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Attorney General Garland and the “Unobstrusive” Federal Monitoring of School Board Meetings

JonathanTurley

That scene came to mind when Attorney General Merrick Garland testified in Congress to assure members that he does not believe that parents protesting at school board meetings are domestic terrorists. He further pledged that he will not use such laws against parents objecting to critical race theory or other issues at these meetings.

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Grosskreutz v. Grosskreutz? Surviver from 2020 Kenosha Shooting Sues Kyle Rittenhouse

JonathanTurley

Gaige Grosskreutz who was shot in the arm by Kyle Rittenhouse during the Kenosha riots in 2020 is now suing him as well as Wisconsin police and officials. YouTube screengrab Just when you thought that the Kyle Rittenhouse case was over. it is back. Grosskreutz responded, “Correct.”

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Rittenhouse 2.0: Threats of New Litigation Fly in the Aftermath of Rittenhouse Verdict

JonathanTurley

Moreover, while some have called for reducing self-defense protections, the jury applied the law on the books. It is not allowed to simply ignore the law to seek its own criminal justice rules. The Rittenhouse jury faithfully applied the Wisconsin law and came to a well-founded verdict of acquittal.

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Rittenhouse Goes To Jury After Case Collapses in Court

JonathanTurley

In coverage of this trial, one would think that there were parallel trials occurring in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Any first-year law student knows that you cannot comment on the silence of a Mirandized defendant after an arrest under the Fifth Amendment – let alone ignore a court order. Wisconsin has a strong self-defense standard.

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Blockbuster watch: Affirmative action, same-sex weddings, and other big relists

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The case also presents the question whether a public-accommodation law that authorizes secular but not religious exemptions is generally applicable under Employment Division v. A number of challenges to such laws have reached the court over the years, but National Pork Producers Council v. Wisconsin v.

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Rittenhouse and the Perils of Weighing Public Opinion Over Evidence In Prosecutions

JonathanTurley

There also were glaring prosecution blunders, including a potentially case-ending violation of a court order — and long-standing constitutional law — in using Rittenhouse’s post-arrest silence against him. Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University.

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Top Prosecutor Drops Out of Whitmer Kidnapping Case

JonathanTurley

Attorney Jonathan Roth. An informant known as “Big Dan” was paid over $50,000 to get the conspiracy going, including paying for the defendants to travel to Wisconsin to “train.”. We recently discussed the collapse of the Whitmer kidnapping case after a jury acquitted defendants in Michigan. Shortly before the 2020 election, Gov.