Presidents lack the authority to order a national quarantine (Constitution news round-up)

10A: Presidents lack the authority to order a national quarantine
https://www.npr.org/2020/04/02/825293201/a-president-is-not-able-to-order-a-national-quarantine-experts-say

Supreme Court followed rule against federal courts imposing last-minute changes on elections in refusing to extend period for absentee balloting in Wisconsin
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/07/liberals-recoil-at-supreme-court-decision-on-wisconsin-primary-171347

4A: Supreme Court OK’s warrantless traffic stops based on expired plates instead of a moving violation
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/apr/6/supreme-court-rules-unwarranted-traffic-stops-are-/

Discrimination: Supreme Court makes it easier for federal workers over 40 to sue for age discrimination, but relief limited if age not the only factor
https://www.npr.org/2020/04/06/828052688/supreme-court-hands-federal-worker-partial-win-in-age-discrimination-case

1A Religion: 40 amicus briefs filed in Supreme Court case testing whether Catholic school teachers are barred by the ‘ministerial exception’ from bringing employment discrimination claims against their employers
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2020/04/08/Supreme-Court-tackles-whether-teachers-at-religious-schools-are-ministers/2411586270166/?ls=1

1A Religion: Supreme Court turns away Catholic Church challenge to transit system ban on religious advertising
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/04/06/religious-liberty-supreme-court-church-challenge-ad-ban/5067001002/

1A Viewpoint Discrimination: student group sues Georgia Tech for refusing to reimburse expenses of bringing pro-life Alveda King to speak
https://www.lifenews.com/2020/04/02/georgia-tech-faces-lawsuit-after-discriminating-against-mlk-niece-alveda-king-because-shes-pro-life/

14A Due Process: Part of New York’s new rent control law, applied retroactively, is unconstitutional (New York Court of Appeals)
https://reason.com/2020/04/08/jacobson-v-massachusetts-1905-and-lochner-v-new-york-1905-in-april-2020/

1A,4A: proposed EARN IT Act offends First and Fourth Amendments in several ways
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/03/earn-it-act-violates-constitution
 
Free Expression: Pakistan wants UN to label all organizations critical of Islam as ‘terrorists’
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2020/03/at-un-pakistan-calls-for-labeling-organizations-critical-of-islam-as-terrorists
 
2A: Pandemic bringing out first-time liberal gun-buyers
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/04/06/choose-your-weapon
 
4A: Fourth Circuit tells trial court to explore constitutionality of ‘cell-site simulators’ after Baltimore police track down attempted murder suspect with the new technology
http://www.ca4.uscourts.gov/opinions/181953.P.pdf
 
“Medicare Is Facially Un-Constitutional” - “giving up essential liberty for an illusion of security”
https://www.jpands.org/vol25no1/rosenwasser.pdf