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Wednesday, April 23, 2025

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Constitutional clairvoyance

HARRISBURG, Penn. — A tarot card reader will proceed in Pennsylvania federal court with her constitutional challenge to a 164-year-old “fortune telling” statute, which criminalizes “pretend[ing] for gain or lucre” to predict the future. The tarot reader plausibly alleged the law violates her First and 14th Amendment rights after the Hanover police chief threatened her with prosecution.

Read the ruling here.

Read previous coverage of a similar municipal ban in Virginia here.

Categories / Briefs, First Amendment, Government, Religion

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