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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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Race and College Admissions: The Supreme Court’s Train Whistle Docket Just Got a Lot Louder

JonathanTurley

The court has spent decades issuing often conflicting and vague 5-4 rulings on the use of race in admissions. Bollinger , the Court divided 5-4 on upholding admissions criteria used to achieve “diversity” in a class at Michigan Law School. In 2003 in Grutter v. For critics, that is an understatement.

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Greater than Holmes? The life and legacy of John Marshall Harlan

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Washington Bee (Oct. History has vindicated John Marshall Harlan, who dissented in some of the Supreme Court’s worst decisions concerning race and limiting the scope of federal power. He is also a graduate of Columbia Law School. 21, 1911) (an African American newspaper). The back story.

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Unpacking by Packing the Court? The Left has a New Orwellian Mantra

JonathanTurley

Liberals are again stating that the Supreme Court is not fundamentally “broken” because a majority of justices do not share their views on legal questions. In the name of fighting ideological bias, they demand packing the Court with reliable ideological allies from the left.

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Insurrection-Lite: The Supreme Court Downsizes the “Insurrection” to Largely Trespassing

JonathanTurley

Below is my column on the Supreme Court decision on Friday in Fischer v. Special Counsel Jack Smith brought four charges in Washington, D.C.: Biden has also become the most anti-free speech president since John Adams, including the establishment of a massive censorship system described by one court as “Orwellian.”

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Yielding to Temptation: Colorado’s Supreme Court Blocks Democracy to Bar Trump on the 2024 Ballot

JonathanTurley

Below is my column in The Messenger of the Colorado Supreme Court decision disqualifying former President Donald Trump from the 2024 election. ” Sometimes that cannot be avoided, but in this case the Colorado Supreme Court steered off the constitutional map. In California, Lieutenant Gov.

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