Constitutional Law
8670 ABA Journal Constitutional Law articles.
The federal ban on gun possession by felons doesn't appear to be affected by a
2022 Second Amendment decision by the U.S. Supreme Court, a federal appeals court has ruled.
Sep 18, 2023 3:50 PM CDT
An en banc federal appeals court has ordered a California school district to reinstate a Fellowship of Christian Athletes club that was not recognized because of its required anti-same-sex-marriage affirmation for student leaders.
Sep 18, 2023 8:19 AM CDT
New rulemaking doesn’t save DACA
A new administrative rule intended to “preserve and fortify” the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program doesn’t cure its illegality, according to a Sept.…
Sep 15, 2023 2:28 PM CDT
Seventy-seven percent of surveyed Americans were able to recall that the First Amendment protects freedom of speech, but less than half were able to name other rights protected by that amendment.
Sep 15, 2023 11:20 AM CDT
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito on Thursday temporarily blocked an injunction that curbed the Biden administration’s communications with social media.
Sep 15, 2023 9:45 AM CDT
A law that bans truthful firearms advertising that appeals to minors should be blocked, a federal appeals court has ruled.
Sep 14, 2023 1:29 PM CDT
John Yoo, a professor at the University of California at Berkeley School of Law—known for the
Department of Justice "Torture Memos" that he wrote supporting waterboarding—testified Tuesday in support of one of John Eastman’s legal theories on how to overturn the 2020 election.
Sep 14, 2023 12:00 PM CDT
The conservative legal movement gained ground after the U.S. Supreme Court
struck down restrictions on independent campaign spending by corporations in the 2010
Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission ruling.
Sep 12, 2023 8:15 AM CDT
Updated: The U.S. government likely violated the First Amendment by pressuring social media companies to block COVID-19 misinformation and other content, a federal appeals court ruled Friday.
Sep 11, 2023 10:42 AM CDT
Many installments of this column have focused on
true-crime documentaries examining murder convictions and the legal process and “evidence” that led to them. While those series or stand-alone shows are undoubtedly intriguing, we always seem to be left with the same conclusion: Even if the defendant didn’t kill the person, the person is still dead. But what if we were presented with a situation in which someone was convicted for the murder of a person who was subsequently found alive and well?
Sep 6, 2023 9:42 AM CDT
A federal appeals court has refused to disturb a panel opinion upholding a ban on gun possession by felons, creating a circuit split.
Sep 5, 2023 2:16 PM CDT
A law grad with a
campaign website and a plan to launch a write-in presidential candidacy has filed several lawsuits contending that former President Donald Trump is barred from running under the 14th Amendment.
Sep 5, 2023 10:12 AM CDT
A former assistant attorney general who oversaw the investigation and prosecution of a drug-using chemist at a Massachusetts crime lab has been disbarred for failing to disclose the full extent of the worker’s potential misconduct to affected drug defendants.
Sep 5, 2023 9:07 AM CDT
Delaware’s constitutional right to bail does not mean that it must be affordable for dangerous defendants, the state’s top court has ruled.
Sep 1, 2023 11:29 AM CDT
A Pennsylvania lawyer does not have standing to challenge a state ethics rule banning discrimination and harassment in the practice of law, a federal appeals court has ruled.
Aug 31, 2023 8:55 AM CDT
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