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    N.Y. Court to Mom: Remove Rock Painted With Confederate Flag Or It Will Be Considered In Custody Hearing

    “Given that the child is of mixed race, it would seem apparent that the presence of the flag is not in the child's best interests, as the mother must encourage and teach the child to embrace her mixed race identity, rather than thrust her into a world that only makes sense through the tortured...
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    A Strong Rebuke To Those Calling For Northam To Resign

    Northam and I are, undoubtedly, on separate sides of the political seesaw. However, I’m concerned with the ostensibly pervasive sentiment that mistakes characterized as poor taste, poor exercise of judgment, racially insensitive but not necessarily racist or motivated by racial animus, committed...
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    Free Speech and Nonmember Union Agency Fees

    https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/17pdf/16-1466_2b3j.pdf “The State’s extraction of agency fees from nonconsenting public- sector employees violates the First Amendment. Abood erred in con- cluding otherwise, and stare decisis cannot support it. Abood is therefore overruled.” “Forcing free...
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    Trump Travel Ban Lawful

    https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/17pdf/17-965_h315.pdf I saw this one coming, based on the prior precedent. "The President has lawfully exercised the broad discretion granted to him under section 1182 to suspend the entry of aliens into United States...By its terms, §1182(f) exudes...
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    Carter and Trump: What They May Have In Common?

    http://www.ijreview.com/2015/12/489202-remember-back-when-jimmy-carter-forbade-immigration-from-iran-and-expelled-and-immigrants-from-iran-and-expelled/?_ga=1.68360145.1777871268.1449683875 http://www.frontpagemag.com/point/261062/carter-banned-iranians-coming-us-during-hostage-daniel-greenfield...
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    Revoking Doctors' License and Limits of Free Speech

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/revoke-the-license-of-any-doctor-who-opposes-vaccination/2015/02/06/11a05e50-ad7f-11e4-9c91-e9d2f9fde644_story.html Unfortunately some doctors...say that vaccines cause autism, as in the famous case of Andrew Wakefield, whose study drawing the link has...
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    Some Successful 1st Amendment Challenges To Some Aspects of Sex Offender Registration Requirements

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2014/11/19/convicted-sex-offenders-jehovahs-witnesses-and-the-first-amendment/ Quote from the decision below: Interesting case.
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    D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals Decides IRS Rule Permitting Subsidies for Federal Exchanges Is Not Permitted Under the ACA

    The decision is from the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals and was 2-1. This decision doesn't surprise me as sometime ago over at the website, volokh conspiracy, some attorneys had the prescience to predict this outcome. Upon discovering the lawsuit, I decided to read the statute and, to my...
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