In this paper, we analyze the increasing efforts by the states to crack down on speed and red-light violations via the use of traffic cameras, how the states seem to have gotten around the Confrontation Clause by reclassifying crimes to “civil violations,” and the numerous issues with this approach.
The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment in Hemani’s favor. Justice Gorsuch concluded that the government’s prosecution of Hemani under § 922(g)(3)’s unlawful-user provision was inconsistent with the Second Amendment as applied to him. Importantly, however, the Court did not find § 922(g)(3) unconstitutional in every possible application. The distinction between declaring a law unconstitutional and declaring its application to a particular person unconstitutional is important to understanding Hemani.
In Trump v. Cook, the Supreme Court considered whether to grant a stay on behalf of the government against a preliminary injunction to prevent the removal of Lisa Cook, a member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
Following the inauguration of President Donald Trump in his second term in office, the federal government has largely increased immigration-enforcement activities throughout the United States, with the stated focus of deporting and removing undocumented immigrants.
In the case of Barrett v. United States, 607 U.S. ___ (2026), Dwayne Barrett, a getaway driver in a string of 2011-2012 New York armed robberies, was arrested and indicted on seven charges for being an accomplice in the robbery and killing of Gamar Dafalla.