JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Lucero of the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals. I will be joined by two distinguished academics: Professor Elizabeth Sepper, University of Texas at Austin School of Law and Professor John Yoo, University of California Berkeley School of Law. The panel will be moderated by Senior Circuit Judge Carlos F. In Kennedy v.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 6, 2022

The Biden Administration fought to block any judicial review by challenging the standing of Texas to bring the action. In addition, the court noted that: “Texas contends that the rescission of DACA would cause some recipients to leave, thereby reducing the financial burdens on the State. Here is the opinion: Texas v.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

JULY 12, 2023

Texas , 599 U.S. _ (2023), the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Texas and Louisiana lacked standing to challenge a Biden Administration immigration enforcement policy. The Constitution affords federal courts considerable power, but it does not establish ‘government by lawsuit,’” Gorsuch wrote. 1231(a)(2) ). “The

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

For example, Texas recently declared that it was acting unilaterally under Article I, Section 10, Clause 3 of the Constitution. No state faces a greater danger than Texas. There is a difference between the colloquial and constitutional meaning of such terms. They have often found the courts closed to them.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 2, 2023

We recently discussed a federal court ruling that the Texas law requiring age verification and warning for porn sites was unconstitutional. Now, Judge Timothy Brooks in Arkansas has found that another state law imposing age verification requirements for social media violates the First Amendment.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 3, 2021

While the media and politicians were decrying the recent Texas abortion law and misrepresenting the Court’s order in that case , the real and immediate threat to Roe v. City of Chicago , the court ruled that this right applied against the states. Last year, the Court ruled 5-4 in Espinoza v.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 1, 2024

Texas won a big victory in the United States Court of Appeals in the long struggle over floating buoy barriers in the Rio Grande River to help block unlawful migration. Abbott , the court ruled 11-7 in an en banc decision against the Biden Administration over the barrier. The impact on Texas is devastating.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Below is my column in the Hill on the call by the Biden White House and many in the media to pass the Women’s Health Protection Act (WHPA) in light of the recent decision of the Supreme Court not to enjoin the new abortion law in Texas. Sotomayor encouraged advocates not to wait for any decision of the Court.

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JULY 1, 2024

The US Supreme Court on Monday vacated and remanded lower court rulings regarding the constitutionality of statutes enacted by Florida and Texas to regulate large social media companies’ content moderation practices. Key to the court’s ruling in Moody v. Neither court performed that necessary inquiry.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 3, 2022

Below is my column in The Hill on the calls for gun bans after the massacre in Uvalde, Texas. The massacre has already been used as the basis for calls to end the filibuster, pack the court, limits on gun ownership, and outright bans. The rhetoric is again outstripping the reality of constitutional and practical limits for gun control.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 17, 2021

In California, Newsom pledged to re-purpose the Texas “heartbeat law” to limit gun rights. Newsom tapped into the liberal rage after the Supreme Court refused to enjoin the Texas law that allows people to sue anyone who “aids or abets” an abortion performed after about six weeks.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 3, 2022

Wade and return the area to the states, it is more likely that the court will increase the authority of the states while recognizing constitutional protections for such reproductive rights. After Dobbs was accepted, advocates sought to enjoin a Texas law that banned abortion after just six weeks.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 15, 2022

.” Ironically, it was the only part of the president’s remarks that is consistent with what the court actually said in its decision in Dobbs v. Wade, the court ruled that millions of citizens, not nine justices, must now decide the question of abortion. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. In overturning Roe v.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 24, 2021

So a ruling by a federal district court in Texas this week was particularly jarring: Judge Reed O’Connor found that the Biden administration engaged in systemic gender and race discrimination to implement COVID-19 relief for American restaurants.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 9, 2020

I was therefore gladdened by the Supreme Court ruling 8-1 in favor of the free speech in the case, even if it meant a victory for odious Westboro Church. The Supreme Court ruled that tort law could not be used to overcome First Amendment protections for free speech or the free press. Johnson, 491 U.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 9, 2022

Below is my column in the Hill on the effort to declare an “invasion” along the Texas border to allow the state to take greater control along the border to stem the flow of illegal immigrants. This week, Texas Gov. Indeed, in this month’s ruling in Biden v. United States. Here is the column: “We’re being invaded.”

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 24, 2024

It looked very different as the Supreme Court, with a strong conservative majority, defended the rights of defendants and upheld core principles that are being systematically gutted in New York. However, the court denied him the right to have a jury rule on the key issue of whether these prior offenses occurred on different occasions.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 10, 2024

He is also accused of implementing Biden policy changes that removed barriers to migrants, including rescinding the “Stay in Mexico” rule. Some of us have also questioned his integrity , particularly in controversies like the false claims that border agents whipped migrants in Texas.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 9, 2022

Despite the pledge to return to a respect for the “rule of law,” Biden openly suggested that they could use the litigation to get as much money out the door as possible before being barred by the courts. Nothing could be more damaging to the litigation and the federal courts quickly rejected the CDC and Tribe arguments.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

The oral argument is scheduled for December 1st, the same week that the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit will hear an expedited appeal over the even more stringent Texas abortion law. This term the court was presented with two pre-viability challenges.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

The Administration lost a number of unilateral moves by Biden on the basis of the Administrative Procedures Act (APA), a law requiring the government to consider objections and countervailing facts before making final decisions. It should sound familiar.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 19, 2021

The only certainly is a pledge to pay the salaries of any teacher suspended or fired for violating state laws on such mandates. Biden’s pledge was made after the Texas Supreme Court upheld one of the most cited anti-mask mandates. The Texas order for the arrest of the legislators has been upheld by the Texas Supreme Court.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 15, 2021

Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas delivered a blow to the Biden Administration on Friday by ordering the reinstatement of the Trump-era Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP) program, also known as the “Remain-in-Mexico” policy. 337; Texas, 809 F.3d

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

AUGUST 4, 2021

Washington Supreme Court Said Climate Activist Was Entitled to Present Necessity Defense Based on Evidence that Legal Alternatives Were Not “Truly Reasonable”. The plaintiffs cited three reasons that the case was not moot: (1) President Biden’s revocation of the presidential permit could be vacated in the pending Texas v. Biden , No.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 5, 2021

Sotomayor’s nose for judicial politics was also less sensitive when she recently called upon students to campaign against abortion laws — a major departure from the court’s apolitical traditions. Texas , which overturned prior precedent allowing the criminalization of homosexual relations. Ferguson was overturned in Brown v.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 8, 2025

In a 5-4 ruling, the Supreme Court delivered a victory to the Trump Administration on the deportations under the 1798 Alien Enemies Act of suspected gang members of Tren de Aragua. The Court ruled that U.S. Rather, as some of us previously argued, the Court ruled that this is a habeas case that should be heard in Texas.

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