Constitutional Law Reporter

MARCH 1, 2021

Georgia : The long-standing dispute between Florida and Georgia involves the rights to the water in the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River Basin. The post Supreme Court Considers “Hot Pursuit” in Closely Watched Fourth Amendment Case appeared first on Constitutional Law Reporter. Below is a brief summary: Florida v.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Realtor associations and rental property managers in Alabama and Georgia sued to enjoin the CDC’s moratorium. The post US Supreme Court Strikes Down Federal Eviction Ban appeared first on Constitutional Law Reporter. “Their answers impact the health of millions.”.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 27, 2022

Georgia’s 1868 arms-bearing provision declared that: “The right of the people to bear arms in defense of themselves and the lawful authority of the State, shall not be infringed, but the Legislature may prescribe the manner in which they may be borne.” June, 2022).

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Constitutional Law Reporter

JUNE 29, 2021

Former Georgia police sergeant Nathan Van Buren used his patrol-car computer to access a law enforcement database to retrieve information about a particular license plate number in exchange for money. The post SCOTUS Adopts Narrow Interpretation of Computer Fraud Act appeared first on Constitutional Law Reporter.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

I remember spending weeks up in north Georgia in a warehouse with traffic lights so that the semis didn’t run you over if you were crossing INSIDE the warehouse. I remember being on a conference call with this paralegal working at this non-profit who could rattle off the constitutional case law and procedures, and I was so impressed.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 25, 2021

I have long maintained that the law is unconstitutional as a limitation of free speech and associational rights. This week, a court in Georgia became the latest to declare such laws unconstitutional. The opposition to these laws is not driven by the merits of the BDS movement or its opposition. ” O.C.G.A.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

APRIL 1, 2021

The suit was brough by former students at Georgia Gwinnett College who wished to exercise their religion by sharing their faith on campus while enrolled there. The post SCOTUS Rules Students Have Standing to Bring Free Speech Suit appeared first on Constitutional Law Reporter. Facts of the Case.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Georgia requires knowledge that the statement will be viewed as a threat, and Illinois and Pennsylvania require recklessness as to the statement’s threatening nature. The post SCOTUS to Clarify Standard for Determining Whether True Threat Exception Applies appeared first on Constitutional Law Reporter.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

JANUARY 3, 2022

Patel checked a box on a Georgia driver’s license application erroneously identifying himself as a U.S. The post SCOTUS Ends December Sitting With Potential First Amendment Blockbuster appeared first on Constitutional Law Reporter. 1104(a)(1)(B).” Garland: Pankajkumar S.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Graham after Graham invoked the clause to decline to testify on the Georgia allegations of election interference. While he can try to raise other privileges, Smith can seek his testimony on the non-legislative matters. That distinction was drawn in Fulton County v.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 11, 2023

The case involved an African-American defendant, Warren McCleskey, who was convicted of two counts of armed robbery and one count of murder in the Superior Court of Fulton County, Georgia.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 4, 2023

from George Washington University, two degrees from Georgia State University, and her B.A. They could also claim that they have comparative bereavement demands that are not given such categorical accommodations. Jones received her Ph.D from Syracuse University. ”

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Constitutional Law Reporter

MAY 17, 2022

Ward : The case challenges Georgia’s sole statutorily authorized method of execution, lethal injection. 1983 bringing an as-applied challenge to Georgia’s sole statutorily authorized method of execution, lethal injection. Below is a brief summary of the cases before the Court: Nance v. In Bucklew v. Precythe , 139 S.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 2, 2023

was found to have misrepresented his military service , and Georgia Republican senatorial candidate Herschel Walker was accused of misrepresenting law enforcement and educational credentials. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), who claimed to have Native American heritage. On the Republican side, former Sen. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.)

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 30, 2023

It is a continuation of his prior declarations that members of Congress opposing his election reforms to block state laws are voting with “ Jefferson Davis ” and the Confederacy. The claim was again historically and legally ridiculous even if one opposed these state laws.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

JUNE 9, 2022

1255 , which would have made Patel and his wife lawful permanent residents. The post Divided Supreme Court Limits Review of Factual Issues in Immigration Cases appeared first on Constitutional Law Reporter.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 13, 2022

San Francisco Regional Director Jill Coffman declared that the company is violating the rights of workers in 10 different states (Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Virginia, Maryland, Georgia, Washington, Indiana, and California). In her consolidated complaint against Whole Foods Market, Inc.,

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Below is my column in Fox.com on the recent decision finding the Georgia election law constitutional. That was the law widely denounced by President Joe Biden and other Democratic leaders as unconstitutional as a “new Jim Crow” law. Here is the column: “Jim Eagle” has landed… with a thud.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

In the War of 1812, Sapelo Island in Georgia was defended against a British attack by a group of 80 slaves, including their leader Bilali Muhammad, who were mostly Muslim. While everyone shall sit safely under his own vine and fig-tree and there shall be none to make him afraid.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 8, 2022

We recently discussed a federal court upholding the Georgia election law as constitutional, rejecting challenges based on voter suppression by a group associated with Democratic Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams. Now it appears that universal mail-in voting is barred in the state.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 8, 2021

district court in Georgia became the fourth court to enjoin a Biden Administration vaccine mandate this week. District Court for the Southern District of Georgia granted a preliminary injunction in favor of the Associated Builders and Contractors, a national trade group that represents the construction industry.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 7, 2021

Yesterday, Biden not only did not correct his false claims about the Georgia election law but doubled down that the law is a “Jim Crow law.” Biden is now saying that Georgia is a Jim Crow state with laws worse than the segregationist laws following the Civil War.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 19, 2024

Below is my column in The Messenger on the unfolding Fani Willis scandal in Georgia. The Georgia courts have established that a district attorney should be disqualified when there is a personal interest in the defendant’s conviction ( Whitworth v. The Georgia case has a number of credible criminal charges against various defendants.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

He was denounced for a tweet where he suggested that Georgia voters could not be expected to be able to read their driver’s licenses correctly — a statement that seemed to refer to minority voters who would be disproportionately impacted by such a requirement.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 4, 2022

Georgia in favor of the Cherokee tribe, Georgia refused to obey the court; President Andrew Jackson allegedly said, “John Marshall has made his decision; now let him enforce it.”. Soon after Marbury was handed down, a new argument emerged that seems to be a Democratic talking point today. Today, we hear the same calls for defiance.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 5, 2021

The problem for Democrats is that not only are voter-identification laws popular with voters but are likely to be upheld by the courts, along with other provisions dictating conditions for voting. Absent a federal takeover of elections, laws like the one in Georgia are likely to be upheld. In McPherson v.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 28, 2023

Yesterday, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit upheld critical provisions in Florida election law reforms, including provisions that Democratic politicians and pundits spent years misrepresenting as “a return to Jim Crow.” Elias and others also lost similar efforts in Georgia.

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Above The Law

JANUARY 24, 2025

This suggests a cautious approach to expanding federal equitable jurisdiction, in line with a judicial philosophy that prioritizes legal processes and constitutional rights. #3 The court reversed the district court’s decision and remanded with instructions to enter summary judgment for Bachmann. 1983), and qualified immunity.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 31, 2022

Curtis, who grew up in Georgia with cognitive and developmental disabilities, always hoped to leave these facilities and move back into her community. Lois Curtis (July 14, 1967 – Nov. For much of Lois Curtis’ childhood and young adulthood, she was involuntarily held in psychiatric institutions. Walter Dellinger (May 15, 1941 – Feb.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Below is my column in the Hill on the Georgia runoff and how media stories have focused on the runoff as a racist invention. Indeed, with the mantra this election that “democracy is on the ballot,” one would think that both parties would support such runoffs not just in Georgia but throughout the country.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 21, 2020

the outcomes in Georgia, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania were worryingly close.”. Yet in the end, Joe Biden was elected by a sizable number electoral votes. Professor Hasbrouck adds however that “even with overwhelming Black support— 94 percent of Detroit voted for Biden!

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

As I wrote at the time , I still disagree with the outcome but I felt that Judge Cox made some compelling arguments based on the removal of key language from the law by an earlier legislature. The Georgia Supreme Court yesterday upheld his ruling. This is a credible reading of state law and the state courts have spoken.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 30, 2023

Not only are defendants scattering, but some are seeking to go to federal court where the trial would not likely be televised, as the Georgia prosecutors reportedly want. Trump potentially faces four major prosecutions in the District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia and New York before the 2024 election. In Washington, U.S.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 11, 2023

In a rally in Georgia, Trump declared : “They’ve launched one witch hunt after another to try and stop our movement, to thwart the will of the American people. Jonathan Turley, an attorney, constitutional law scholar and legal analyst, is the Shapiro Chair for Public Interest Law at The George Washington University Law School.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 7, 2023

This might be what he meant in his call with Georgia officials in which he stated “I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have because we won the state.” So even assuming that Smith can prove Trump lied, there would still be constitutional barriers to criminalizing his false statements.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 23, 2022

The latter effort just received a huge boost from a judge in Georgia who has allowed a challenge to knock Rep. Here is the column: As the country braces for the midterm elections, the left seems to be rallying behind three D’s: Democracy, Disinformation and Disqualification. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.)

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 17, 2023

(None of the presidential candidates could pardon Trump for state charges in New York or, potentially, in Georgia.) Jonathan Turley, an attorney, constitutional law scholar and legal analyst, is the Shapiro Chair for Public Interest Law at The George Washington University Law School.

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