JonathanTurley

MAY 21, 2021

The New York Times is reporting that a Rutgers Law Professor and law student are under fire after the student reluctantly read the n-word in a 1993 legal opinion. That triggers a petition from students to demand action from the law school and apologies from both the professor and the student.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 9, 2023

First, let’s look at the law. 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.”

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Below is my (slightly updated) column in the New York Post on three myths being widely repeated in the Biden impeachment inquiry. Jonathan Turley is an attorney and professor at George Washington University Law School.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 29, 2022

While the Constitution does not guarantee that your views will prevail in Congress or the courts, it has proven the most stable and successful democratic system in history. We are all invested in that system which has achieved transformative changes over time in our laws and our society. It was written by the ultimate wonk in Madison.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 12, 2021

I have repeatedly testified and written on the constitutional barriers to such a vote absent statehood. See Jonathan Turley, Too Clever By Half: The Partial Representation of the District of Columbia in the House of Representatives , 76 George Washington University Law Review 305 -374 (2008). I was delighted when he accepted.

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 21, 2021

Commissioner David Strauss, a professor at the University of Chicago Law School, mentioned that one thing he sees as an “unhealthy relationship” is that each nominee is given a “team” during Senate confirmation hearings. An 18-year term limit would mean a new justice every two years – or two appointments per presidency.

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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. In protecting the rule of law, how we do things is often as what we do. t is ours, too. ” McCulloch v.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Those arguments are based on both the constitutional protection of religious values but also laws like Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, 42 U.S.C. In New York, the state is appealing a preliminary injunction against its refusal to allow religious exemptions to its vaccine mandate.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 30, 2022

Below is my column in the New York Post on the media meltdown over the Musk takeover at Twitter. Clinton has called on foreign governments to step in and pass laws that would force Twitter to continue to censor opposing views. Jonathan Turley is an attorney and professor at George Washington University Law School.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 15, 2023

Below is my column in the New York Post on the suggested censorship of bank critics by Sen. Jonathan Turley is an attorney and a professor at George Washington University Law School. Mark Kelly (D., It was only the latest example of how censorship has become a reflexive response of many Democrats to opposing views.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 13, 2022

He is also a graduate of Columbia Law School. In the end, though, a large part of the story turned on the question of just what it was that enabled Harlan to see the law so differently from his peers. I corresponded with Canellos about his book. Here is our conversation, which has been lightly edited for length and clarity.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 30, 2024

The voices calling for radical change have been growing for years, including among law professors and legal commentators. Constitution “trash” and argued that we should simply just dump it. In a New York Times column, “The Constitution Is Broken and Should Not Be Reclaimed,” law professors Ryan D.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Below is my column in the New York Post on the second release of the “Twitter Files.” ” The new material exposes the company’s system of censorship and suppression of disfavored views. Jonathan Turley is an attorney and professor at George Washington University Law School.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 12, 2024

” That headline in a recent column in the New York Times warned Americans of a menace lurking around them and threatening their livelihoods and very lives. Starting in secondary schools, we have raised a generation of speech phobics who believe that opposing views are triggering and dangerous. Wait, there is more.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

Below is my column in the New York Post on the growing attacks on those who are challenging the alleged abuses by the FBI and the censorship system on social media. It is far more menacing when this attack comes from the country’s largest law enforcement agency. For the rest of us, it would be a brave new nightmare.”

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JonathanTurley

JULY 8, 2022

Below is my column in the New York Post on the recent cancel campaign targeting Associate Justice Clarence Thomas. It was always doubtful that a law school would take the unprecedented step of barring a sitting Supreme Court justice. Here is the column: Clarence Thomas last week became cancel culture’s latest target.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 1, 2024

The controversial law came up in oral arguments over the access to the abortion pill in the Supreme Court. That 151-year-old law banned the mailing of materials that were deemed “obscene, lewd, [or] lascivious.” For some of us, this is a painful reminder that the law continues to linger on our books.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 25, 2022

The latest such attack came from two professors in the New York Times in a column titled The Constitution Is Broken and Should Not Be Reclaimed. That is good news. The problem is that many on the left have turned their ire on the Constitution itself as the root of all evil in our country.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Below is my column in the Wall Street Journal on the growing counter-constitutional movement in the United States. This assault on the Constitution is being led by law professors who have lost their faith in the defining principles and institutions of our Republic. Others have railed against individual rights.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 24, 2023

In a recent open letter, Harvard law professor Mark Tushnet and San Francisco State University political scientist Aaron Belkin called upon President Joe Biden to defy rulings of the Supreme Court that he considers “mistaken” in the name of “popular constitutionalism.” Constitution “trash” and argued that we should simply just dump it.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 31, 2023

Below is my column in The Messenger on the passing of one of the greatest figures in human rights law, my former colleague Tom Buergenthal. With the passing of Thomas Buergenthal , I lost a mentor, a colleague and a friend, and the world lost a towering figure of international law who helped to create the field of human rights law.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 2, 2024

University of Michigan Law Professor and MSNBC legal analyst Barbara McQuade has written how dangerous free speech is for the nation. Recently, the New York Times ran a column by former Biden official and Columbia University law professor Tim Wu describing how the First Amendment was “out of control” in protecting too much speech.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 3, 2023

In other countries, this crackdown on comedy is being enforced by the state through criminal and human rights laws. Comedians are being prosecuted under hate-speech laws in various countries that criminalize mocking any group or identity. In Brazil, comedian Danilo Gentili was prosecuted for implying a politician was a prostitute.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 30, 2021

New York State Democrat Senator Brad Holyman is one of those “men of zeal.” 6th riots, he has proposed a new law that would legislate an even greater level of censorship to prevent the “social media amplification” of views that are deemed harmful or “disinformation.”

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Ohio , Goldman cut me off and said, “ We don’t need a law class here.” In the vice presidential debate, Walz showed that he and other Democratic leaders most certainly do need a class in First Amendment law. Others are laying the groundwork for precisely that moment.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 9, 2021

The announcement fulfilled a campaign promise by the president, who last fall proposed the idea of a commission after he declined to endorse efforts by liberals to expand the Supreme Court – efforts that Justice Stephen Breyer criticized in a speech on Tuesday at Harvard Law School. Cardozo School of Law. Guy-Uriel E.

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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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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 31, 2022

From legendary lawyers to lesser-known activists, journalists, and plaintiffs, the following individuals who died in 2022 all shaped the court and the law in their own ways. In 1973, Beckwith was a recent graduate of law school and was working as a political reporter for TIME magazine. David Beckwith (Oct. 30, 1942 – Oct.

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Above The Law

JUNE 26, 2025

Earlier this week , the New York Times reported that University of Florida law professor — Trump-appointed federal judge, by the way — John L. Aside from everything else, the University of Florida law school community has… concern s. Isn’t this a law school class?

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 25, 2024

Below is my column in the New York Post on the vicious attacks being directed at Judge Aileen Cannon as she addresses pre-trial motions in the Florida prosecution of former president Donald Trump. 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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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 5, 2024

Below is my column in the New York Post on the expansion of the 14th Amendment theory to attempt to remove Republican candidates for Congress from the ballots. to disqualify members got 63 co-sponsors, all Democrats, including New York Reps. Similar legislation from Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.) praised the effort then-Sen.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 3, 2022

The column predicts that critics will likely respond to the expected new precedent by attacking the integrity rather than the interpretations of the justices. The New York Times did not wait for any new decisions and attacked the integrity of the conservative justices as the “ judicial arm of the Republican Party.”

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JonathanTurley

MAY 17, 2023

” For its part, most of the media portrayed the now-infamous Steele dossier — the original basis for the collusion claims — as true, and the New York Times and Washington Post received Pulitzer Prizes for a story that not only has been debunked but shown to be the product of Hillary’s Clinton’s presidential campaign.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 3, 2024

justices as being, in the words of law professor Cass Sunstein, “ illegitimate, undemocratic, and unprincipled.” Appeals of ballot decisions are pending in Arizona; ballot challenges are in process in Alaska, Maine , New York, New Jersey, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, South Carolina, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia and Wyoming.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 27, 2020

Now, Harvard Law Professor and Bloomberg columnist has added a Trump-like call for the use of defamation lawsuit to combat “fake news.” The standard for defamation for public figures and officials in the United States is the product of a decision over 50 years ago in New York Times v. seven times. seven times.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Below is my column in the New York Post on why the self-described “giddy” White House might want to consider the impact of a loss of one or both houses of Congress. In an August New York Times column, “The Constitution Is Broken and Should Not Be Reclaimed,” law professors Ryan D.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Constitution “trash” and argued that we should simply just dump it. In a New York Times column, “The Constitution Is Broken and Should Not Be Reclaimed,” law professors Ryan D. According to these law professors the problem is not just our Constitution, but constitutionalism in general.

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