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  • The morning read for Friday, April 11 April 11, 2025
    ShareEach weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Friday morning read: US Supreme Court tells Trump administration to facilitate return of Salvadoran man deported in error (John Kruzel & Andrew Chung, Reuters) Supreme Court says Trump officials must ‘facilitate’ return of wrongly deported man […]
  • Justices direct government to facilitate return of Maryland man mistakenly deported to El Salvador April 10, 2025
    ShareThe Supreme Court on Thursday evening largely left in place an order by a federal judge in Maryland directing the government to return to the United States a Maryland man who is currently being held in a maximum-security prison in El Salvador as a result of what the Trump administration concedes was an “administrative error.” […]
  • The morning read for Thursday, April 10 April 10, 2025
    ShareEach weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Thursday morning read: Supreme Court lets Trump remove independent regulators, for now (Ann E. Marimow, The Washington Post) Rulings in New York and Texas Curb Deportations of Venezuelans to El Salvador (Alan Feuer & Jonah E. […]

Welcome to Constitutional Law (CRJ200) Course Hub

Course Description

This course hub website contains OER/ZTC (Open Educational Resources/Zero Textbook Cost) resources for faculty teaching U.S. Constitutional Law (CRJ 200) at the Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC). These resources are freely available for use by BMCC faculty and beyond.

This work was created by Daniel DiPrenda, as part of the BMCC Open Education Initiative, which is co-led by the A. Philip Randolph Library and the Center for Excellence in Teaching, Learning, and Scholarship (CETLS). The BMCC Open Education Initiative is supported by the CUNY Office of Library Services (OLS) and funded by the New York State Department of Education.

This course provides a historical overview of the relationship of the states to the Bill of Rights, and how the U.S. Supreme Court has interpreted the powers of the federal government. The effect of the due process clause of the fourteenth Amendment on the application of the Bill of Rights to the states is examined through a study of the leading Supreme Court decisions related to criminal justice. Topics include characteristics and powers of the three branches of government, the principles governing the operation of the Bill of Rights, and the variables affecting the formulation of judicial policy.