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JonathanTurley
APRIL 18, 2022
When I was clerking in Louisiana after graduating law school, there was story of a rather notorious local judge asking counsel in a criminal case if he was ready to present the case of the defendant. That law has been treated as dormant given the 1973 decision in Roe v.
SCOTUSBlog
APRIL 9, 2021
Share President Joe Biden will issue an executive order to create a commission to study potential reforms to the Supreme Court, the White House announced on Friday. In its statement, the White House indicated that the commission will be a bipartisan one, made up of experts “on the Court and the Court reform debate.”
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JonathanTurley
OCTOBER 25, 2021
The problem is that the courts already recognize some religious exemption arguments. Those arguments are based on both the constitutional protection of religious values but also laws like Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, 42 U.S.C. There is a move in many states to refuse to allow such exemptions, but courts have pushed back.
JonathanTurley
OCTOBER 4, 2024
Walz proceeded to quote the line from a 1919 case in which Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes said you do not have the right to falsely yell fire in a crowded theater. interjected with the fire-in-a-theater question to say such censorship is needed and constitutional. It also is fundamentally wrong. Dan Goldman, D-N.Y.,
JonathanTurley
JULY 12, 2024
This movement is expanding and accelerating in its effort to curtail the right that Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis once called “indispensable” to our constitutional system. Starting in secondary schools, we have raised a generation of speech phobics who believe that opposing views are triggering and dangerous.
JonathanTurley
JANUARY 27, 2022
Below is my column in the Hill on the Supreme Court accepting two cases dealing with racial preferences in college admissions. Here is the column: Last year, I wrote about the Supreme Court’s “train whistle” docket with cases on abortion, guns, immigration, and other issues barreling down the track. Second, courts change.
JonathanTurley
SEPTEMBER 25, 2024
She was alluding to the 2021 Capitol riot, but she and her party are also attacking the foundations of our democracy: the Supreme Court and the freedom of speech. Harris, said they were open to the idea of packing the court by expanding the number of seats. said in 2021, explaining her support for a court-packing bill. “I
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