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Christian student group wins court battle to choose own leaders (Constitution news round-up)

2/14/2019

 
1A Religion: Christian student group wins in court, can choose own leaders
https://pjmedia.com/faith/christian-student-group-beats-university-in-court-can-choose-its-own-leaders/

1A: federal judge upholds Arkansas anti-BDS law forbidding state agencies from dealing with companies that boycott Israel (other courts have gone the other way)
https://www.jns.org/federal-court-upholds-anti-bds-bill-in-arkansas/

5A Fundamental Rights: failure of South Dakota bill affirming parental rights to resist the transitioning of their gender-confused kids should terrify parents
http://thefederalist.com/2019/02/12/lgbt-activists-teaching-judges-yank-kids-parents-wont-transgender/

Amendment to affirm a constitutional right for parents to “direct the upbringing, education, and care of their children” introduced in the House
https://govtrackinsider.com/proposed-constitutional-amendment-would-enshrine-parental-rights-in-the-constitution-9e5304f2d8f7

14A Due Process: Supreme Court declines to stay execution of Muslim inmate in Alabama who had sued to have imam present in death chamber. 
https://abcnews.go.com/US/alabama-executes-muslim-inmate-sued-imam-present/story?id=60905497

1A: forcing students to fill in world history course worksheet with ‘no god but Allah’ does not establish a religion or compel speech (4th Circuit) #CreepingSharia
http://reason.com/volokh/2019/02/11/lesson-on-islam-didnt-violate-establishm

Free Expression: Islam very successful in suppressing criticism of its treatment of women; feminists overlook “child marriages, forced marriages, female seclusion, honor killings, gang rapes of infidel women, or the enslavement and sale of females for sex slavery.” Not to mention FGM.
https://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/2019/01/20/islamophobia-invention/
 
Free Expression: English woman arrested for ‘misgendering’ trans activist on Twitter
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6687123/Mother-arrested-children-calling-transgender-woman-man.html

Free Expression: tech giants that punish social media users for ‘misgendering’ are killing freedom of expression
https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/02/12/how-tech-giants-are-banning-truth-and-undermining-freedom/?utm_source=TDS_Email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MorningBell%22&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTnpSbU16WmpOVEJoTWpkaCIsInQiOiJsMlBUWUtaeThNQXJMWjk0U3hNdklcLzV1bU91ZElxT3FzbEdcL012YVwvM3dES2E0MVwvS2I0ak02anhTZ1ZKRldrTUJXYk9jUmcrTmhHOHkzQU5HZXo1UFpvYzJtYVdSMjZHcTdCOW1RSlwvN3JnTnRIczl6eUVJTjRmS1pQNmlNdVIxIn0%3D

1A Right of Association: Women suing for sexual harassment at Yale fraternities seek to have them opened to women. #ABridgeTooFar
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/yale-fraternities-lawsuit-women-claim-sexual-harassment-at-fraternity-events-ask-to-integrate-women/

1A Right of Association: the section of the Delaware Constitution requiring judges to be Republican or Democrat is unconstitutional
https://www2.ca3.uscourts.gov/opinarch/181045p.pdf
 
1A: gun groups file suit against New Jersey for law criminalizing the sharing of gun blueprints online
https://freebeacon.com/issues/suit-filed-against-nj-attempt-to-criminalize-sharing-gun-blueprints-nationwide/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=aabad6c269-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_02_07_01_02_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-aabad6c269-45628225
 
2A: map shows many more states now allowing concealed carry than in 1986
http://reason.com/volokh/2019/02/07/gun-decontrol-1986-to-now
 
2A: Washington State sheriff refuses to enforce state’s restrictions on ‘assault rifles’
https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/constitution/item/31406-washington-state-county-sheriff-nullifies-state-statute-s-gun-grab

5A Due Process: new lawsuit claims holding immigration court by videoconference limits access to justice and is a pretext for speeding deportations  https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/12/nyregion/immigration-court-video-teleconferencing.html 

14A Equal Protection: trade association objects to Pennsylvania bill that would tax adult video games an extra 10%
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2019-02-05-esa-pennsylvania-video-game-tax-a-violation-of-the-us-constitution

Electoral College: Dems pushing National Popular Vote Compact in their ‘trifecta’ states
https://freebeacon.com/issues/dems-push-national-popular-vote-in-newly-controlled-trifecta-states/

State Constitutions: rational basis test for substantive due process and equal protection claims under state constitutions tougher than in Supreme Court ‘anything goes’ jurisprudence
http://reason.com/volokh/2019/02/11/rational-basis-test-not-so-deferential-u

Judicial ‘minimalism’ explained - courts should avoid broad sweeping declarations and decide cases on the narrowest ground possible
https://www.cato.org/policy-report/novemberdecember-2014/originalism-v-minimalism

Whatever notions you have about traffic camera speed traps being unconstitutional, forget it says Iowa Supreme Court
http://reason.com/volokh/2019/02/11/automated-speeding-enforcement-constitut

“George Washington Letter on God and the Constitution Revealed”

https://www.theepochtimes.com/george-washington-letter-on-god-and-the-constitution-revealed_2798086.html

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