JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Judge Frank Easterbrook wrote that “although the article drips with disapproval of Wilkow’s (and the judges’) conduct, an author’s opinion about business ethics isn’t defamatory under Illinois law.” In the defamation action, Armenta could claim that he falls under the lower standard for defamation actions.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Judge Frank Easterbrook wrote that “although the article drips with disapproval of Wilkow’s (and the judges’) conduct, an author’s opinion about business ethics isn’t defamatory under Illinois law.”.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 4, 2023

The Times Higher Education has prompted a debate in the teaching academy over a call for “Black bereavement leave” by Angel Jones , a professor is a visiting assistant professor teaching educational leadership courses at Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 29, 2023

District Judge Stephen McGlynn has granted a preliminary injunction of Illinois’ ban on assault weapons and large capacity magazines. The decision comes after two other district courts ruled in favor of the law — sending this issue to the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and potentially the Supreme Court.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 5, 2022

Illinois Gov. Pritzker (D) and others responded to the massacre in Highland Park, Illinois with calls for more gun limits and bans. Pritzker repeated a dubious musket argument but also ignored that Illinois has some of the most stringent gun laws in the country, including bans on assault weapons and a red flag law.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 3, 2023

We recently discussed a federal judge enjoining the new Illinois law banning “assault weapons.” ” Now a gun shop in Naperville, Illinois has made it to the Supreme Court in seeking injunctive relief and Justice Amy Coney Barrett has given the proponents of the law until Monday to respond to the request.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

OCTOBER 14, 2024

The questions before the justices include: “(1) Whether the state’s suppression of the key prosecution witness’ admission that he was under the care of a psychiatrist and failure to correct that witness’ false testimony about that care and related diagnosis violate the due process of law under Brady v. Maryland and Napue v.

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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

DECEMBER 29, 2023

So here is the list to see if you are residing in an anti-free speech state: Arizona Colorado Connecticut Delaware Hawaii Illinois Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Nevada New Jersey New Mexico, New York Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island Vermont Washington Wisconsin District of Columbia Here is the brief: Missouri v.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 19, 2022

Hodgkinson, of Illinois, 66, a liberal activist and campaign supporter of Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.). It was outrageously and demonstrably untrue. The editorial was published in the wake of the shooting of Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.) and other GOP members of Congress by James T.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 8, 2022

This includes figures who can share first-hand accounts of their roles in historic events, like former Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who was effectively blocked from speaking at the University of Illinois; former Vice President Mike Pence was targeted at Stanford University.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 11, 2022

In 2017, Nevada went ahead and ratified the dead amendment while Illinois did so in 2018. Even assuming that the five states could be counted despite the votes to rescind their ratifications, the ERA was still three states short when it missed the second deadline. Then, in 2020, Virginia passed a ratification resolution for the ERA.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 6, 2021

In Illinois, eight women sued the Army for “harassment and retaliation, including rape, sodomy, unwelcome sexual advances and touching, requests for sexual favors, sexual innuendos, harassing phone calls, threats of physical harm, non-consensual sex and duress.” After all, this is a controlling Supreme Court precedent.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 7, 2021

However, in a move that seemed calculated to secure his vote for Tilden, the Illinois legislature then moved to appoint the independent, Justice David Davis , to the Senate. The key was that it was supposed to be composed of seven Democrats, seven Republicans and one independent.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

Illinois and Vermont picked limits of 15 rounds for handguns and 10 rounds for a rifles. It is extreme. Our federal government and most states impose no limits and in the states where limits are imposed, there is no consensus. Delaware landed on a 17-round magazine limit.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 26, 2022

Wade and 16 states have guaranteed abortion, including states such as California, Illinois and New York that hold a significant percentage of the population. Majority of Americans support legal abortions. Now, the overwhelming majority of Americans have supported Roe v.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Notably, there was ample evidence of raw fraud in states like Illinois that may have given Kennedy his victory over Nixon. Moreover, the misconduct of one company would never be accepted by a court as grounds for retroactively reevaluating a presidential election two years later. In his latest posting, Trump repeated that.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 12, 2022

We have seen student governments move to block speakers, fellow students, or groups at schools like the University of Illinois , Stanford , Iowa State , Skidmore College , Cornell , Harvard , and other schools.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

A similar challenge in Illinois failed despite districts that rival Nadler’s in fantastical, illogical shapes to gain Democratic seats. The North Carolina opinion could complicate things for Democrats, however, if it is applied to other states with anti-gerrymandering laws.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 8, 2023

Democratic leaders have shown that tendency in recent years with an expanding anti-free speech agenda, but no one more embodies this danger than Illinois Gov. Recently, a federal judge correctly ruled that a new Illinois law targeting pro-life centers is “painfully and blatantly a violation of the First Amendment.” JB Pritzker.

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The Crime Report

MAY 24, 2021

Asserting a strict interpretation of the 1788 Constitution and relying on relevant commentary and precedent since then, two constitutional law professors argue that in the unlikely event of a prosecution?and Supreme Court, and the intersection of law and technology. and conviction?Trump

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 21, 2023

Capitol amounted to insurrection and disqualified him from holding public office under state law and the 14th Amendment. Indeed, the court starts with a long quotation of the charge given by Illinois Judge Peter Stenger Grosscup. However, Judge Mathew’s decision is, in my view, dead wrong.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Most, like the federal court in northern Illinois, denounce the practice: “No one should be able to manipulate the assignment system in order to determine in advance which judge will get a case where the assignment is by lot.” Castro received a J.D. from the University of New Mexico and LLM from Georgetown University.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 19, 2025

In 2021 federal Judge Rudolph Contreras ruled that it would have been absurd for the Archivist to disregard the deadline and unilaterally add the unratified amendment to the Constitution. On appeal, a unanimous D.C.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 18, 2025

In 2021 federal Judge Rudolph Contreras ruled that it would have been “absurd” for the Archivist to disregard the deadline and unilaterally add the unratified amendment to the Constitution. On appeal, a unanimous D.C.

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