JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Here is the column: This past week the American Civil Liberties Union honored the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the one-year anniversary of her death — by rewriting her famous defense of a woman’s right to abortion to remove offensive language. This already is being litigated in some lower courts.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 23, 2024

In a 2002 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against a provision of federal law that banned computer simulations and virtual pornography under the first amendment. The bill is presumptively unconstitutional in my view, but the Court made an unholy mess of this area in its rulings on obscenity.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

With 382 saleswomen and models, the court found that the group was too large. However, with the 25 salesmen, the court found that an action could be maintained. I was, therefore, gladdened by the Supreme Court ruling 8-1 in favor of free speech in the case, even if it meant a victory for odious Westboro Church.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 20, 2022

Ohio , the Supreme Court ruled in 1969 that even calling for violence is protected under the First Amendment unless there is a threat of “ imminent lawless action and is likely to incite or produce such action.”. That is legitimately concerning and chilling language. In Brandenburg v.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 19, 2021

Ohio , where the Supreme Court stressed that even “advocacy of the use of force or of law violation” is protected unless it is imminent. These civil lawsuits actually raise claims like the infliction of emotional distress that were directly and unequivocally rejected by the Supreme Court. Trump’s Jan.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 8, 2022

Inslee’s proposals raise the same questions that we discussed in relation to “stolen valor” laws. The Supreme Court struck down the Stolen Valor Act. Alvarez , the Court held 6-3 that it is unconstitutional to criminalize lies — in that case lying about receiving military decorations or medals. In Lamont v.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 17, 2022

It was due to the paucity of direct evidence of a crime that would hold up in court. LEXIS 1033 *, 2021 WL 633384, the court noted: Attempted murder requires a finding of specific intent to kill such that implied malice is insufficient to support a conviction for that offense. See People v. Gillespie, 2022 Cal. Indeed, in People v.

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