Impeachment Raising Constitutional Issues (Constitution news round-up)

Impeachment Raising Constitutional Issues - Sixth Amendment right to counsel for the President?  Secret ballot for Senate impeachment trial?
https://reason.com/2019/11/12/impeachment-and-the-sixth-amendment/
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https://reason.com/2019/11/12/dont-forget-the-one-fifth-clause/

2A: Supreme Court turns away Remington’s appeal to block product liability suit arising from Sandy Hook massacre; further proceedings to turn on whether the gun maker marketed the product for assaults against humans
https://www.npr.org/2019/11/12/778487920/supreme-court-allows-sandy-hook-families-case-against-remington-to-proceed
 
1A: just because the Janus decision says you can’t be forced to pay union dues doesn’t mean you get to claw back what you paid the union in the past; unions relied in good faith on legal precedent when they  collected the fees (7th Circuit)
https://reason.com/2019/11/07/mark-janus-doesnt-get-his-money-back/
 
1A: state cannot require someone to register as a lobbyist to speak to legislators where “no one pays him and his activities do not involve spending money” (8th Circuit)
https://ecf.ca8.uscourts.gov/opndir/19/11/172654P.pdf
 
1A: Kansas enters consent judgment agreeing that statute forbidding the advertising of raw milk violates free speech
https://reason.com/2019/11/07/right-to-advertise-raw-milk/

1A: Authoritarian Obama State Department official trashes free speech, calls for hate speech laws to prohibit burning the Quran.  So, you can burn the flag but not the Quran - glad we got that settled.
https://pjmedia.com/homeland-security/obama-state-department-official-calls-for-criminalization-of-burning-the-quran/
 
1A: “If government is the arbiter of what is acceptable speech, you are on the road to a dystopian nightmare.”
https://fee.org/articles/without-free-speech-all-speech-becomes-government-speech/
 
2A: AR-15 perfect for women for home defense, female gun owners say 
https://freebeacon.com/issues/female-gun-owners-we-prefer-the-ar-15/

•  Indeed, just last week: Pregnant woman in Florida uses AR-15 to fend off two home intruders who were attacking her husband and daughter
  https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7647139/Heavily-pregnant-mother-uses-AR-15-kill-home-intruder-two-men-burst-Florida-home.html
  
  

2A: Permitless gun carry takes effect in Oklahoma (‘I shouldn’t have to ask government to give me my natural rights’)
https://www.foxnews.com/us/permitless-gun-carry-oklahoma
 
4A: federal judge rules indiscriminate search and seizure of smartphones and laptops of travelers at U.S. borders violates Fourth Amendment
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2019/11/13/Judge-rules-against-indiscriminate-searches-of-smartphones-laptops/1711573628714/?ls=3
 
4A: no expectation of privacy in unauthorized use of neighbor’s home network; child pornography conviction stands
http://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2019/11/04/17-10354.pdf
 
Electoral College: ‘Save Our States’ group building support for the electoral college
https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/11/13/save-our-states-is-fighting-to-keep-the-electoral-college-alive/

Electoral College: “‘Popular Vote’ Movement Would Shift Power to Big Cities, Experts Warn”
https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/11/08/popular-vote-movement-would-shift-power-to-big-cities-experts-warn/

‘A’ for Effort - man dies, is revived, claims he has served his life sentence
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/us-judges-reject-prisoner-s-claim-that-he-completed-life-sentence-when-he-briefly-died