Baltimore gives up quest to seize Preakness (Constitution news round-up)

5A Eminent Domain: Gangster Baltimore gives up quixotic quest to seize Pimlico race track and Preakness horse race; negotiating with owners to stay in the city
https://reason.com/2019/07/11/update-on-the-preakness-takings-case/

Art. I Sec.8: federal grants can be withheld from sanctuary cities and prioritized for locales that play ball on immigration enforcement (9th Circuit - can you believe it?)
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/452862-9th-circuit-rules-in-favor-of-trump-admin-in-sanctuary-city-case

Administrative Procedure Act - 4 advocacy groups sue to stop Trump administration asylum rule requiring prior application for refuge in transit country
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2019/07/16/ACLU-sues-to-block-Trumps-new-sweeping-asylum-restrictions/6181563332966/?ls=2

Executive Power: appeals court greenlights (for now) Trump executive orders cutting time government employees may devote to union activities, redirects challenge to administrative agency (D.C. Circuit)
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2019/07/16/Court-overturns-blocking-of-Trumps-workforce-orders/5211563299296/?mph=3

Emoluments: 4th Circuit dismisses emoluments lawsuit involving Trump's D.C. hotel, suggests suit was harassment and should not have been brought (a “complete victory”, Trump’s attorney said)
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/appeals-court-sides-president-trump-dismisses-emoluments-lawsuit/story?id=64240721
 
1A: President Trump cannot block his Twitter followers, 2nd Circuit rules
https://www.npr.org/2019/07/09/739906562/u-s-appeals-court-rules-trump-violated-first-amendment-by-blocking-twitter-follo
 
8A Civil Forfeiture: new law prevents IRS from seizing bank accounts without a connection to criminal activity
https://reason.com/2019/07/12/short-circuit-a-roundup-of-recent-federal-court-decisions-10/

1A: “Democrat Montana Governor Vetoes Campus Free Speech Bill”
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2019/06/28/democrat-montana-governor-vetoes-campus-free-speech-bill/
 
Free Expression - UK activist Tommy Robinson gets 9 months in prison for telling the truth about Islam; thousands protest
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7235869/Dozens-Tommy-Robinson-supporters-gather-outside-Old-Bailey.html

2A: federal judge blocks California agency effort to ban gun shows from San Diego county fairgrounds
https://freebeacon.com/issues/federal-judge-blocks-calif-boards-attempt-to-ban-gun-shows/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=23b72439e1-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_06_19_08_32_COPY_205&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-23b72439e1-45628225

Shame! - Minneapolis suburb abolished Pledge of Allegiance at city council meetings but forced to relent after nationwide backlash
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/jul/15/st-louis-park-city-council-reinstates-pledge-alleg/

Kudos! - Patriots bring American flags to Colorado ICE facility after protesters take down and attempt to burn Stars-and-Stripes, hoist Reconquista Mexican flag
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/jul/14/american-flag-donations-pour-after-protesters-rais/