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United States Supreme Court Affirms Denial of Voting Rights For D.C.

JonathanTurley

Some of us have repeatedly said that the lawsuit would not succeed despite various law professors filing a brief supporting the underlying claims. Stories often present a distorted account of the constitutional debate in echoing the views of those advocating for judicial or legislative intervention to give D.C. statehood.

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Federal Court Rules In Favor Of Journalist Contesting Georgia’s Anti-BDS Law

JonathanTurley

In addition, we have faced these controversies on campuses, including on the George Washington University campus. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit on Feb. 12 ruled that an Arkansas anti-BDS law violates the First Amendment. In a 2-1 panel decision, the court also found that the was overly broad.

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Federal Judge Suggests Abortion May Be Protected Under 13th Amendment’s Ban on Involuntary Servitude

JonathanTurley

Lauren Handy and nine other anti-abortion activists were charged last year with conspiring to obstruct access to a Washington abortion clinic on Oct. They have asked for the dismissal of the indictment for lack of jurisdiction since the Court ruled in Dobbs that “the Constitution does not confer a right to abortion.”

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“A Death Squad Ruling”: The Press and Pundits Make Wild Claims in the Wake of the Court’s Immunity Decision

JonathanTurley

Below is my column in The Hill on the over-wrought reaction to the Supreme Court decision in Trump v. Commentators seemed to compete for the most alarmist accounts from court-sanctioned death squads to political assassinations to the death of democracy. United States. Jonathan Turley is the J.B. and Maurice C.

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So You Say You Want a Revolution? You Can Count Me Out

JonathanTurley

After major rulings on gun rights, abortion and climate change, Democratic leaders and pundits declared the court to be “illegitimate.” Madison in 1803, when the court ruled that it must be the final arbiter of what the law means. For example, after the court ruled in Worcester v.

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Will Biden’s Vaccine-Mandate “Work-Around” Work with the Supreme Court?

JonathanTurley

But it also is a generally-worded statute that can be interpreted broadly, and I expect a split in court decisions — and that only increases the likelihood of a Supreme Court review. Ironically, the Supreme Court warned against such sudden agency “finds” of regulatory authority.

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August 2021 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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Washington Supreme Court Said Climate Activist Was Entitled to Present Necessity Defense Based on Evidence that Legal Alternatives Were Not “Truly Reasonable”. State of Washington ex rel. Spokane County District Court , No. DECISIONS AND SETTLEMENTS. FEATURED CASE. Haskell v. 98719-0 (Wash. July 15, 2021).

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