JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Missouri does not appear to have a formal retraction law, but it is still considered a necessary step. 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

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Moreover, what constitutes an opinion as opposed to a factual claim is generally left to a jury: “some statements are ambiguous and cannot be characterized as factual or nonfactual as a matter of law. ‘In Bower, 232 Cal.App.3d 3d 1599, 1608 (1991).

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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 term refers guns that are assembled in parts and, therefore, difficult to trace by law enforcement due to their lack serial numbers and transfer records. The post SCOTUS Kicks Off New Term With … appeared first on Constitutional Law Reporter. The most closely watched case is Garland v. Williams v. Maryland and Napue v.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 19, 2022

Hodgkinson, of Illinois, 66, a liberal activist and campaign supporter of Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.). Sullivan , Justice Hugo Black said that “state libel laws threaten the very existence of an American press virile enough to publish unpopular views on public affairs and bold enough to criticize the conduct of public officials.”.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

She subsequently reported Counterman to law enforcement. Law enforcement arrested Counterman on May 12, 2016, and charged him one count of stalking (credible threat), section 18-3-602(1)(b) ; one count of stalking (serious emotional distress), section 18-3-602(1)(c) ; and one count of harassment, section 18-9-111(1)(e), C.R.S.

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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

JULY 8, 2022

It was always doubtful that a law school would take the unprecedented step of barring a sitting Supreme Court justice. It’s not an unfamiliar position for the Supreme Court justice, but it generated surprising support at a leading law school. Jonathan Turley is an attorney and professor at George Washington University Law School.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 11, 2022

They have sought to negate state election laws and impose their own federal election standards on states. Before and after the ERA was passed by Congress in 1972, a variety of state and federal laws have been passed to enforce prohibitions on discrimination on the basis for gender and enforce equality rules in pay, promotions and programs.

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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. Despite showing that the attacks could have been prevented under existing laws and powers, the budgets and powers of both agencies were then massively increased.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

It seems that we continue to struggle with a chief executive who goes on social media to personally attack judges who have ruled against his laws or policies. It is certainly an open question but gun-rights advocates are challenging these laws as without constitutional or historical foundation. No, it is not Donald Trump.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 26, 2022

His concurrence did not seriously question the majority view that Roe was not based on a good law. It is the ultimate call of an incrementalist detached from the underlying constitutional interpretation. Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 12, 2022

In a series of tweets this week, Professor Heidi Li Feldman has denounced “lawless” and “actively rogue” Supreme Court justices and professors who disagree with her views on the Constitution. She has called for “genuine” law professors not to fall “into complicity with lawlessness” in teaching such subjects.

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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

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Nevertheless, President Biden and Democrats like Nadler are seeking to take control over state election laws in the name of democracy. A similar challenge in Illinois failed despite districts that rival Nadler’s in fantastical, illogical shapes to gain Democratic seats. You can find his updates on Twitter @JonathanTurley.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 21, 2023

There is a spirited debate growing among law professors over the claim that former president Donald Trump is disqualified under the 14th Amendment from holding office. Various law professors have argued that Trump is already barred, even without a charge or conviction for insurrection or even incitement. 828 (N.D.

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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 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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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 his final week as president, Joe Biden again invoked liberal professors to justify a plainly absurd constitutional argument by declaring that the 28th Amendment is now ratified. By invoking “leading legal constitutional scholars,” Biden only added redundancy to absurdity in claiming that the Equal Rights Amendment is now law.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 18, 2025

” Without naming them, Biden cites dozens of “constitutional experts” to support this absurd claim. 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.

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