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“Star Chamber Comeback”: Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel Loses Flint Water Cases in Spectacular Fashion

JonathanTurley

Attorney General Dana Nessel has lost the Flint case in spectacular fashion this week. In an unanimous 6-0 ruling, the Michigan Supreme Court held that her office committed a fatal and inexplicable error in prosecuting nine officials for the Flint water crisis, including former Gov. juror) to charge them.”

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Could The Arrest of FBI Agent Undermine The Whitmer Kidnapping Case?

JonathanTurley

However, Trask was also key to the arrest of men in the alleged plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. As a criminal defense attorney, I have long been a critic of the degree to which the FBI often pushes defendants to take actions to trigger criminal charges. Trask’s affidavit was used to arrest the men in the Michigan case.

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Are You in an Anti-Free Speech State? We Now Have The Definitive List

JonathanTurley

However, 23 Democrat-led states joined this ignoble effort in signing on to the brief of California Attorney General Rob Bonta. California has long sought to impose speech limits on doctors , businesses , and citizens to silence opposing viewpoints. Biden–New York et al.

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Crimson Tide: A New Study Shows the Continued Decline of Free Speech on Campuses

JonathanTurley

Conversely, the top performers this year are, notably, all public universities — Michigan Technological University, Auburn University, the University of New Hampshire, Oregon State University, and Florida State University. If anyone doubts their existence, they still may be able to spot Mansfield, who is retired, moving around campus.

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Michigan Judge Declares She Will Preside Over Planned Parenthood Case Despite Her Prior Representation and Donations

JonathanTurley

When I was clerking in Louisiana after graduating law school, there was story of a rather notorious local judge asking counsel in a criminal case if he was ready to present the case of the defendant. That law has been treated as dormant given the 1973 decision in Roe v. On the other side is Attorney General Dana Nessel (D-Mich.),

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Federal Court Upholds Ban on “Let’s Go, Brandon” Shirts in High School

JonathanTurley

”) in Michigan who was ordered to remove this sweater with the popular phrase “Let’s Go, Brandon.” District Judge Paul Maloney in the Western District of Michigan. We previously discussed the case of a student (known as “D.A.”) ” We now have a ruling from U.S. Tri County Area Schools.

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Biden to create bipartisan commission on Supreme Court reform

SCOTUSBlog

The co-chairs of the commission, which will complete its report within 180 days of its first public meeting, are Bob Bauer, an NYU law professor who served as White House counsel to President Barack Obama, and Cristina Rodríguez, a Yale Law School professor who served as a deputy assistant attorney general during the Obama administration.