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The US Supreme Court Monday declined to consider whether people born in American Samoa are entitled to birthright citizenship under the Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Currently, people born in American Samoa can apply for US citizenship but do not receive it automatically at birth. “The Justices continue to avoid answering basic questions about [...]

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Chief Justice John Roberts Saturday spoke at a judicial conference in Colorado Springs in his first public appearance since the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision, Colleen Slevin of AP News reported. The controversial ruling overturned Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey and established that there is no constitutional right to abortion [...]

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The US Supreme Court Monday agreed to hear Haaland v. Brackeen, a case dealing with challenges to the Indian Child Welfare Act. The appeal will include arguments from four consolidated cases. Though the suits were originally brought by different parties, all take issue with the Indian Child Welfare Act. The law was passed in 1978 in [...]

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The US Supreme Court Tuesday agreed to take up the case of a web designer who refuses to provide services related to same-sex marriages. In 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis, the court will once again consider how to balance religious freedoms with prohibitions against discrimination based on sexual orientation. The court previously addressed these issues [...]

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Idaho legislators proposed a bill Friday calling on Congress to close a legal loophole in a region encompassing an uninhabited 50-square mile tract of land within Yellowstone National Park, which supposedly permits the commission of serious criminal acts such as murder and kidnapping without consequences. Titled House Joint Memorial 3 and sponsored by Idaho State [...]

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The US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit on December 17 in a bipartisan, 2-1 decision upheld OSHA’s vaccine-or-test requirements for the American workplace and lifted a stay previously put in place by the Fifth Circuit. Judge Jane Stranch, an Obama appointee, joined by Judge Julia Gibbons, appointed by George W. Bush, wrote that [...]

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A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of Georgia Tuesday blocked a COVID-19 vaccine mandate for all employees of federal government contractors. US President Joe Biden had signed Executive Order 14042 in September, requiring all contractors that work with the US government to be vaccinated against COVID-19. Several states immediately challenged [...]

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The US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit affirmed a government ban on firearm accessories known as bump stocks, a device that modifies semi-automatic rifles to fire more rapidly, in Gun Owners of Am., Inc. v. Garland Friday. The Trump Administration outlawed bump stocks after a 2017 shooting in Las Vegas where the rapid-fire [...]

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The Tenth Circuit US Court of Appeals ruled Wednesday that Albuquerque’s panhandling ordinance violates First Amendment rights because the ordinance is not sufficiently narrow. Albuquerque’s panhandling ordinance prohibits pedestrians from standing or assembling on streets, medians, highway exit and entrance ramps, and major intersections. Pedestrians are also barred from talking to or interacting with drivers [...]

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The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Thursday ruled that it would not block an order requiring public disclosure of video recordings of the 2010 trial from a historic case that overturned California’s same-sex marriage ban, paving the way for the videos to be publicly released. Now-retired U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker presided over the 2010 two-week [...]

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