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Above The Law
MAY 5, 2025
note : Please welcome Renee Knake Jefferson back to the pages of Above the Law. Subscribe to her Substack, Legal Ethics Roundup, here. Welcome to what captivates, haunts, inspires, and surprises me every week in the world of legal ethics. 2025 NYC Rule of Law Rally 2025 by David Lat is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
JonathanTurley
JUNE 9, 2023
It is a curious call for a governor to make after he ran ads in Florida calling on people to “join us in California.” California Attorney General Rob Bonta (D) chimed in, declaring the flight from Florida might be “ State-sanctioned kidnapping.” First, let’s look at the law. Gavin Newsom (D.,
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JonathanTurley
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
.” The filing is a Jackson Pollock of legal claims with twelve claims thrown against Florida from false imprisonment to intentional infliction of emotional distress to misuse of the Coronavirus State Fiscal Recovery Fund. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), including USCIS Form AR-11, “Alien’s Change of Address Card.”
JonathanTurley
APRIL 27, 2022
An appellate panel ruled that the discriminatory-harassment and bias response team policies at the University of Central Florida (UCF) likely violate the First Amendment. He also ruled the group did not have legal standing to challenge the bias-related incidents policy. The decision in Speech First v. ’ Oral Arg.
JonathanTurley
DECEMBER 17, 2021
Below is my column in The Hill on the recent bills proposed in Florida and California on immigration and guns. The bills are the latest examples of “gotcha legislation,” though the Florida bill could raise some interesting legal questions if Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) and Florida Gov.
JonathanTurley
SEPTEMBER 5, 2023
Phil Murphy is pushing back on a plan to fly undocumented immigrants to his state, suggesting that New Jersey is now effectively off-limits to planned federal flights dropping off undocumented immigrants. There is a key legal distinction at play in these moves. New Jersey’s Democrat Gov. We can’t afford it. We’re a poor county.
Above The Law
JUNE 26, 2025
Earlier this week , the New York Times reported that University of Florida law professor — Trump-appointed federal judge, by the way — John L. Aside from everything else, the University of Florida law school community has… concern s. Unless it’s actually the 1L legal writing course maybe.
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