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Justice Stevens and Constitutional Adjudication: The Law Beyond the Rules

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Jan 30, 2026
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What do the Supreme Court precedents Afroyim v. Rusk and Vance v. Terrazas say about Congress's power to revoke citizenship?

established that the Fourteenth Amendment protects citizens from involuntary divestiture of citizenship and rejected ’s power to strip citizenship absent the individual's assent . confirmed Afroyim’s ...

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How did Hiibel v. Sixth Judicial District change the rules about identifying oneself to police?

held that a state may criminally require a person detained under the limited standard of to disclose his name to an officer, so long as the stop itself is lawful and the statute is not vague or broad ...

Feb 2, 2026

What does the Supreme Court’s Payton v. New York decision say about entering homes to make arrests?

(445 U.S. 573 ) holds that, absent , the prohibits police from making a warrantless, nonconsensual entry into a suspect’s home to effect a routine felony arrest, drawing “a firm line at the entrance t...