^{Posts January 28, 2018}

^{These are the 2018 that are accumulated in our weekly newsletter which goes out throughout the school year. The posts are organized by the major units in our Constitutional Law (5th ed.) student textbook}

US Legal News Round Up for Saturday, 27 January 2018  [Jurist, 1/27/18]: interest Thursday on behalf of two conservative student groups at the University of California, Berkeley who are suing the school for violation of their First Amendment rights to free speech, due process and equal protection. The US …

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I.          Introduction to Law, the Constitution, and the Supreme Court [See TOPICS 1-10 in the 5^th edition of Constitutional Law] Some recent articles that are relevant to this unit

Ethics, race, bias among advice Sotomayor gives UH law students [Houston Chron, 1/27/18]: Supreme Court justice answers questions, tells law students to get involved in isoheson.

http://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Ethics-race-bias-among-advice-Sotomayor-gives-12529702.php

The Supreme Court's Travel Ban Dilemma [The Atlantic, 1/27/18]: The justices face a historic choice regarding presidential power.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/01/travel-ban-supreme-court/551669/

II.         Defining the Political System: Federalism and Checks and Balances [See TOPICS 11-15 in the 5^th edition of Constitutional Law] Some recent articles that are relevant to this unit:

^{The American Presidency [TOPIC 15]}

Trump sticking to economic script in his first State of the Union address [SF Chron, 1’27’18]: If President Trump follows the traditional choreography during his first State of the Union address Tuesday night, he’ll proclaim to a joint session of Congress that the state of the union is strong. The state of the presidency, however, “is at a crossroads,” said Barbara Perry, a director of the Miller Center of public policy at the University of Virginia and a longtime presidential scholar.

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III. The Political System: Voting and Campaigns

Trump’s immigration plan puts Democrats in a vise [SF Chron, 1/27/18]: The Trump administration’s newly released plan to resolve the fate of young immigrants who arrived in the country illegally as children would constitute the biggest change to immigration policy in decades, putting Democrats and their allies in a painful vise. 

http://www.sfchronicle.com/nation/article/Trump-s-immigration-plan-puts-Democrats-in-a-12531055.php

^{Legislation and the Legislative Process}

Meet The Folksiest Man In The U.S. Senate [Huff Post, 1/27/18]:  Sweet biscuits of mercy -- it's Sen. John Neely Kennedy.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/john-kennedy-colorful-senate_us_5a68eef6e4b0dc592a0f138f

IV.       Cminal Law and Procedure (4^th, 5^th, 6^th, and 8^th amendments) [See TOPICS 21-28 in the 5^th edition of Constitutional Law] Some recent articles that are relevant to this unit:

V.        1^st Amendment (Speech, Religion, Press and Assembly) [See TOPICS 29-33 in the 5^th edition of Constitutional Law] Some recent articles that are relevant to this unit:

DOJ files statement of interest in First Amendment lawsuit at UC Berkeley

[Jurist, 1/27/18]: he Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a statement of interest Thursday on behalf of two conservative student groups at the University of California, Berkeley who are suing the school for violation of their First Amendment rights to free speech, due process and equal protection. The complaint was filed by the Berkeley College Republicans (BCR) 

http://www.jurist.org/paperchase/2018/01/doj-files-statement-of-interest-in-first-amendment-lawsuit-at-uc-berkeley.php

Circuit Blasts School District for Free Speech Violations [CNS, 1/28/18]: A rural Oregon school district violated the Constitution when it banned striking teachers from school grounds along with students who publicly supported the strike, the Ninth Circuit ruled Friday.

https://www.courthousenews.com/circuit-blasts-school-district-for-free-speech-violations/

VI.       14^th Amendment, Discrimination, Privacy, Working, Citizenship & Immigration [See TOPICS 34-41 in the 5^th edition of Constitutional Law] Some recent articles that are relevant to this unit: