JonathanTurley

MARCH 6, 2023

The court ruled that “mere epithets” directed at a law enforcement officer are not exempt from First Amendment protections as fighting words. The Supreme Court has routinely ruled that the First Amendment protects profanity. In 1971, the Court ruled in Cohen v. California , 403 U.S. Hill , 482 U.S.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Nigrelli : where the court ruled that the private property exclusion violates the Second Amendment. The state might have been able to reinforce an important right of private business owners to exclude guns with a reasonable drafting of the law. The new decision comes from Judge John Sinatra (W.D.N.Y.) in Christian v.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 29, 2023

The decision comes after two other district courts ruled in favor of the law — sending this issue to the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and potentially the Supreme Court. Again, the Court’s ruling today is not a final resolution of the merits of the cases.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Trump was about to sign his travel ban and had sent the draft to the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel, an office ordinarily given considerable deference on the legality of policies and orders. Yet, the Supreme Court ruled that she was wrong and the OLC was right. The order was constitutional.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Yet the last hearing seemed to focus on a number of things that did not occur, from a draft tweet that was not sent to an executive order that was never signed. That speech appears protected by the First Amendment and existing Supreme Court precedent. Instead, much of the evidence cited what an official failed to do. At 4:17 p.m.,

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