Constitutional Law Drafting Illinois 
JonathanTurley
MAY 28, 2021
Putting aside the clearly poor drafting of such a standard, it would apply to any group receiving as little as $250. So, as one of the listed groups at the law school, if the Rutgers Law School Softball Club asked for money for pizza after a game, it would have to hold an event on Critical Race Theory or other mandates topics.
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 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.
JonathanTurley
JUNE 26, 2022
It did not dramatically change since the leak of an earlier draft. Wade was wrongly decided: “The Constitution does not prohibit the citizens of each State from regulating or prohibiting abortion. .” While this is a momentous decision, it is important to note what it does and does not do.
JonathanTurley
FEBRUARY 7, 2022
Drafting coherent districts evenly and logically to divide populations is not particularly difficult. A similar challenge in Illinois failed despite districts that rival Nadler’s in fantastical, illogical shapes to gain Democratic seats. Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.), Gerrymandering is to politics what doping is to sports.
JonathanTurley
AUGUST 8, 2023
When the Framers drafted the First Amendment, they did so in absolutist terms to allow no abridgment of the freedom of expression. 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. The language was unprecedented and unqualified.
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