SCOTUSBlog

AUGUST 29, 2023

Share So many books cover the work of the Supreme Court that the Journal of Supreme Court History can review several of them in each issue. The overwhelming majority of those books, though, analyze the work of the court interpreting the Constitution. But this book has much more to offer the student of the modern court.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 14, 2022

Professor Reges has declared “Land acknowledgments are performative acts of conformity that should be resisted, even if it lands you in court.”. He has now been told that, while the university statement is optional, his statement is unacceptable because it questions the indigenous land claim of the Coast Salish people.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Washington Democrats are adding a fifth stage for confessions under a new law. The bill would amend the state law that currently applies to law enforcement, teachers, medical professionals or child care providers to report cases of child abuse or neglect. The court, however, ruled that he was constitutionally exempt.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Supreme Court held that when an expert conveys an absent lab analyst’s statements in support of the expert’s opinion, and the statements provide that support only if true, then the statements come into evidence for their truth, and implicate the Sixth Amendment’s Confrontation Clause. The Court’s decision was unanimous. In Smith v.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 19, 2024

As an academic and a legal commentator, I have sometimes disagreed with the United States Supreme Court, but I often stress the good-faith differences in how certain rights or protections are interpreted. There is now a petition before the Supreme Court that would allow it to reconsider this pernicious precedent. New London.

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LawSites

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

It was a bathroom break that inspired Bradley Neal , a 3L at The George Washington University Law School , to develop a product that uses generative AI to help law students better understand and brief cases. Returning to class after a visit to the bathroom, he had lost the thread of the case the professor was discussing.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

JUNE 17, 2022

Supreme Court held that the authority of a court to imply a cause of action under Bivens v. While the Court did not overrule Bivens , it did emphasize that recognizing a Bivens cause of action is “a disfavored judicial activity.”. Respondent Robert Boule owns a bed-and-breakfast—the Smuggler’s Inn—in Blaine, Washington.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

AUGUST 28, 2023

Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of state laws requiring corporations operating within their borders to consent to personal jurisdiction when they register to do business in those states. According to the Court, such laws do not offend the Constitution’s Due Process Clause. Washington , 326 U.S.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

A teacher in Washington was told to remove a “Blue Lives Matter” flag that she put up to support her brother who was a former police officer. On the one hand, certain forms of speech, or speech in certain contexts, has been considered outside the scope of constitutional protection. We now have the inverse case.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Supreme Court held that the trial court’s admission—over a criminal defendant’s objection—of the plea allocution transcript of an unavailable witness violated his Sixth Amendment right to confront the witnesses against him. The Court’s vote was 8-1, with Justice Clarence Thomas as the lone dissenter. Supreme Court’s Decision.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 11, 2021

Last night, the Texas Supreme Court lifted the temporary restraining order. The lack of case law was at the heart of the “fact check” of the PolitiFact. Such fact checks are often challenged as biased, including the well-known fact checking at the Washington Post ( here and here ). Thus, there is no legal clarity.”

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

He is the author of six books about the law, including American Justice 2016: The Political Supreme Court and The Tenth Justice: The Solicitor General and the Rule of Law. Professors at the event reflected on opinions about administrative law, free speech, patents, and other topics. Seattle School District No.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 30, 2021

Recently, I was critical of a Washington Post column by University of California-Berkeley Dean Erwin Chemerinsky and Professor Aaron S. Apparently, one such judge is United States District Court Judge Michael Fitzgerald who went out of his way to say that this was not a close question before summarily dismissing the Chemerinsky/Edlin theory.

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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

MARCH 12, 2025

District Court Judge Larry Hicks dismissed the case in 2023. Now the Ninth Circuit has reversed Judge Hicks and found that Jensen is entitled to his day in court. The Court has held that, when a public employer retaliates against an employee for workplace-related speech, the First Amendment requires balanc[ing].

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Here is the column: Forty-four years ago, the Supreme Court was the center of a raging protest by thousands as the justices took up the case of Regents of the University of California v. As a teenage congressional page, I was one of the faces in that crowd gathered around the court in October 1977 to watch history being made.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 7, 2021

In a demonstrably meritless lawsuit, 22 Texas House Democrats sued some of the state’s top Republican leaders in federal court in Austin over the efforts to bring them home for a special legislative session. It was an ironic moment as Democrats in Washington celebrated their act while they denounced filibusters. James White.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 8, 2022

The same concerns were raised this week after Washington Gov. Such a law would threaten political speech and create a chilling effect for those who want to raise such concerns in contested elections. Inslee’s proposals raise the same questions that we discussed in relation to “stolen valor” laws. In Lamont v.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Any first-year law student knows that you cannot comment on the silence of a Mirandized defendant after an arrest under the Fifth Amendment – let alone ignore a court order. Jonathan Turley, a member of USA TODAY’s Board of Contributors, is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 25, 2021

We have been discussing the state laws requiring contractors and employees to swear that they do not support the the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (“BDS”) movement against Israel. I have long maintained that the law is unconstitutional as a limitation of free speech and associational rights. In NAACP v. Recently, the U.S.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

4] The Washington Post and other media outlets have also declared the President’s insistence that his family did not take money from China as false. [5] 13] Some of the deals negotiated by Hunter involved potential benefits for his father, including office space in Washington. [14] Post, Apr. 27, 2023. [13] 27, 2023. [14]

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Here is the column: With the formal approval of the impeachment inquiry into the conduct of President Joe Biden, the alarm and denial in Washington has reached an almost hysterical level. This false narrative is being repeated despite the fact courts have rejected this claim in actual criminal cases.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 4, 2023

Yesterday, a three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit voted 2-1 to overturn an injunction against Illinois’ “assault weapons” ban. The case could set up a major test for gun rights for the United States Supreme Court. Raoul by U.S. District Judge Stephen P. Conservative judge Michael P.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Those efforts received a boost recently from the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, which rejected the free speech claims of North Carolina State University Professor Stephen Porter. Board of Trustees of North Carolina State University is pending before the Supreme Court for possible review. and Maurice C.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 10, 2021

They have been heralded by Democrats in Washington (despite their own opposition to federal filibusters as anti-Democratic). The members hit on the meaning of arrest to incorporate constitutional and statutory limits for officers to make arrests, including the requirement of an underlying criminal allegation.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 7, 2022

Washington, D.C. Shapiro Professor Of Public Interest Law. The George Washington University Law School. Washington, D.C. Former Special Agent, Federal Bureau of Investigation. Garnell Whitfield, Jr. Buffalo, NY. Former U.S. Northern District of Ohio. Cleveland, OH. Professor Jonathan Turley.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 2, 2023

Such demands have been heard on various cable networks for weeks without addressing the constitutional barriers to denying a duly elected member from taking a seat. In my view, Santos could prevail in a court fight over being seated if he is barred due to lying about his credentials or background. The court agreed.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 31, 2021

Some have called for the change to increase diversity in the schools, particularly after California voters refused to change the long ban on affirmative action in education under state law. Here is the column: The Supreme Court will decide early next month whether to take a new case on the use of race in college admissions.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 12, 2021

The highlight of the package, though, is a new law allowing people harmed by firearms to sue the manufacturers. Not only does that law face serious constitutional challenges but similar lawsuits brought on similar grounds have failed miserably in the courts. Either way, it is not the law being pitched to the public.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 6, 2023

A video has gone viral of the owner of a Washington state dispensary unleashing a profanity-laced verbal attack on state trooper, Yasin Anwar, who pulled over a driver near the Green Seed in Moses Lake, Washington, a marijuana shop. City of Fort Smith , the court heard a similar case. In 1971, the Court ruled in Cohen v.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 13, 2021

Courts have upheld the right of citizens to insult police, which is an unfortunate aspect of policing. Thus, in 2015, the Washington Supreme Court ruled that police could not arrest a 17-year-old who called them “pigs.”

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 15, 2022

Notably, this week, the board defended its policy before the Supreme Court by insisting that it was not “race balancing” and that the new policy is entirely “race neutral.” The TJ case is important not just to constitutional but educational standards in America. Follow him on Twitter @JonathanTurley.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 19, 2021

The case could present an important court test for this country in resisting the criminalization of speech that we have seen in Europe. Supreme Court weighs the right of schools to punish students for out-of-school speech in Mahanoy Area School District v. The Supreme Court accelerated that trend in its Morse decision.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Constitution’s 14th Amendment , race-based classifications trigger strict scrutiny requiring a showing of both a “compelling state interest” and “narrowly tailored” means. 469 (1989), the Supreme Court struck down a set-aside for minority businesses due to a lack of evidence of specific injuries. In City of Richmond 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. I was delighted when he accepted.

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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

JANUARY 29, 2021

In a Slate column entitled “ Constitutional Critiques of Elizabeth Warren’s Wealth Tax Proposal Are Absurd ,” Ackerman dismisses any possible constitutional challenge and made reference to my earlier Washington Post column. However, the fastest migration is likely to be into the courts rather than out of the country.

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