JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Bruen, the first major gun rights case before the Supreme Court in ten years. Justices have been openly discussing a case to push back on lower courts that have been chipping away at its Second Amendment jurisprudence. The court will soon take up New York State Rifle & Pistol Association Inc. Penal Law § 400.00(2)(f)

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

On Wednesday, the Supreme Court will take up arguably the oldest and most controversial right in our history. Bruen is the first major gun rights case in over ten years to come before the Supreme Court and it has the makings of a major gun rights victory in the making. Penal Law § 400.00(2)(f) New York State Rifle Association v.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 12, 2021

In a major but likely controversial victory for free speech, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit overturned the conviction of a retired Air Force Colonel for using a racial epithet at the shoe store on the Marine base at Quantico in Virginia. Bartow was charged under Virginia Code § 18.2-416, Terminiello v.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 14, 2022

.'” Captain Jack Sparrow’s clarification in the movie Pirates of the Caribbean could prove useful when actor Johnny Depp takes the stand in his defamation case in Fairfax, Virginia against his former wife, Amber Heard. ” He is now trying his hand with a Virginia jury. In New York Times v.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 12, 2021

I recently discussed the Supreme Court’s affirmance of a decision rejecting constitutional arguments that the District of Columbia is entitled to a vote in Congress. I have repeatedly testified and written on the constitutional barriers to such a vote absent statehood. As a lawyer who worked with counsel for D.C.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 12, 2021

The Supreme Court has itself highlighted that rationale in its discussions of the history and purpose of the Amendment. Patrick Henry and George Mason really teamed up like tag team taking on the Federalists and the Constitution. What they argued, was that the Constitution put control of the militia under federal control.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 1, 2024

The court has already imposed a fine, but according to some reports, jail time is possible. 46 (1988), the Supreme Court reversed a lower court’s judgment for intentional infliction of emotional distress against Hustler for a parody of Jerry Falwell, the founder of the Moral Majority and Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 14, 2021

Ask any constitutional law student to name the most iconic Supreme Court decision, and they’ll probably answer Marbury v. Those two landmark rulings stand as the most celebrated decisions the court has ever issued. Maryland : “[W]e must never forget that it is a constitution we are expounding.” Board of Education.

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MAY 27, 2024

But the Convention came together to declare that equal rights, including rights for women and LGBTQ+ people, should be a fundamental value of American constitutional law. In my second dispatch from this Convention, I spoke with the amendment’s sponsor, Crispin South, a Choctaw law student at ASU and a delegate representing Oklahoma.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Share On Tuesday, the court heard argument in Jones v. Two decades into his prison term, the Supreme Court decided in Rehaif v. 2255 , which funneled challenges to federal convictions and sentences into a “motion to vacate” before the sentencing court. 922(g) and sentenced to more than 27 years’ incarceration.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Supreme Court recently granted certiorari in Counterman v. 723 (2015), but ultimately decided the case before reaching the constitutional issue. The Colorado Court of Appeals affirmed the conviction. The court acknowledged that “[s]ocial media magnify the potential for a speaker’s innocent words to be misunderstood.”

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 13, 2022

San Francisco Regional Director Jill Coffman declared that the company is violating the rights of workers in 10 different states (Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Virginia, Maryland, Georgia, Washington, Indiana, and California). The Supreme Court has pushed back on federal agencies trying to regulate speech.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The United States Supreme Court affirmed the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia (and the later denial of a motion for consideration ) in rejecting the much touted lawsuit to give residents a vote in Congress. I have written about D.C. residents a vote.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 19, 2021

Originally, the district was designed to be a diamond-shaped “federal city” composed of land ceded equally from Maryland and Virginia. They would instantly become part of a larger state with greater resources and greater success in areas ranging from education to courts to infrastructure.

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LexForti

JULY 26, 2021

This research paper also focuses on the directions of the Supreme Court in Shyam Narayan Chouksey v. Enunciating the relationship between Parts III, IV and IV-A the court has observed in Naveen Jindal v/s UOI. However, the Court did note that this right can be subject to certain reasonable statutory restrictions.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

JULY 25, 2023

Supreme Court held that the First Amendment prohibits Colorado from forcing a website designer to create expressive designs speaking messages with which the designer disagrees. The law defines “public accommodation” broadly to include almost every public-facing business in the State. The Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

We recently discussed controversies on r ace criteria from college admissions cases pending before the Supreme Court to the threshold criteria used by President Joe Biden for his Supreme Court nominee. Now, a federal district court in Northern Virginia has handed down a major decision in Coalition for TJ v.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 3, 2021

The Supreme Court has also recognized a right to movement in cases like In Paul v. Virginia , 75 U.S. However, the argument that appearing in public is not a right but a privilege ignores how a myriad of related rights involve public interaction.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 28, 2021

Biden just unveiled another proposal with heavy public opposition: a commission that would allow court-packing or other structural changes on the Court to blunt the conservative majority. That is heavy opposition for such a statehood change. That reduction of the federal enclave has been incorporated in some statehood proposals.

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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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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

MAY 16, 2022

Virginia , was based on different constitutional grounds and would not be negated by this opinion. While the court did discuss the due process right to marriage, it was primarily handed down on equal protection grounds due to the inherent racial classification. The claim is even less credible legally than it is politically.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

District Court for the Western District of Texas ruled that a Texas law requiring age-verification and warning labels about the alleged dangers of porn contravenes the First Amendment. The court found that “the statute is not narrowly tailored and chills the speech of Plaintiffs and adults who wish to access sexual materials. [it]

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

The keynote address will cover “ Emerging Cases and Controversies Before the Roberts Supreme Court.” ” It is a particular privilege to address the conference on Constitution Day. We are experiencing a crisis of faith in our Constitution, including attacks on the Court and individual justices.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 7, 2021

Joe Manchin , President Biden may be thinking of offering his voracious dog, Major, to the West Virginia Democrat. For example, many senators want to add as many as four new Supreme Court justices to give liberals an instant, controlling majority on the court. When it comes to Sen. Official White House Photo/Adam Schultz).

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

The bizarre story of Susanna Gibson and her running as a candidate for the House of Delegates has occupied much of the conversations around Virginia, where I live. Virginia State Sen. Indeed, even the service provider itself is protected under the law. The tips, she reportedly pledged, would go to a “good cause.”

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 29, 2023

He has been removed from his position, though the now unhappy couple could now challenge the action in the courts. It is reminiscent of the recent controversy involving Virginia Democratic candidate Susanna Gibson who was shown to have engaged in sex acts on the Internet with her husband.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 25, 2025

Share The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Wednesday in a major challenge to the federal E-rate program, which subsidizes telephone and high-speed internet services in schools, libraries, rural areas, and low-income communities in urban areas. Courts of Appeals for the 5th, 6th, 11th, and District of Columbia Circuits.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 8, 2021

In a letter, the court found a basis for a temporary injunction to allow Cross to return until Dec. 31 pending further orders of the court. Accordingly, “[T]he Court has found … that the disruption relied upon was insufficient.” Indeed, if Cross is fired, such questions could be soon before a court.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 3, 2022

Below is my column in the Hill on upcoming year for the Supreme Court. The Court’s docket is likely to put the institution at ground zero of a heated election year. Here is the column: The late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg once observed that “it’s hard not to have a big year at the Supreme Court.”

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JonathanTurley

MAY 24, 2021

So a ruling by a federal district court in Texas this week was particularly jarring: Judge Reed O’Connor found that the Biden administration engaged in systemic gender and race discrimination to implement COVID-19 relief for American restaurants. The government cited historical barriers for minority enterprises, but the court balked.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Florida Southern District Court. There was a surprising claim by Prince Andrew this week by his defense in the lawsuit from Virginia Roberts Giuffre, who claims that she was forced to have sex with him at the behest of Jeffrey Epstein. ” That does create a credible threshold defense and a tough question for the court.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 17, 2022

Like other parents in Fairfax, we were informed this weekend by the School District that it will not be complying with the order of Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin to lift all mask mandates for schools. The school districts are relying on a bill, Senate Bill 1303, that was approved and signed into law last year.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

Some of these questions are being addressed in the courts. According to the Washington Post , Dana Nessel “is conferring with election law experts on whether officials may have violated any state laws prohibiting them from engaging in bribery, perjury and conspiracy.” And yet, it’s back. In Kelly v. Chris Christie.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 23, 2022

Cawthorn prevailed in a federal court, which dismissed that effort; an appeal of that ruling will be heard May 3 by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit in Richmond, Va. Sheffey to hold a Virginia state court office, given his support for the Confederacy. Madison Cawthorn (R-N.C.),

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 3, 2024

Below is my column in The Messenger on the challenge facing the Supreme Court in the coming week over the electoral disqualification of former president Donald Trump in Colorado and Maine. The appeal in Maine has been filed and can now work its way up to the Court. Colorado is expected to file with the Court this week.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 9, 2024

Chutkan, who virtually turned her court into a rocket docket to try Trump. After the mandate in the case was returned to her, Judge Chutkan immediately resumed her high-speed scheduling to look at the pre-trial issues after the Court reversed her earlier rulings on the basis of presidential immunity. United States. United States.

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