Constitutional Law Criminal Law Tennessee 
JonathanTurley
APRIL 1, 2023
A federal judge has temporarily blocked a new Tennessee law limiting drag shows on constitutional grounds. Federal district judge Thomas Parker granted an injunction on the ground that the Tennessee law is vague and overly broad. “Drag” is not defined in the law.
JonathanTurley
AUGUST 22, 2021
As I noted earlier , if the officer intended to shoot Babbitt, it would not likely meet the standard for a justified shooting under governing cases like Tennessee v. I fail to see the justified basis under controlling legal standards but I may have the bias of a criminal defense attorney. Garner (1985).
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JonathanTurley
APRIL 18, 2021
If the officer intended to shoot Babbitt, it would not likely meet the standard for a justified shooting under governing cases like Tennessee v. (Babbitt was trying to climb through a broken door in the Speaker’s Lobby as police fought back the mob). Garner (1985).
JonathanTurley
JANUARY 14, 2021
Here is what I precisely wrote on the Blount and Belknap impeachment in The Executive Function Theory, The Hamilton Affair, And Other Constitutional Mythologies , 77 North Carolina Law Review 1791 (1999): 1. The impeachment of Senator William Blount of Tennessee may have been the most interesting both factually and legally.
Above The Law
MARCH 7, 2025
Skrmetti The case examines whether Tennessee’s law restricting certain medical treatments for transgender minors, based on their sex, violates the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment. No decision yet United States v. Check out more of his writing at Legalytics and Empirical SCOTUS. Find him on Twitter: @AdamSFeldman.
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