How America Got Its Mojo – our constitutional exceptionalism in a nutshell

How America Got Its Mojo – our constitutional exceptionalism in a nutshell
http://www.constitutionnext.com/blog/american-exceptionalism-in-a-nutshell

5A,14A – federal court strikes Trump’s DACA rescission on procedural (APA) grounds; defers ruling on equal protection and due process claims
https://ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show_public_doc?2017cv2325-70

Conflict of visions of national injunctions on display in sanctuary cities case – ‘narrow questions of law’ as limiting principle?
http://reason.com/volokh/2018/04/20/the-seventh-circuit-splits-on-the-nation

Separation of Powers – federal appeals court rules executive cannot condition grants to sanctuary cities on immigration enforcement cooperation
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/apr/19/trump-loses-appeal-punish-sanctuary-cities/

1A Religion: New Jersey school gets sued for Islamic indoctrination in violation of the First Amendment
https://www.thomasmore.org/news/new-jersey-middle-school-instructs-students-islam-true-faith-thomas-law-center-files-federal-lawsuit-must-see-video/

1A: thuggish tactics of SPLC, CAIR, Antifa, etc. imperil free speech rights of those exposing the truth about Islam – getting events cancelled, social media storms, etc.
https://leohohmann.com/2018/04/13/have-us-christians-already-lost-the-right-to-publicly-speak-against-islam/
 
1A: Muslim World League demands Europe ban hate speech that is protected under U.S. First Amendment
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/04/12/islam-demands-europe-ban-religious-hate/
 
1A: Trump-appointed judge, in dissent, would have found city campaign finance limit a violation of free speech
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/04/20/trump-judge-pushes-for-original-meaning-of-1st-amendment/

1A Freedom of the Press – Series explains how free press understood at the Founding, protects citizen journalists, etc.
http://reason.com/volokh/2018/04/25/evidence-from-around-the-framing-the-fre
+ http://reason.com/volokh/2018/04/24/freedom-for-the-press-as-an-industry-or
+ http://reason.com/volokh/2018/04/21/do-ordinary-speakers-have-lesser-first-a
 
2A: Illinois is sued for banning home day-care operators from having guns in their homes
http://freebeacon.com/issues/gun-rights-groups-file-suit-behalf-illinois-day-care-operators/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=47f55f78b8-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_04_19&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-47f55f78b8-45628225
 
2A: federal judge in Massachusetts upholds state’s AR-15 ban in flawed opinion botching history and precedent
https://www.dailysignal.com/2018/04/11/bungling-judicial-precedent-federal-court-upholds-ar-15-ban/?utm_source=TDS_Email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=CapitolBell&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTURNNU5XVXhZbVF3WVRZNCIsInQiOiJxaEVEOFdHd1VyR0E0MGRNbVRYbzRDeVZnMVllSnBZVmJoUHJaVThUR29uekRuU1BiYWZaTXM3RmlmMGpkRVN0QmtMeVA3c21sQmo2SCtcL05yQTczYVBBXC9FUEhpZDRSTXZhbFJNaTNiZkVpTnh3XC9lY1JBbVJUOGE3QU9OanpyaSJ9
 
2A: ‘lost’ CDC study shows there are 2.46 million defensive gun uses in the U.S. each year.
http://bwcentral.org/2018/04/newly-revealed-government-statistics-hidden-from-public-dismantle-liberal-gun-control-narrative/
 
14A: Connecticut human rights commission directs employers not to discriminate against job applicants with dishonorable discharges
https://www.theday.com/military-news/20180419/employers-directed-not-to-discriminate-based-on-military-discharge-status

14A: “ Court Rules Illegal Aliens Can Sue over “Discriminatory Employment Policy” Requiring Green Cards”
https://freenorthcarolina.blogspot.com/2018/04/court-rules-illegal-aliens-can-sue-over.html

14A: Justice Department sides with Asian-Americans applicants in discrimination suit against Harvard
https://www.politico.com/blogs/under-the-radar/2018/04/09/harvard-justice-affirmative-action-510570

Commerce Clause – can one state impose agricultural regulations on, or send enforcers into, other states?
http://www.jeffersonpolicyjournal.com/missouri-a-g-defends-virginias-sovereign-economic-interests/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=virginias_latest_policy_news_from_jefferson_policy_journal&utm_term=2018-04-19

Deference – statistics show Chevron reduces partisan judicial decision-making, or diminished judicial independence and institutionalized judicial bias, depending on your POV
http://www.libertylawsite.org/2018/04/12/chevron-deference-administrative-state-philip-hamburger/

One Person One Vote –constitutional amendment requiring ‘compact districts’ proposed as solution to gerrymandering
http://www.libertylawsite.org/2018/04/23/the-compactness-solution-to-gerrymandering/

Separation of Powers – end today’s cross-delegation mess by enacting amendment cut from original Bill of Rights that no branch shall exercise powers vested in another branch
https://freedomoutpost.com/the-bill-of-rights-is-missing-an-amendment/

Fringe-to-mainstream process of acceptance of new theories shows importance of free speech in science.
http://quillette.com/2018/04/13/scientific-importance-free-speech/

Thomas Jefferson Says: Sure, Take Away My Statues (parody with a point)
https://www.potomacteaparty.com/jefferson-statues.html