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Near Unanimous Supreme Court Rules Against Georgia Gwinnett College In Free Speech Victory

JonathanTurley

If Georgia Gwinnett College wanted to foster greater unity in its use of “free speech zones,” it succeeded in prompting a near unanimous Supreme Court in ruling against it in favor of free speech this week. Georgia Gwinnett College seemed to grasp for any claim to keep the students from speaking.

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

JonathanTurley

I have long maintained that the law is unconstitutional as a limitation of free speech and associational rights. This week, a court in Georgia became the latest to declare such laws unconstitutional. The opposition to these laws is not driven by the merits of the BDS movement or its opposition. ” O.C.G.A.

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Has “Jim Eagle” Landed in Delaware? State Supreme Court Blocks Universal Mail-in Balloting

JonathanTurley

We recently discussed a federal court upholding the Georgia election law as constitutional, rejecting challenges based on voter suppression by a group associated with Democratic Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams. Now it appears that universal mail-in voting is barred in the state.

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Produce over Politics: Whole Foods Fights for Right to Bar Political Advocacy in Workplace

JonathanTurley

San Francisco Regional Director Jill Coffman declared that the company is violating the rights of workers in 10 different states (Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Virginia, Maryland, Georgia, Washington, Indiana, and California). In her consolidated complaint against Whole Foods Market, Inc.,

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The lives they lived and the court they shaped: Remembering those we lost in 2022

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Curtis, who grew up in Georgia with cognitive and developmental disabilities, always hoped to leave these facilities and move back into her community. In court papers, she was identified only as “L.C.”. Four years later, her case reached the Supreme Court. Lois Curtis (July 14, 1967 – Nov. Walter Dellinger (May 15, 1941 – Feb.

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Fetterman Turns to Controversial Clinton Lawyer Marc Elias’ Firm to Strike Down Pennsylvania Election Provisions

JonathanTurley

Democratic Senate candidate John Fetterman and other Democrats have filed a federal lawsuit to strike down parts of Pennsylvania’s election law after the state Supreme Court ruled that mail-in ballots with incorrect dates or no dates should not be counted.Fetterman is challenging the state law on constitutional and federal statutes.

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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.