Posts for January 12, 2017
These are the posts
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.
California lawmaker wants teens to learn to spot fake
news [AP, 1/11/17]: Assemblyman Jimmy Gomez introduced a bill
Wednesday to help high schools teach students to tell real news from fake. The
Los Angeles Democrat said students should learn reasoning skills to assess what
they read online. AB155 would commission new curriculum standards that include
strategies for identifying false stories.
I. Introduction to Law, the
Constitution, and the Supreme Court [See TOPICS 1-10 in the 5th
edition of Constitutional Law]
Here are some recent articles that are relevant to this unit:
II. Defining the Political
System: Federalism and Checks and Balances [See TOPICS 11-15
in the 5th edition of Constitutional
Law] Here are recent articles that are relevant to this unit:
U.S. states mull
contraception coverage as Obamacare repeal looms [Reuters, 1/12/17]: Growing
numbers of U.S. states are seeking to ensure that women have continued access
to free birth control in case the insurance benefit is dropped as part of
President-elect Donald Trump's vow to repeal and replace the Affordable Care
Act.
The
American Presidency [TOPIC 15]
Trump SCOTUS Short-Lister
Gruender: Five Things to Know [Bloomberg / The Hill / Huff Post, 1/12/17]: President-elect Donald Trump has said he’ll choose
someone from his short list of 21 potential high court nominees. Here
are credentials of Eighth Circuit Judge Raymond
W. Gruender.
How Barack Obama Transformed The Nation's Courts [Huff Post, 1/12/17]: He filled two SCOTUS seats and
made the judiciary more diverse than ever; But the GOP stopped him from doing
more.
Trump drops ‘no new deals’ pledge / Federal ethics czar delivers
broadside against Trump conflicts plan [Politico, 1/11/17]: The
top federal ethics official says Trump's conflicts of interest plan is
'meaningless.'
III. The Political System: Voting and Campaigns
[See TOPICS 16-20 in the 5th edition of Constitutional Law] Here are some recent articles that are
relevant to this unit:
2018 Governors:
Over-extended Republicans Seek to Thwart History [Sabato’s Crystal Ball,
1/12/17]: When President-elect Donald Trump takes
the oath of office eight days from now, he will be completing a remarkable
journey, going from private citizen to the highest elected office in the nation
without any elected stop in between. But while Trump is, to put it mildly, a
unique figure in presidential politics, his journey is one that is we are
increasingly seeing on a smaller scale at the gubernatorial level.
IV. Criminal Law and Procedure (4th, 5th,
6th, and 8th amendments) [See TOPICS 21-28 in
the 5th edition of Constitutional Law] Here are some
recent articles that are relevant to this unit
I See Your
Immunity Doctrine And Raise You Another [Bloomberg, 1/12/17]: A battle of immunity doctrines—tribal versus official
immunity—played out at the U.S. Supreme Court Jan. 9 in Lewis v. Clarke.
ACLU publishes report on dangers of solitary confinement [Jurist,
1/12/17]: The report, titled "Caged In: The
Devastating Harms of Solitary Confinement on Prisoners with Physical
Disabilities," details how prisoners in solitary confinement are kept in
small cells roughly the size of parking spots for approximately 22 hours a day,
which has a negative impact on prisoners without disabilities and an even
larger impact on those with disabilities.
V. 1st Amendment
(Speech, Religion, Press and Assembly)
[See TOPICS 29-33 in the 5th edition of Constitutional Law] Here are some recent articles that
are relevant to this unit:
Libel case threatens another website [FAC, 1/12/17]: The TechDirt website is facing a $15 million lawsuit by
a deep pocket antagonist who could well bankrupt the company the way
billionaire Peter Thiel put Gawker Media down.
VI. 14th
Amendment, Discrimination, Privacy, Working, Citizenship & Immigration [See TOPICS 34-41 in the 5th edition of Constitutional Law] Here are some recent articles that are relevant to
this unit:
Third Circuit issues major
ADEA ruling creating circuit split [Reuter / CA3 blog, 1/12/17]: A U.S.
appeals court on Tuesday became the first to hold that federal age bias law
offers protections to 'subgroups' of older workers, saying three courts that
ruled otherwise improperly restricted the scope of the law.
SCOTUS Struggles With Duty Owed to Disabled Students [Bloomberg, 1/12/17]: The U.S. Supreme Court struggled to
articulate the duty schools owe to disabled students during oral argument Jan.
11 in Endrew F. v. Douglas Cty.
Sch. Dist. RE-1.The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act
requires that schools that accept federal money for educating disabled students
provide those students with a “free appropriate public education.” What does
that mean in practice?
Justices Face 'Blizzard of
Words' in Special Education Case [NY Times, 1/11/17]: In a case that could affect the education of 6.7 million children with
disabilities, the Supreme Court on Wednesday struggled
to decide whether it should require public schools to do more under a federal
law that calls for them to provide a free education that addresses the
children’s needs.
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