JonathanTurley

MAY 3, 2023

We recently discussed a federal judge enjoining the new Illinois law banning “assault weapons.” ” Now a gun shop in Naperville, Illinois has made it to the Supreme Court in seeking injunctive relief and Justice Amy Coney Barrett has given the proponents of the law until Monday to respond to the request.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 29, 2022

As one court noted, “‘rhetorical hyperbole,’ ‘vigorous epithet[s],’ ‘lusty and imaginative expressions[s] of. contempt,’ and language used ‘in a loose, figurative sense’ have all been accorded constitutional protection.” That was the case with the litigation over the false claims made against former Rep. Guillard.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 4, 2023

The Times Higher Education has prompted a debate in the teaching academy over a call for “Black bereavement leave” by Angel Jones , a professor is a visiting assistant professor teaching educational leadership courses at Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville. That could trigger a challenge by non-Black faculty.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 6, 2021

Below is my column in The Hill on the Supreme Court’s rejection of the case of a former West Point cadet who was barred from suing over the handling of her alleged rape. The case would have allowed a reconsideration of the Feres Doctrine, one of the most damaging and pernicious doctrines ever created by the Supreme Court.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 21, 2023

A number critics have cited a New Mexico case where such a disqualification of a local politician named Couy Griffen was approved by a court and then upheld by the New Mexico Supreme Court. Yet, it is untrue that “the New Mexico Supreme Court upheld the decision to disqualify” and established counter precedent on the issue.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 8, 2022

It was always doubtful that a law school would take the unprecedented step of barring a sitting Supreme Court justice. The problem is that most targets of these campaigns have neither the status nor the day job of a Supreme Court justice. Here is the column: Clarence Thomas last week became cancel culture’s latest target.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 29, 2023

District Judge Stephen McGlynn has granted a preliminary injunction of Illinois’ ban on assault weapons and large capacity magazines. 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.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 28, 2021

We recently discussed the controversy at Rutgers Law School over the reading of the “n-word” from a state supreme court opinion. In 2018, the Supreme Court handed down Janus v. American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, Council 31 , No. 16-1466, 585 U.S. That decision overturned Abood v.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 7, 2022

.” As I stated at the time, there is no basis for termination or suspension of constitutional rules in such a case. Moreover, the misconduct of one company would never be accepted by a court as grounds for retroactively reevaluating a presidential election two years later. ” The implications of such a power are chilling.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 19, 2022

The court’s curious handling of the case backfired. That issue would have to be decided by the Supreme Court however given the prior ruling in New York Times v. Rakoff was previously reversed by the federal court of appeals for dismissing the action. Here is the column: In a trial in New York, federal judge Jed S.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Now, a filing in the Supreme Court supporting censorship efforts by the Biden Administration has supplied a handy list of the anti-free speech states for citizens. Not surprisingly, the state of California is leading the effort to get the Supreme Court to reverse a decision enjoining the government from censorship efforts.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 11, 2022

However, these Democrats insist that a unilateral decision from Ferriero declaring it ratified would mean it is ratified … at least until some courts say otherwise. Democratic members and advocacy groups have pushed to pack the Supreme Court with an instant liberal majority. In 1981, a federal district court ruled in Idaho v.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 12, 2022

In a series of tweets this week, Professor Heidi Li Feldman has denounced “lawless” and “actively rogue” Supreme Court justices and professors who disagree with her views on the Constitution. She has called for “genuine” law professors not to fall “into complicity with lawlessness” in teaching such subjects. HeidiLiFeldman.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

There are good-faith arguments that these bans contradict Supreme Court cases on the scope and meaning of the Second Amendment. It is certainly an open question but gun-rights advocates are challenging these laws as without constitutional or historical foundation. In New York State Rifle &Pistol Association, Inc.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 8, 2023

While the courts have read various exceptions into that language, it was a recognition that censorship and speech criminalization have always been an impulse of those in power. Democratic leaders have shown that tendency in recent years with an expanding anti-free speech agenda, but no one more embodies this danger than Illinois Gov.

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MAY 24, 2021

Asserting a strict interpretation of the 1788 Constitution and relying on relevant commentary and precedent since then, two constitutional law professors argue that in the unlikely event of a prosecution?and Supreme Court, and the intersection of law and technology. and conviction?Trump

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 26, 2022

When Dobbs was accepts, I wrote that for thirty years as a television and print legal analyst I have annually downplayed claims of commentators that a given case before the Court was a true threat to Roe. ” In the end, Chief Justice John Roberts cut a bit of a lonely figure in the mix of the court on the issue.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 13, 2023

One thing, however, we agree upon: it is time for the federal courts to rule on this theory to bring clarity to the election. That may now occur in West Virginia where Attorney General Patrick Morrisey wants a federal court to throw out a lawsuit attempting to remove Donald Trump from the ballot in the state. Castro received a J.D.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 7, 2021

As a compromise, the commission was formed and consisted of 15 members : five Supreme Court justices and five members from each chamber of Congress. However, in a move that seemed calculated to secure his vote for Tilden, the Illinois legislature then moved to appoint the independent, Justice David Davis , to the Senate.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

.” (Elias was previously accused of lying to conceal the Clinton campaign’s funding of the Steele dossier, has sought to reverse election results, and has been sanctioned by the courts). While the Supreme Court said in 2019 that political gerrymandering is constitutional in Rucho v.

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