The Legal Eagle’s spring 2025 issue contains articles on the Second Amendment, the separation between church and state, and predatory marketing to teens. A PDF of the Legal Eagle’s spring 2025 edition can be downloaded or individual articles can be read and/or printed from The Legal Eagle’s blog, The Lowdown.
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Here are the headlines from The Legal Eagle’s Spring 2025 Issue:
Blurring the Line Between Church and State
Legal conflicts are developing across the nation over the First Amendment’s Establishment Clause, as some states push for expanding the role of religion in public schools by incorporating the Ten Commandments or the Bible into state curriculum.
The Establishment Clause is contained, along with the Free Exercise Clause, in the U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment, which is the cornerstone of the nation’s right to freedom of religion. The First Amendment states: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion (Establishment Clause), or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; (Free Exercise Clause)… READ MORE
U.S. Supreme Court and the Second Amendment
In the U.S. Supreme Court’s more than 230 years of existence it has issued approximately 10 rulings on Second Amendment cases—the first in 1876. In 2024, the Court ruled in two Second Amendment cases—U.S. v. Rahimi, which addressed the constitutionality of banning gun rights for domestic abusers, and Garland v. Cargill, which addressed banning bump stocks. The Second Amendment states: “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”
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Predatory Teen Marketing–Not Kid’s Stuff
The National Financial Educators Council (NFEC), a social impact company focused on financial wellness, estimates that U.S. advertisers spend approximately $2.9 billion a year for targeted ads to children. They project that the number will reach $21.1 billion by 2031.
In 2024, NFEC launched “Stop Advertising to Kids—Stop Predatory Advertising,” a campaign that urges lawmakers to pass legislation to stop marketing or advertising to kids under eight years old. According to NFEC, by the time a young person turns 21, they will have seen more than one million advertisements through television, YouTube, video-on-demand, social media, or gaming. READ MORE
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