Month: May 2024

Episode # 92
Today on Legalese we have a decision in the NRA v. Vullo case. It is a major victory for the First Amendment and gun rights.
We have been closely following this case on my channel over the last year as part of my annual Supreme Court Roundup.
The Supreme Court on Thursday, May 30, 2024 reinstated a lawsuit by the National Rifle Association, alleging that a New York official violated the group’s First Amendment rights when she urged banks and insurance companies not to do business with it in the wake of the 2018 shooting at a Florida high school.
In a unanimous decision by Justice Sonia Sotomayor, the justices agreed that the NRA had made out a case that Maria Vullo, then the head of New York’s Department of Financial Services, had gone too far in her efforts to get companies and banks to cut ties with the NRA, crossing over the line from efforts to persuade the companies and banks – which would be permitted – to attempts to coerce them, which are not.

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Episode # 91
Today on Legalese, we discuss the case of Dexter Taylor.
New York has sentenced a 53-year-old black man with no criminal history to 10 years behind bars for the crime of exercising his constitutionally protected Second Amendment rights.

Dexter Taylor, a software engineer from Brooklyn, was raided by police and arrested in 2022 after Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzales, the man who pledged to lead “the most progressive D.A.’s office in the country,” brought a 37-count indictment against him. The crime? Taylor was using his skills as a machinist to build his own firearms, specifically firearms that Democrats have nicknamed “ghost guns,” or guns built by nontraditional manufacturers.

Taylor’s family has created a GiveSendGo to help with his legal fees as he prepares to fight his case, which could go as high as the Supreme Court.

Show Notes Page For This Episode – https://constitutionallaw.substack.com/p/show-notes-dexter-taylor-case

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Episode # 90
Today on Legalese, we discuss the Supreme Court’s recent decision in the case of Culley v. Marshall and how the concurring and dissenting opinions spell the beginning of the end of the immoral and unconstitutional practice of civil asset forfeiture.

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