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California Dreaming: Newsom’s Kidnapping Claim Against DeSantis is Long on Politics and Short on the Law

JonathanTurley

Attorney for the District of Massachusetts, announced that she was taking a look, “long and hard,” at potential charges. 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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Term limits emerge as popular proposal at latest meeting of court-reform commission

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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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Biden’s “Come on, Man” Defense Will Not Fly on Religious Freedom

JonathanTurley

Massachusetts, upholding a state small pox vaccine mandate. This week, Jessica Levinson, a clinical professor of law at Loyola Marymount Law School in Los Angeles, wrote a column for MSNBC entitled “Covid Vaccine Religious Exemptions Should Not Exist.” He cited the Supreme Court’s 1905 ruling in Jacobson v.

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Biden to create bipartisan commission on Supreme Court reform

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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. Elise Boddie, professor of law and Judge Robert L.

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AAUP Journal Solicits Papers on Conservative Intolerance on Campuses

JonathanTurley

The number of republican, conservative and libertarian faculty members have plummeted at most schools in the last twenty years. Recently, a Massachusetts history professor declared universities “right-wing institutions.” It is a bizarre claim that has appeared recently in other academic publications.

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A League of Their Own: The Rollins Decision Follows a Troubling Pattern at the DOJ

JonathanTurley

Attorney for the District of Massachusetts. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts, despite a referral from the DOJ’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG), which found evidence that she lied to investigators and may have improperly sought to influence an election. The decision follows a pattern of DOJ refusing to charge its own.