender healthcare rule and Idaho’s attempt to prevent transgenders from competing in female school sports; Bostock looms (even though Gorsuch promised it wouldn’t)
https://apnews.com/52715601e10bfd01f48b8aa10cf22925
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https://www.dailysignal.com/2020/08/18/judge-blocks-idaho-law-preventing-transgender-athletes-from-competing-in-womens-sports/

Emoluments: 2nd Circuit won’t review emoluments case en banc; three cases ready for Supreme Court to take up
https://reason.com/2020/08/17/second-circuit-refuses-to-take-emoluments-case-en-banc/

Emergency Powers: could Congress or the President force everyone to wear masks in the pandemic? Law prof says no.
https://reason.com/2020/08/16/the-constitutionality-of-a-federal-mask-mandate-part-ii/

1A Religion: community college professor in Arizona prevails against CAIR-backed Muslim student who objected to being tested on factual course material unfavorable to Islam; not an ‘establishment’ of religion
https://reason.com/2020/08/18/court-rejects-constitutional-challenge-to-critical-teaching-about-islamic-terrorism/#more-8080773
 
1A: Law prof says protests outside particular homes can be banned, but restrictions must be content-neutral and not prevent marching through a neighborhood
https://reason.com/2020/08/15/protests-outside-peoples-homes-residential-picketing-and-the-first-amendment/
 
1A: 8th Circuit upholds restrictions on grand jurors’ speech; compelling state interest in preserving grand jury secrecy meets strict scrutiny test
https://reason.com/2020/08/17/restrictions-on-grand-jurors-speech-upheld/
 
1A: Iowa State University stops professor from threatening to expel students from class who argue against gay marriage, abortion, BLM, etc.
https://reason.com/2020/08/18/iowa-state-english-professor-forbids-papers-against-gay-marriage-abortion-black-lives-matter/
 
2A: Ninth Circuit holds California gun magazine ban and confiscation scheme unconstitutional; Biden wants the same gun magazine limit the Ninth Circuit just knocked down
https://freebeacon.com/latest-news/federal-court-rules-california-gun-magazine-ban-and-confiscation-scheme-unconstitutional/
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https://reason.com/2020/08/19/joe-biden-does-not-understand-the-second-amendment/
 
14A DP/EP: Maryland high court upholds Baltimore’s 300-foot restriction on food trucks
https://reason.com/2020/08/18/tanstaafl-appears-for-the-first-time-in-a-court-opinion/

14A EP: 5th Circuit finds all-male draft constitutional under controllling precedent, but signals different treatment of women might not withstand another Supreme Court look because they are now combat-eligible
https://reason.com/2020/08/14/fifth-circuit-upholds-constitutionality-of-male-only-draft-registration-but-only-based-on-precedent/

Shame! on the rioters who tore down a statue of George Washington near L.A. city hall. Evidently, they would prefer living under a King and Britannia ruling the waves
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/08/14/watch-rioters-tear-down-george-washington-statue-at-l-a-city-hall/


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