JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 12, 2021

One of the briefs written in support of the district in the recent litigation was from constitutional scholars, including my colleague Alan B. Morrison, Lerner Family Associate Dean at George Washington Law School. I reached out to Professor Morrison to see if he would offer a response on the ruling and the underlying issues.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 31, 2024

There is a curious resolution of a civil right complaint against University of Minnesota Law School over a diversity fellowship sponsored by the law firm of Jones Day. Despite being created by a law firm and administered by a law school, the fellowship violated federal law in excluding white and male applicants.

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 21, 2021

The key topics included the confirmation process, term limits, transparency and disclosure, expanding the size of the court, and the court’s role in a constitutional government. President Joe Biden appointed the 36-member commission to write a report on various court-reform options. Other potential timeframes include 12 or 16 years.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 24, 2023

In Wisconsin, for example, a federal court stopped Biden’s controversial $4 billion race-based federal relief program for farmers, holding that white farmers were found to be “experiencing discrimination at the hands of their government.” Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at the George Washington University Law School.

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Above The Law

AUGUST 9, 2021

Kavanaugh's concurrence is not precedent and it's bad for the country to pretend it was.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Paralegals in the UK are not regulated, so there is no set level of education set by a governing body that you need to meet in order to get hired. However, as many of you may know, the more education or experience you have, the easier it is to land a job. These positions entail comparative duties, but some are more substantial than others.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 25, 2021

The comments reflect a growing call for states and the federal government to reject any religious exemptions for vaccination. Instead, the federal government must show that the burden imposed furthers a “compelling governmental interest” and is “the least restrictive means” of furthering that interest.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Columbia Journalism School Dean Steve Coll has denounced the “weaponization” of free speech , which appears to be the use of free speech by those on the right. A prior poll shows roughly half of the public supporting not just corporate censorship but government censorship of anything deemed “misinformation.”

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JonathanTurley

JULY 11, 2023

It also is clear that the House committee can now demand — and, if necessary, compel — answers from Becerra on whether federal law was knowingly flaunted and whether Congress was actively misled. Fauci, now retired from the federal government, is a professor at Georgetown University and collecting $350,000 per year in government pensions.

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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

MAY 28, 2021

We recently discussed the controversy at Rutgers Law School over the reading of the “n-word” from a state supreme court opinion. The requirement (for any group receiving more than $250) presents some interesting questions in the conflict between free speech and diversity programs at such schools.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 3, 2023

That is why we prefer to have comedies written by people like Cleese as opposed to government functionaries. 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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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Lincoln Caplan is a senior research scholar and a visiting lecturer in law at Yale Law School and also teaches in Yale’s English and political science departments. Professors at the event reflected on opinions about administrative law, free speech, patents, and other topics.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 8, 2023

378, 387 (1987), the Court declared that a government employee was protected in expressing a highly offensive statement about the attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan. The panel decision runs against the grain of various prior decisions of the Supreme Court. For example, in Rankin v. McPherson , 483 U.S. as “very conservative.”

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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

JULY 13, 2022

Tisch Professor of Law, New York University Law School, and a senior lecturer at the University of Chicago. Regrettably, too many First Amendment experts, like George Washington Law School Professor Jonathan Turley , have adopted what I termed a generation ago First Amendment exceptionalism.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 12, 2024

An alliance of the government, corporations, academia, and media have assembled to create an unprecedented system of censorship, blacklisting, and speech regulation. Conservative faculty have been hounded from schools and conservative sites have been targeted by government-funded programs. Ready to sign your rights away?

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 30, 2022

Clinton has called on foreign governments to step in and pass laws that would force Twitter to continue to censor opposing views. There are also allegations of back-channel communications from the government to manage a type of censorship-by-surrogate system to evade the First Amendment.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Free speech advocates are facing a generational shift that is now being reflected in our law schools, where free speech principles were once a touchstone of the rule of law. The First Amendment is premised on the belief that this right is essential to protecting the other freedoms in the Constitution. It is working.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Some of us have been raising concerns over Twitter’s massive censorship system for years, including what I called the emergence of a “ shadow state ” where corporations carry out censorship the Constitution bars the government from doing. Jonathan Turley is an attorney and professor at George Washington University Law School.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 31, 2022

I understand the the impetus of this law was opposition to racially divisive materials, including Critical Race Theory (CRT) material. The laws passed in states l ike Pennsylvania are not CRT prohibitions but required posting of teaching materials, syllabi, and scholastic achievement scores online.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 30, 2024

In a New York Times column, “The Constitution Is Broken and Should Not Be Reclaimed,” law professors Ryan D. Doerfler of Harvard and Samuel Moyn of Yale called for the Constitution to be “radically altered” to “reclaim America from constitutionalism.” However, we are joined in a common article of faith in the Constitution.

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Above The Law

AUGUST 14, 2023

Constitutional law expert' Jonathan Turley forgets how the Constitution schedules elections in his latest Trump criminal case analysis. The post Jonathan Turley Still Can’t Figure Out Calendar, Constitution appeared first on Above the Law.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 8, 2021

This trend has reached law schools, which is ominous since these students are the future judges and lawyers who are expected to defend these core principles. From high schools through law schools, free speech has gone from being considered a right that defines our society to being dismissed as a threat.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 15, 2023

Democratic leaders actively promote censorship on social media and vehemently defend government efforts to target citizens or groups. confirmed Kelly suggested “that government should work with social media companies to censor information that could lead to a run on banks.” Thomas Massie (R-Ky.)

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JURIST

APRIL 10, 2021

Under the executive order, membership of the commission is to be “constitutional scholars, retired members of the Federal judiciary, or other individuals having experience with and knowledge of” the Supreme Court and the US judicial system. The vast majority of the 36 members are law professors and scholars.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 6, 2022

Georgetown University Law School Professor Rosa Brooks has drawn accolades and criticism for her appearance on MSNBC’s “The ReidOut” after declaring that Americans are “slaves” to the U.S. Constitution and that the Constitution itself is now the problem for the country. This is 100% us.”

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Holmes wrote, “The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing a panic.” ‘Fire in a theater’ case supported government censorship As I discuss in the book, the line was largely lifted from a brief in an earlier free speech case.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

” For years, the administration and many Democrats in Congress have resisted every effort to expose the sprawling government censorship program that one federal judge described as an “Orwellian ‘Ministry of Truth.'”

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 13, 2022

He was prescient in recognizing the need for a strong national government to deal with urgent issues, such as civil rights. He is also a graduate of Columbia Law School. He felt that people who came to America needed to commit themselves to the hard work of self-government. Instead, Lincoln put Kentucky under martial law.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 10, 2023

has even doggedly maintained that the laptop may really be Russian disinformation, despite confirmation of its content by witnesses, government investigators, and several media organizations. Even now, some are frantically joining Biden in calls for blind denials. Dan Goldman (D-N.Y.) It won’t work.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

The Democrats this week appear to have taken up the same cudgel in labeling opponents and critics Russian sympathizers and fellow travelers in opposing government involvement in a massive censorship system. The files show dozens of FBI and government employees actively seeking the censorship of citizens and others for their viewpoints.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 31, 2022

In 1973, Beckwith was a recent graduate of law school and was working as a political reporter for TIME magazine. During an illustrious career as a constitutional law scholar and a top Supreme Court advocate, Walter Dellinger argued 24 times before the court, including in some of the biggest cases of the past 30 years.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 25, 2022

The New York Times column called for citizens to view the Constitution as the real enemy and to push to “radically alter the basic rules of the game.” The attack on our Constitution has become something of an article of faith for the far left in recent years. The Constitution has long been the very thing that defined us.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Brandon Hasbrouck is an assistant professor at Washington and Lee University School of Law, has written an article in The Nation calling for a new form of reparations based on voting. The Electoral College was designed as part of a republican model of government. Indeed, it would change the entire form of our government.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 20, 2021

We recently discussed the rise of a generation of censors as young people embrace the role of government and corporate censorship. ” The shift is almost entirely among Democrats who ( like Democratic leaders ) now overwhelming favor fewer free speech protections and more government control over speech. .”

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 9, 2024

And to do so, they ought to draw on the robust and inventive debate that is brewing among scholars in law schools, think tanks, and advocacy organizations over how to fix the Court. Either that, or submit to being governed for another 30, 40, or 50 years by unelected partisans in robes.

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