JonathanTurley

JULY 13, 2022

A shorter, edited version of this column ran in the New York Post ). There is a Fox News report that it was able to confirm an abortion involving a ten-year-old girl in Indiana but could not confirm the other claims. ” The President used the story to attack the Supreme Court and ask “What century are they in?”

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 8, 2023

That portrayal of Chansley would have been more difficult to maintain if the Court was allowed to see images of Chansley casually walking through a door of the Capitol with hundreds of other protesters and then being escorted by officers through the Capitol. It certainly would have been material to the court in sentencing the conduct.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Florida Southern District Court. The Duke of York is arguing that Giuffre was too old at the time of the alleged sexual acts to use the New York Child Victims Act (CVA) to “revive” her claims now. ” That does create a credible threshold defense and a tough question for the court.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 9, 2023

Many migrants are released soon after capture, including some without a hearing date or court dates that are years in the future. Moreover, it is not clear how transporting migrants who entered the country illegally to another state is a violation of law. The reason is that these claims are made for cable news, not courts of law.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 25, 2021

Civil and statutory claims can be curtailed by constitutional limitations. Supreme Court ruled against a provision of federal law that banned computer simulations and virtual pornography under the first amendment. In New York Times v. This is such a case in my view. In 2002, the U.S. In Ashcroft v.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 3, 2023

The testimony put the controversial demands of New York Attorney General James into sharp relief. Those words from Alice in Wonderland seem the only apt description of the case unfolding in the New York courtroom of Justice Arthur F. That may be a common practice in New York real estate, but it is not a good practice.

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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. Indeed, President Biden has made dubious constitutional and historical claims about the Second Amendment and AR-15s.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 24, 2024

Here is the column: In 1976, Saul Steinburg’s hilarious “View of the World from 9th Avenue” was published on the cover of the New Yorker. The map showed Manhattan occupying most of the known world with wilderness on the other side of the Hudson River between New York and San Francisco. In Gonzalez v.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Below is my column in the New York Post on the second release of the “Twitter Files.” ” The new material exposes the company’s system of censorship and suppression of disfavored views. The documents shatter prior statements of Twitter, including statements made to Congress.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 30, 2023

Not only are defendants scattering, but some are seeking to go to federal court where the trial would not likely be televised, as the Georgia prosecutors reportedly want. Regardless of the ruling of the court, it is likely to be appealed. However, Willis is trying to hold together a case to try them en masse and in state court.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 7, 2020

As I discussed, courts have been applying greater scrutiny to these pandemic orders. The first such shift came predictably with challenges based on the contravention of constitutional rights, particularly the free exercise of religion under the First Amendment. The initial deference afforded to pandemic order tends to wane with time.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 13, 2021

The standard for defamation for public figures and officials in the United States is the product of a decision decades ago in New York Times v. The Supreme Court ruled that tort law could not be used to overcome First Amendment protections for free speech or the free press. Obviously, truth remains a defense.

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JANUARY 8, 2022

Such a criminal law would be ripe for abuse and would create a chilling effect that would be positively glacial. We have seen other Democratic leaders use the criminal process in similarly reckless fashions. This country has a long history of election fraud from Tammany Hall in New York to the Daley machine in Chicago.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 30, 2023

The defense could come at a cost at trial, but it is a calculated risk for the court of public opinion. The odds are against Trump on ultimately prevailing with that argument in the courts. The bravado defense is likely to play better with the public than a court. Trump repeated that defense this week.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 29, 2023

At the same time, Judge Arthur Engoron has repeatedly fined Trump for his public statements about the New York fraud case. ” There is widespread support for barring attacks on court staff and Trump did attack the Court’s clerk in a prior posting. I am going to protect my staff.”

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Even in his freshman year, Democratic New York Rep. There are so many criminal laws that do criminalize speech, and so the notion that the president of the United States somehow has a First Amendment right to be protected by the government for his speech doesn’t make any sense. .” In Snyder v.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 25, 2024

The New York courts have upheld the order. There has been much discussion of the gag order imposed on Trump by Justice Juan Merchan who is controlling not only the travel but the speech of the leading presidential candidate from his small Manhattan courtroom.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

The Texas Supreme Court has handed down a major ruling in defense of free speech this week. What was particularly chilling is that one appellate court agreed with the absurd argument that characterizing abortion as murder is an actionable basis for defamation as opposed to protected opinion. It did so in the Dobbs decision in 2022 ).

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 15, 2023

Like the New York indictment, a Georgia indictment would not be subject to a presidential pardon. However, I also said that the Trump campaign had failed to supply such evidence in critical court filings. That does not mean that there may not be evidence of knowing fraud or criminal wrongdoing.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 5, 2021

New York prosecutor Carey Dunne’s words were repeated like a mantra after this week’s indictment of the Trump Organization and its financial chief, Allen Weisselberg. and New York Attorney General Letitia James paraded triumphantly in front of hundreds of cameras with a handcuffed Weisselberg in their wake.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 17, 2023

However, the odds of Trump going to prison could depend more on the court of public opinion than on the court of law. None of the presidential candidates could pardon Trump for state charges in New York or, potentially, in Georgia.) Trump has pledged a comprehensive legal attack on his federal indictment.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 9, 2023

Notably, the New York Times has reported that Biden has had his own Thomas Becket moments in telling aides that he wanted Trump indicted and criticizing the Attorney General Merrick Garland for the delay. His eviction-ban order was quickly found unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 28, 2020

My objection was not to his affiliations but to his history, which included extreme interpretations that were ultimately rejected by courts. Weissmann was responsible for the overextension of an obstruction provision in a jury instruction that led the Supreme Court to reverse the conviction in the Arthur Andersen case in 2005.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 3, 2023

Below is my column on how the upcoming election could play out with three different criminal cases in New York, Georgia, and Washington, D.C. This morning we are reading new leaks from the Justice Department’s grand jury investigation. The New York indictment will face considerable challenges.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 22, 2021

There is no greater example than Andrea Dick, a Trump supporter who has adorned her yard in Roselle, Park New Jersey with profane attacks on President Joe Biden. Bundy of Roselle Park Municipal Court that she must remove the offending signs. ” In 1971, the Supreme Court handed down Cohen v.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Below is a longer version of my column in the New York Post on the gag order motion docketed Friday night in Washington, D.C. No one seriously questions the ability of courts to limit the release of sealed material or to bar threatening comments directed at jurors, witnesses, or court staff. by Special Counsel Jack Smith.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 25, 2024

Below is my column in the New York Post on the vicious attacks being directed at Judge Aileen Cannon as she addresses pre-trial motions in the Florida prosecution of former president Donald Trump. Thus far, they have been unsuccessful, but none have gone to the Supreme Court. That’s been addressed in multiple courts.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 1, 2024

Below is a slightly expanded version of my column in the New York Post on the verdict in the Trump trial. The Manhattan case, in my view, was a raw political use of the criminal justice system.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 25, 2021

The media from the New York Times to the Los Angeles Times have run editorials encouraging aggressive moves to secure control of the Senate, including the ending of the filibuster. It will be a fun bit of trivia for constitutional law geeks, but it was also telling.

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