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Supreme Court docket full of contentious issues (Constitution news round-up)

1/8/2020

 
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Supreme Court docket full of contentious issues - gun rights, DACA, LGBTQ, abortion, state aid to religious schools, CFPB, Trump financial records
https://www.theepochtimes.com/supreme-court-legal-fights-to-watch-in-2020_3195108.html

1A Speech: You can burn the U.S. flag but not the gay flag? #PretzelLogic You get 16 years in prison for burning the gay flag - wow!  This hate crime stuff has gone way too far.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/dec/19/adolfo-martinez-iowa-man-who-burned-lgbtq-flag-sen/
  • Why isn’t burning the U.S. flag considered a hate crime? What clearer expression of hatred for Americans could there be?

Supremacy Clause: federal judge temporarily enjoins new California gig economy law that prevents truckers from operating as independent contractors
https://www.theepochtimes.com/federal-judge-shields-independent-truckers-from-california-law_3196939.html

Amendments: Virginia election prompts 3 states to sue to stop 1970s Equal Rights Amendment on theory deadline for ratification has passed
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/12/19/south-dakota-sues-keep-equal-rights-amendment-off-u-s-constitution/2697209001/
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https://www.lifenews.com/2019/12/23/states-file-lawsuit-to-stop-passage-of-era-which-would-allow-abortions-up-to-birth-nationwide/
 
1A Religion: public health trumps Amish schoolers’ challenge to state vaccine law, NY Supreme Court rules
https://www.dcclothesline.com/2019/12/26/ny-supreme-court-rules-amish-cannot-exercise-religious-vaccine-exemption-to-attend-their-own-private-amish-school/
 
1A Religion: Michigan county threatens to demolish Amish homes unless they modernize.  (And this leaves the Amish in this country, where, exactly?)
https://dcdirtylaundry.com/michigan-county-threatens-to-demolish-14-amish-homes-unless-they-give-up-their-religious-beliefs-and-upgrade-their-homes/
 
1A Speech: Texas woman challenges USPS regulation against customizing personalized postage stamps with religious content (‘it is viewpoint discrimination to allow all views except religious views’)
https://www.theepochtimes.com/lawsuit-alleges-usps-rule-barring-any-depiction-of-religious-content-on-stamps-violates-first-amendment_3179713.html
  • Really, Post Office?










  • Shame! on Rutgers Professor Kathe Sandler who told students to use outside sources in assigned paper but not to quote the Bible because that would offend ‘separation of church and state’.  A student is not the state, you dimwit. But you are (public university).  You are mixed up and don’t know the first thing about constitutional law.  As a government agent, you cannot engage in viewpoint discrimination or allow all views except religious views.  Shame on you! 
    https://legalinsurrection.com/2020/01/rutgers-student-told-not-to-quote-bible-in-paper-because-of-separation-of-church-and-state/

2A: Virginia gun sanctuary movement spreads to Kentucky
https://www.kentucky.com/news/state/kentucky/article238908618.html
 
2A: Gun owner puts quick end to Texas church shooting
https://www.dailysignal.com/2020/01/06/concealed-carry-law-in-texas-prevented-mass-murder/
 
2A: “Virginia Congresswoman Proposes Bill Empowering Credit Card Companies to Track, Report Gun Purchases” #AuthoritarianLeft
https://www.gunsamerica.com/digest/virginia-bill-credit-card-companies-track-gun-purchases/?fbclid=IwAR2e5mTIIr6nzvk-9MM6viaw_WUEodjMSJfePZeJ_d47QsHsPf23saTdHao
 
4A: Maryland groups oppose Baltimore police drones
https://www.foxnews.com/us/baltimore-civil-rights-groups-oppose-aerial-surveillance-pilot-program-aimed-at-stemming-violent-crime
 
4A: information gathered on U.S. citizen incidental to surveillance of non-nationals abroad does not require a warrant, 2nd Circuit rules
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-courts-surveillance/warrant-not-always-needed-for-inadvertent-nsa-surveillance-of-americans-u-s-court-idUSKBN1YN02U

5A Eminent Domain: Tenth Circuit declines to overturn trial judge’s ruling government need not compensate criminal defendant for home destroyed in police action
https://www.ca10.uscourts.gov/opinions/18/18-1051.pdf

10A: panel discusses ‘horizontal federalism’ whereby states seek to impose their policies on other states
https://fedsoc.org/conferences/2019national-lawyers-convention?#agenda-item-horizontal-federalism-may-states-project-their-sovereignty-beyond-their-borders

14A: documentary tells the story of one of the worst Supreme Court decisions ever - Korematsu
https://fedsoc.org/commentary/videos/korematsu-versus-us?autoplay=1

The General Welfare clause does not mean ‘anything goes’. The clause was intended to limit Congressional actions to those that benefit the whole, not some group.
https://www.krisannehall.com/index.php/resources/articles/208-general-welfare-clause-james-madison-s-warning-its-not-about-money

Mayor Pee-wee Pete just wrong in asserting the Founders didn’t understand slavery was evil; they teed things up to get rid of it.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2020/01/02/what-the-founders-actually-thought-about-slavery/



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