JonathanTurley

APRIL 2, 2022

Aladin was charged with robbery, which is a second degree felony, and Whettstone and Lawrence were charged with first degree misdemeanor assault. Oberlin maintained in court filings that the son and grandson of the owners of Gibson’s Bakery “violently and unreasonably attacked” an unarmed student, but that is not how the police viewed it.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

He was charged (and later acquitted) of a felony under an Ohio law prohibiting the use of a computer to “disrupt” or “interrupt” police functions. Accordingly, ComicMix governs the outcome here. The Onion filed a brilliant parody brief to support the parody claim. “A parody functions just like a mash-up. 302 at 20.)

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OCTOBER 28, 2022

The federal government – which prosecuted Jones – says the 8th Circuit got the reasoning wrong but the outcome right: It urges the Supreme Court to correct the lower court’s error but deny Jones relief. 922(g) prohibits people with felony convictions from possessing a firearm. Here is the background: 18 U.S.C. §

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JonathanTurley

MAY 3, 2023

22A948: Can the government ban the sale, purchase, and possession of certain semi-automatic firearms and firearm magazines tens of millions of which are possessed by law-abiding American for lawful purposes when there is no analogous historical ban as required in D.C. Here is the question in Bevis v. Her dissent in Kanter v.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 24, 2022

The law criminalizes sharing information on “the means to obtain an abortion, knowing that the information will be used, or is reasonably likely to be used, for an abortion.” Even the federal government and members of Congress would be in violation since it is actively assisting those seeking abortion services.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 27, 2023

” (He did not explain why a message legally acquired by the government from the cloud account of his client would be illegal to include in the report of a congressional investigatory committee.) His lawyer, Chris Clark, first insisted that the release of the messages “are not only irresponsible, they are illegal.”

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

The Fifth Circuit rejected a novel and sweeping interpretation by the Biden Administration that the Second Amendment does not apply to individuals deemed “dangerous” by the government. It further noted: Perhaps most importantly, the Government’s proffered interpretation lacks any true limiting principle.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

District Judge David Counts in Midland, Texas also struck down a firearms law that banned individuals under felony indictment from buying guns. The purpose of enshrining a right into the Constitution is to limit the discretion of a legislature. Barr , 919 F.3d 3d 437, 451–53 (7th Cir. 2019) (Barrett, J., dissenting).

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 9, 2023

The California provision states that kidnapping involves someone who “abducts or takes by force or fraud any person contrary to the law of the place where that act is committed, and brings, sends, or conveys that person within the limits of this state.” state once they are released by the federal government.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Nevertheless, Rodrigues declared “it is a felony under Florida law to ‘knowingly provide material support … to a designated foreign terrorist organization.’” Accordingly a function of free speech under our system of government is to invite dispute. Students for Justice in Palestine has been on U.S.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

is of the essence of a democratic society, and any restrictions on that right strike at the heart of representative government.”). Unvirtuousness” based on the felony label is a mushy standard that sets no limit. Neither the majority nor the Government suggests otherwise. Sims, 377 U.S. 533, 555 (1964) (“The right to vote.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 18, 2021

At a time of lost confidence in the integrity of the government, the conduct of a former official can demand a political response. Regardless of the outcome, the Belknap trial addressed the underlying conduct and affirmed core principles at a time of diminishing faith in government.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 24, 2024

Through various contortions, Bragg converted a dead misdemeanor case into 34 felonies in an unprecedented prosecution. New Yorkers and the media insisted that such selective prosecution was in defense of the “rule of law.” In Gonzalez v. She had briefly misplaced a petition on a table at a public meeting.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 10, 2024

That moment soon passed, however, as lawyers apparently explained to the mayor that armed resistance to the federal government is often called wait for it insurrection. The cities pledge to continue their ban on any cooperation with the federal government in detaining or removing unlawful migrants. Such measures can go too far.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Others claimed Trump committed “felony bribery” by fundraising for Republican senators when he was about to be impeached. It did not matter that the Supreme Court has roundly rejected such sweeping interpretations of bribery, extortion and related political corruption. Many were quick to repeat their certainty of yet another criminal act.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

.” This ridiculous legal claims is based on the bribery theory: The danger for Shirkey and Chatfield, then, is that they are being visibly invited to a meeting where the likely agenda involves the felony of attempting to bribe a public official. McNally, 483 U. This Court declined to go along.

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