Stephen G. Breyer & First Amendment Newsletter
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Federal Prison Guards Allegedly Beat an Inmate to a Pulp. The Supreme Court Says He Can't Sue.
04 Jul 2025 01:10 GMT
… alleged a violation of his First Amendment rights, because after he complained … context," wrote Justice Sonia Sotomayor, joined by Justices Stephen Breyer and Elena Kagan … ; legislative graveyard. Based on the Supreme Court's jurisprudence on this …
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“Obergefell Must Go” Yes, or No?
06 Jul 2025 06:57 GMT
… and joined by Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor, … First Amendment.
The Dissenters
The dissenting justices (Chief Justice John Roberts, and Justices … bring litigation before the Supreme Court, triggering Obergefell‘s reversal …
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OP-ED: Schools Are Flunking the First Amendment
27 May 2025 18:42 GMT
… about work have no First Amendment protection. However, the Supreme Court has never extended … by Justice Robert Jackson, the court found that the First Amendment could … little intellectual heterodoxy. As Justice Stephen G. Breyer wrote in Mahanoy Area School …
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Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer weighs in on political climate
24 May 2025 05:35 GMT
… EXERCISE ITS FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS. THIS WEEK, FORMER SUPREME COURT JUSTICE STEPHEN BREYER WAS … , retired United States Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer sat down with KCRA … , retired United States Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer sat down with KCRA …
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Supreme Court fight over Catholic charter school could clear the way for taxpayer-funded religious schools
29 Apr 2025 18:13 GMT
… scholarship program that – citing the First Amendment’s prohibition against “establishing” … Roberts wrote.
In that case, Justice Stephen Breyer, then the court’s senior … one member of the Supreme Court’s conservative majority – Justice Amy Coney Barrett …
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Justice David Souter Played Key Role in High School Sports Law
10 May 2025 15:42 GMT
Retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice David Souter died Thursday … Circuit, a justice on the New Hampshire Supreme Court and Attorney … , Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer, Souter held that TSSAA … the TSSAA violated the First Amendment. TSSAA found a letter …
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How Trump Could Remake the Supreme Court for a Generation
11 Feb 2025 10:38 GMT
… Practicing for retirement? Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and Justice Samuel Alito attend a … that corporations have a freewheeling First Amendment right to censor what … last two justices who retired voluntarily (Anthony Kennedy and Stephen Breyer) were …
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Democracy Works: How the Supreme Court could shape the 2024 election
28 Oct 2024 17:53 GMT
… might also understand the Supreme Court in particular justices, too. And, … we've seen Supreme Court justices say and act like … what happened to the First Amendment. And that made it … , it would have been Justice Stephen Breyer, like Elena Kagan, Anthony …
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Supreme Court Oklahoma’s Catholic Charter School Asks U.S. Supreme Court for Review Linda Jacobson October 7, 2024
07 Oct 2024 20:44 GMT
… the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment. In April, Oklahoma Attorney … school appealed to the Supreme Court.
While the justices asked for the U … public schools.”
‘Incredibly popular’
Former Justice Stephen Breyer, a liberal, raised the possibility …
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Pro-life sidewalk counselors ask Supreme Court to revisit decision upholding abortion 'bubble zones'
18 Jul 2024 23:43 GMT
… abortion clinic.
Democrat-appointed Justices Stephen Breyer and Ruth Bader Ginsburg joined … Republican-appointed Justices Sandra Day O’Connor, … the Supreme Court.
Expressing hope that the Supreme Court will “restore the First Amendment rights …