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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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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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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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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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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

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

APRIL 30, 2024

Georgia , 601 U.S. _ (2024), the U.S. Supreme Court held that the State of Georgia can’t retry a defendant acquitted of murder by reason of insanity. The court vacated both the malice-murder and felony-murder verdicts pursuant to Georgia’s so-called repugnancy doctrine, and authorized retrial. In McElrath v. Supreme Court.

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The Crime Report

MARCH 18, 2022

Vigilante Justice Firearm Laws. The law professors detail that the small arms race arises from three main “troubling” legal implications, and it’s looking at the examples of Wisconsin and Georgia’s laws that “exemplify this perilous confluence.”.

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SCOTUSBlog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Share Tired of reading jargon-filled law review articles with hundreds of footnotes? The perfect antidote is Painting Constitutional Law: Xavier Cortada’s Images of Constitutional Rights , edited by Professors M.C. Cortada’s painting reminds us that Gideon’s petition started a constitutional debate that is still ongoing.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 22, 2022

In the past 20 years, the court has announced substantive constitutional law, pleading requirements, and timeliness rules that make it harder to win such arguments. 1983 , the iconic civil rights statute permitting plaintiffs (including prisoners) to sue state officers for infringing constitutional rights.

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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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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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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

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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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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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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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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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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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

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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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

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

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

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

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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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 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

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

AUGUST 16, 2023

For example, the indictment relies on calls like the controversial one Trump had with Georgia officials —a call long cited as indisputable evidence of an effort at voting fraud. There is no federal pardon option for Georgia. In the call, Trump pushed his demand for a statewide recount.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 7, 2023

He could, for example, believe that there were not hidden votes in suitcases under tables but still believe that he could challenge sufficient votes to make up a difference of only around 11,000 votes to change the result in Georgia. For example, Smith discusses at length the calls with Georgia officials on Trump’s demand for a recount.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

(MSNBC/Screengrab via YouTube) Below is my column in the Hill on release of the final report of the Special Purpose Grand Jury in Georgia. According to Schiff, Graham calling Georgia officials about the counting or discarding of votes was enough to justify a criminal charge. However, Rep. Adam Schiff (D., insisted that Sen.

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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 25, 2024

Most recently, the left expressed nothing short of horror that Judge Cannon allowed the Trump team to argue a point of constitutional law in a hearing. So, yes, not only has the issue of whether the special counsel comports with the structures of constitutional law, that’s been settled.

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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

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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