JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Several candidates for the 2020 presidential nomination, including Ms. The past few months have seen an explosion of books and articles laying out a new vision of “democracy” unconstrained by constitutional limits on majority power. The Nation’s Elie Mystal calls the Constitution “trash” and urges the abolition of the U.S.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 9, 2024

As Democrats ramp up their efforts for the 2024 election, some are dangling an old enticement from 2020: if we win, we can pack the Court. And to do so, they ought to draw on the robust and inventive debate that is brewing among scholars in law schools, think tanks, and advocacy organizations over how to fix the Court.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 3, 2023

Six out of ten students in a 2020 survey said offensive jokes can constitute hate speech. Jonathan Turley, an attorney, constitutional law scholar and legal analyst, is the Shapiro Chair for Public Interest Law at The George Washington University Law School.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Recently, the House Oversight Committee revealed that just after Joe Biden announced his 2020 presidential candidacy, Hunter Biden received a $250,000 loan from a Chinese businessman using the address of his father’s Delaware home.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 31, 2022

From legendary lawyers to lesser-known activists, journalists, and plaintiffs, the following individuals who died in 2022 all shaped the court and the law in their own ways. Read past years’ remembrances: 2021 , 2020. In 1973, Beckwith was a recent graduate of law school and was working as a political reporter for TIME magazine.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 2, 2020

This afternoon I have the pleasure of joining a distinguished panel to speak on the Supreme Court at the University of Southern California’s Gould School of Law. The event is part of the LACBA Business Law Section 2020 Virtual Institute for Corporate Counsel and will also include Michael J.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 25, 2023

He kept up that self-destructive lifestyle , he said, until his father’s 2020 presidential campaign began. Jonathan Turley, an attorney, constitutional law scholar and legal analyst, is the Shapiro Chair for Public Interest Law at The George Washington University Law School.

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JUNE 25, 2024

In 2020, Judge Cannon was confirmed in a bipartisan vote, with the support of liberals such as Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) These critics often stress that she is an appointee of Trump, even though many Trump appointees have ruled against the former president on 2020 election issues. and Dianne Feinstein (D-Cal.).

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JonathanTurley

MAY 17, 2023

Indeed, the same pattern and figures reemerged in 2020, when another false narrative was created to dismiss the Hunter Biden laptop scandal. ” And the media again pushed that version before the 2020 election — only to admit, two years later, that the laptop was authentic all along.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

It is the “why not” approach to criminal and constitutional law. Graham, for example, called Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger after the November 2020 election to ask about absentee ballots and whether groups of ballots could be rejected. That call was not ultimately deemed worthy of an indictment.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 30, 2023

Below is my column in The Messenger on the early struggle of Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis to preserve her strategy of holding a mass 19-person trial over the 2020 election case involving former president Donald Trump. Something has to give in this schedule — not in the interest of Trump, but in the interest of justice.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 9, 2023

Here is the column: After last week’s indictment of former President Donald Trump relating to the 2020 election, CNN declared that the charges were “personal” for President Joe Biden, who previously said Trump’s words sounded like “sedition.” Indeed, it could be used as a basis for an impeachment inquiry.

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Above The Law

MAY 5, 2025

For our inaugural Deep Dive, Im posting an excerpt from an exchange with Ben Varadi who teaches Professional Responsibility at Vermont Law School. Mr. Dewald’s website additionally sells courses in what he describes on LinkedIn as a “law school,” including a “Juris Doctor Track.” 2025 May 7.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

When Berkeley Law School Dean and constitutional scholar Erwin Chemerinsky taught Criminal Procedure in the Fall of 2019, he became frustrated when he realized many of the cases that were the subject of his lectures ended with the police winning and the rights of suspects losing. THE CRIME REPORT: Does that frustrate you?

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

For example, a new poll out of Marquette University Law School showed 2-1 support for Roe , but a greater number of respondents (37 percent) supported the 15-week limit in Dobbs than opposed it (32 percent). Today, the country remains deeply divided. This term the court was presented with two pre-viability challenges.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 30, 2024

This hyperbolic claim ignores the many safeguards in our constitutional system, the very safeguards that led to the certification of Biden’s victory in 2020. Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at the George Washington University Law School and author of “ The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage.”

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 22, 2023

I was critical of Trump’s speech to a mob of supporters that day, and I rejected his legal claims to stop the certification of the 2020 presidential election in Congress. ” Sometimes that cannot be avoided, but in this case the Colorado Supreme Court steered off the constitutional map. However, it was not an insurrection.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

that Trump could “present a serious and substantial danger of prejudicing” his 2020 federal election interference case. Smith compared Trump’s comments on the trial to the “disinformation” spread by Trump after the 2020 election — the subject of the indictment. Smith told District Judge Tanya Chutkan in Washington, D.C.,

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 15, 2023

The long-anticipated indictment by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is expected in the coming days and will focus on alleged election tampering and related offenses in the 2020 presidential election. They often (as they did in 2020) resist demands for access to evidence. However, it will be anything but costless.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 20, 2023

Trump lost the 2020 presidential vote in the District of Columbia, receiving a mere 5.4% That speech is entirely protected under the First Amendment and governing case law, including Brandenburg v. In the past, congressional Democrats used the very same law to challenge presidential election certifications with little or no evidence.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 19, 2025

Archivist, Colleen Shogan recently explained that neither her office nor the White House have the authority to publish the amendment unilaterally or waive the deadline for ratification: In 2020 and again in 2022, the Office of Legal Counsel of the U.S. According to Gallup, the U.S.

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The Estrin Report

MARCH 16, 2025

These appointments are already influencing rulings on key areas, including administrative law, corporate litigation, and constitutional law. Trump has expanded attacks to include law schools and firms that support diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives. The Real Danger: Fear.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Even during the 2020 campaign, many suspected that the staff was hiding Biden’s mental struggles. Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at the George Washington University Law School. Of course, it is hard for the public to know the degree of Biden’s decline. Jonathan Turley is the J.B. and Maurice C.

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