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North Carolina Supreme Court Upholds Judicially Mandated Speech And Censorship On Blog

JonathanTurley

An opinion out of North Carolina is raising very serious concern over free speech this week. Yet the North Carolina Supreme Court has now upheld the sentence without any opinion. There is no debate that Eldridge was wrong to record the proceedings and that the court was within the law in holding him in contempt.

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Lengthier opinions and shrinking cohesion: Indications for the future of the Supreme Court

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Share When the Supreme Court ended the constitutional right to abortion in Dobbs v. The Dobbs majority opinion was the third-longest Supreme Court opinion since the beginning of the 1946-47 term, according to our analysis. Both trends could further diminish perceptions of a collegial and productive court.

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Destroying Democracy to Save It: Democrats Lose Another Effort to Disqualify a GOP Member

JonathanTurley

In the name of democracy, these Democrats have demanded that courts prevent voters from being able to vote for incumbent members. It has been rejected repeatedly in the courts. The latest such ruling comes from the Arizona Supreme Court which ruled that Democrats could not prevent Rep. The court case is Thomas Hansen v.

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Supreme Court Hears Trump v. Anderson: What To Expect

JonathanTurley

This morning I will be joining the live coverage of the Supreme Court of the arguments over the disqualification of former President Donald Trump from the Colorado ballot under the 14th Amendment. We can expect the justices to focus on the three main questions before the Court: 1. Is section 3 self-executing?

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North Carolina Board Asserts Right to Disqualify Madison Cawthorn as an “Insurrectionist”

JonathanTurley

The North Carolina elections board declared this week that it has the power to bar Rep. Ironically, it was Justice Edwin Reade of the North Carolina Supreme Court who later explained , “[t]he idea [was] that one who had taken an oath to support the Constitution and violated it, ought to be excluded from taking it again.”

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Destroying a Democracy to Save it: Democrats Call for the Disqualification of Dozens of Republican Members

JonathanTurley

demanded the disqualification of the 120 House Republicans — including House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) — for simply signing a “Friend of the Court brief” (or amicus brief ) in support of an election challenge from Texas. Even support for court filings is now being declared an act of rebellion. Bill Pascrell (D-N.J.)

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“Everybody’s Mistakes Except My Own”: Trump Final Pardon List Offers A Telling Reflection On His Legacy

JonathanTurley

There is now no impediment to a charge for incitement, a much-touted possible charge that some of us believe would fail ultimately in the courts on either the trial or appellate levels. Robert Cannon “Robin” Hayes who served as Chairman of the North Carolina Republican Party and Chair of the National Council of Republican Party Chairs.