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The legal history of bans on firearms and Bowie knives before 1900

Bowie knives are back in constitutional law news these days, after a very long absence. The U.S. Supreme Court's Bruen decision instructs lower courts to look to U.S. legal history to see what sorts of restrictions on Second Amendment rights are consistent with the mainstream American legal tradition. According to…

Reason

State asks Georgia Supreme Court to allow enforcement of abortion law

ATLANTA — Attorneys representing Gov. Brian Kemp on Friday asked the Georgia Supreme Court to reverse a Superior Court ruling released earlier this week that blocked enforcement of the state’s anti-abortion law.

Tribune News Service

NC Democrats' parity in Congress delegation may be fleeting

Democrats celebrated winning North Carolina's lone toss-up race for the U.S. House this month as Wiley Nickel won the 13th District seat

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Georgia asks court to immediately reinstate abortion ban

Georgia officials have asked a court to immediately block a judge’s ruling striking down the state’s abortion ban

The Independent UK

Hitman Kenneth Eugene Smith who killed preacher's wife dodges execution at 11th hour

Kenneth Eugene Smith, who killed preacher's wife Elizabeth Sennett for a $1,000 bounty saw the deadline for his execution pass after a failure to find a vein to inject the lethal dose

Daily Mirror

Jan 6, Mar-a-Lago and a golf course: The investigations Donald Trump is facing

The former president, his business and allies are under scrutiny for tax fraud allegations, real estate practices and a plot to steal the 2020 election

The Independent UK

Trump’s presidential run faces legal challenges over his role in Jan. 6 ‘insurrection’

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump faces an unprecedented effort to disqualify him from being on the ballot again over his role in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, raising the specter of legal chaos in the 2024 election long before voters go to the polls.

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Stephen Barbee who killed pregnant ex-girlfriend and her son, 7, is executed

Stephen Barbee, 55, was given a lethal injection at the Texas state penitentiary in Huntsville with his execution prolonged due to him having a disability and officials struggled to find a vein

Daily Mirror

Texas to execute man for killing ex-girlfriend and her son

A Texas inmate seeking to stop his execution over claims of religious freedom violations and indifference to his medical needs is facing a lethal injection for killing his pregnant ex-girlfriend and her 7-year-old son more than 17 years ago

The Independent UK

Arizona death-row prisoner makes last-minute claim to court

An Arizona prisoner scheduled to be executed for the 1980 killings of two people has asked the Supreme Court to review his claim that authorities had until recently withheld that a survivor had failed to identify him in a photo lineup

The Independent UK

Some Thoughts on Elite-Law-School Bias in Clerkship Hiring

Does the bias exist? Is it a good thing? What does it mean for law students at lower-ranked schools? What does mean about me?

Reason

Judge overturns Georgia's abortion ban that started after just six weeks

The ban had been in place since July but it meant that many abortions were illegal before the mother even knew she was pregnant

Wales Online

Lawsuit: Mississippi abortion ban might not be valid yet

A group of anti-abortion doctors in Mississippi say the validity of the state’s law banning most abortions remains uncertain

The Independent UK

Rob Rinder: I love nothing more than knowing nothing about our judges’ politics

I’ve always been hooked on American politics. I’m the kind of nerd who reads transcripts of presidential speeches for pleasure and listens to US Supreme Court arguments while going to sleep. It’s astonishing that I’m still single.

Evening Standard

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Split-ticket voting for U.S. Senate and governor

Welcome to the Monday, November 14, Brew.

The Independent UK

LOCALIZE IT: How abortion played a role in US elections

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Salon

SCOTUS takes up animal welfare standards

Widely approved by voters, SCOTUS will decide if Proposition 12 should be upheld. But what will the decision mean?

Salon

Justices attend right-wing gala

Three of the four Supreme Court justices in attendance were nominated by Donald Trump

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Daily Mirror

Tracy Beatty who killed mum and buried body in back garden is put to death in Texas

Tracy Beatty, 61, has been given a lethal injection in Texas, after killing his mother and burying her body in her backyard, despite his lawyers saying he had a history of mental illness

The Conversation

We're putting gender at the heart of the Fair Work Act, but there's still no compassionate leave for abortions

This year’s landmark decision of the US Supreme Court to overturn the constitutional right to abortion established by the Roe versus Wade judgement in 1973 leaves Australian women better off than those in the United States.

WEKU

Where abortion was on the ballot, midterm voters largely signaled support

Voters in several states were asked to weigh in on ballot measures specifically related to abortion rights.

Los Angeles Times

Proposition 1 abortion rights ballot measure passes in California

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California will codify its progressive abortion protections in its state Constitution after voters overwhelmingly approved Proposition 1, a measure placed on the ballot in the aftermath of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe vs. Wade.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Josh Shapiro wins in the high-stakes Pennsylvania governor’s race

PHILADELPHIA — Josh Shapiro won his bid Tuesday for governor in swing-state Pennsylvania, where he pledged to fend off Republican “extremists” who he said threatened to roll back rights for voting, gay marriage and access to abortion.

Tribune News Service

South Carolina Gov. McMaster wins reelection against Democrat Cunningham to serve second 4-year term

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Gov. Henry McMaster won reelection Tuesday to a second four-year term as South Carolina’s chief executive, a historic win that puts the Columbia Republican on track to become the longest-serving governor in state history.

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Minnesota tribal members ponder future of Native child welfare ahead of Supreme Court challenge

MINNEAPOLIS — Sheri Riemers, a member of the White Earth Band of Ojibwe, was 19 when she learned that two of her mother's sisters were removed from their birth home in the early 1970s and placed with separate non-Indian foster parents. One of the sisters was sexually abused and forcibly…

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