Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey filed a lawsuit against Starbucks on Tuesday, February 11, 2025, in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri, alleging that Starbucks uses diversity, equity, and inclusion policies to discriminate on the basis of race, gender, and sexual orientation. Read More.
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A grand jury in West Baton Rouge Parish indicted Dr. Margaret Carpenter for prescribing abortion drugs to a pregnant teenager, possibly sparking a legal standoff between Louisiana and New York. Read More.
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Trump Dares the Courts to Stop Him
The New York Times, February 13, 2025
The president is challenging the constitutional order.
Trump’s Actions Have Created a Constitutional Crisis, Scholars Say
The New York Times, February 13, 2025
Law professors have long debated what the term means. But now many have concluded that the nation faces a reckoning as President Trump tests the boundaries of executive power.
Court sets March argument schedule
SCOTUSblog, February 10, 2025
The Supreme Court’s March argument session will include a dispute over a congressional voting map that created a second majority-Black district in Louisiana, a challenge to an accessibility program by the Federal Communications Commission in which the justices have been asked to revive the so-called... The post Court sets March argument schedule appeared first on SCOTUSblog.
Supreme Court Signals That Landmark Libel Ruling Is Secure
The New York Times, February 10, 2025
Attacked by two justices, lower-court judges and litigants, the 1964 ruling in New York Times v. Sullivan keeps getting cited approvingly in the Supreme Court’s decisions.
The Court Should Approach the Nondelegation Questions Posed by the FCC Case on its Docket in Recognition of the Fact that Delegations to the President (or Entities He Controls) Are Distinctively Problematic
Justia's Verdict, January 31, 2025
UC Davis Law professor Vikram David Amar discusses the Supreme Court case FCC v. Consumers’ Research et al., which challenges the constitutionality of the FCC’s delegation of authority under the nondelegation doctrine. Professor Amar argues that while the nondelegation doctrine has been historically dormant, the case highlights important constitutional considerations about the delegation of legislative authority, specifically the ability to reclaim delegated power, and he urges the Court to address these broader issues if it examines the nondelegation questions in this case.
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