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The lives they lived and the court they shaped: Remembering those we lost in 2022

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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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Roe Redux: Is The Viability Test Still Viable as a Constitutional Doctrine?

JonathanTurley

The Washington Post confirmed that the United States is one of only seven out of the world’s 198 countries that allow for abortions after the 20th week of pregnancy.). The court ruled 5-4 to allow the Texas law to be enforced. Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University.

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Protests and “First Amendment Exceptionalism”: A Response to Professor Richard Epstein

JonathanTurley

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. 10, 17 (1963).

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

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Newsom cited the kidnapping statute but apparently failed to read it or the underlying cases. 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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“Vote Reparations”: Law Professor Calls For The Votes of Black Americans To Count Twice

JonathanTurley

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. This proposal would decouple voting rights from cases and statutes designed to protect the equality of voting. t is ours, too.

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“The Illegality…Was Obvious”: An Analysis of the Carter Opinion on Jan. 6th

JonathanTurley

The Washington Post was quick to breathlessly declare that the time had finally come. Judge Carter notes that Eastman still believes that the statute is unconstitutional as written. The declarations by the court have led to a frenzy in the media and renewed calls for the prosecution of the former president.

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Have You Seen This Man? Biden Special Counsel Robert Hur Appears to Have Vanished

JonathanTurley

Classified documents have been discovered in Biden’s possession at several locations, hundreds of miles apart, ranging from a prior office in Washington, D.C., Lying to investigators is itself a federal crime — removing any questions over statutes of limitation. to his home and his garage in Delaware.