The Estrin Report

MARCH 16, 2025

How Trumps Upheaval is Reshaping Your Legal Career By Chere B. Initially, we envisioned a lighthearted discussion on emerging job trends in the legal field where opportunities were growing and how professionals could position themselves for success. Will You Survive? Today, I want to share that message with you.

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DECEMBER 17, 2024

Below is my column in the New York Post on the news reports that President Joe Biden is seriously considering preemptive pardons for political allies. In granting what I have called “ White Knight pardons ,” Biden would achieve more of a political than legal purpose.

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DECEMBER 17, 2024

The Supreme Court further strengthened the right in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association Inc. The AR-15 is the most popular gun in America and the number is continuing to rise rapidly, with one AR-15 purchased in every five new firearms sales. Even the U.S.

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The Volokh Conspiracy

JUNE 17, 2025

Sunday's New York Times featured an extensive profile of Justice Amy Coney Barrett. Otherwise the article offered relatively little that was new. She has the rare combination of personality and intellect, which will allow her to bring the Constitution to the people. They were raised in our legal culture.

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The Volokh Conspiracy

JULY 19, 2025

Subscribe Δ NEXT: Court Strikes Strikes Down Tennessee Law Banning "Recruit[ing]" Pregnant Minors to Get Abortions, Including Legal Out-of-State Abortions Josh Blackman is a constitutional law professor at the South Texas College of Law Houston and the President of the Harlan Institute.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 21, 2021

While it has received little coverage in the mainstream media, the conservative group Project Veritas won a major victory against the New York Times this week in a defamation case with potentially wide reach. Notably, this follows another significant loss by the New York Times to Sarah Palin last year. seven times.

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DECEMBER 19, 2024

As an academic and a legal commentator, I have sometimes disagreed with the United States Supreme Court, but I often stress the good-faith differences in how certain rights or protections are interpreted. New London. Most states prohibit this abusive practice but not New York. A] law that takes property from A.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 27, 2022

Share This article is part of a symposium on the court’s decision in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Saul Cornell is the Paul and Diane Guenther chair in American history at Fordham University and adjunct professor of law at Fordham Law School.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 10, 2021

This week, New York became the latest city to grant voting rights to non-residents – a move that could give voting rights to 800,000 non-citizens in city elections. There are roughly a dozen such cities granting voting rights across the country but there are major questions over the legality of this measure in New York.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 9, 2023

I have previously written how New York has been the gift that keeps on giving for the National Rifle Association and other gun rights groups. The latest is a ruling by the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit striking down key provisions of the law passed after the Bruen decision. New York Democratic Gov.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 7, 2022

I previously wrote about the latest New York gun law passed after the Court’s ruling in New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen and how it follows a long line of legally flawed legislative measures in the area. New York Democratic Gov. It did not take long. Hochul , No.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Lincoln Caplan is a senior research scholar and a visiting lecturer in law at Yale Law School and also teaches in Yale’s English and political science departments. Professors at the event reflected on opinions about administrative law, free speech, patents, and other topics. He profiled Breyer for Harvard Magazine in 2017.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Below is my column in the Hill on the makings of a blockbuster case in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association Inc. The court will soon take up New York State Rifle & Pistol Association Inc. The new case concerns concealed-carry restrictions under N.Y. Penal Law § 400.00(2)(f)

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 19, 2024

The rejection of the challenge to the injunction suggests that the appellate court is equally unimpressed by the legal and historical arguments put forward by the state. ” While the Supreme Court in New York State Rifle & Pistol Ass’n v. ” While the Supreme Court in New York State Rifle & Pistol Ass’n v.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 9, 2023

.” The problem, however, is that this is just like the transport of migrants to Martha’s Vineyard in September 2022, which a number of Democratic leaders and legal experts insisted was also a clear case of kidnapping and human trafficking. First, let’s look at the law. Newsom previously asked the U.S.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 18, 2022

Despite the utter lack of legal basis for these allegations, major media has continued to air such claims. This weekend, MSNBC’s Tiffany Cross and MSNBC regular (and past writer for Above the Law and the Nation) repeated the false claim that the trips constitute kidnapping. It is legally absurd. Gavin Newsom.

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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

MARCH 22, 2021

University of San Diego Law Professor Thomas Smith has been put under investigation for the use of an offensive term in a column criticizing the Chinese government and its role in the pandemic. A core value of the University of San Diego School of Law is that all members of the community must be treated with dignity and respect.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The second case centers on whether a “bump stock” – an attachment that converts a semiautomatic rifle into a fully automatic weapon – qualifies as a “machinegun” under federal law. The post SCOTUS Adds Two Additional Gun Rights Cases to Docket appeared first on Constitutional Law Reporter. Vullo The NRA alleges that Maria T.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

JUNE 25, 2024

Facts of the Case As set forth in the Court’s opinion, DFS regulates insurance companies and financial services institutions doing business in New York, and has the power to initiate investigations and civil enforcement actions, as well as to refer matters for criminal prosecution. Lockton and Chubb subsequently suspended Carry Guard.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 14, 2022

Depp earlier tried to sued a newspaper in England where the libel laws are far more favorable to those claiming defamation. It is a curious defense because it is not a legal defense. In New York Times v. Depp and Heard were married for just over a year but have already spent three times than that in litigation.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

MARCH 10, 2022

The issues before the Court involved Native American law and immigration. United States : The case involves the Constitution’s double jeopardy clause and how it applies toa prosecution in the Court of Indian Offenses. New York , No. Supreme Court recently returned to the bench for its February sitting. 20- 449 (U.S.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 18, 2024

Nadine Strossen , former president of the American Civil Liberties Union “Brilliant and intellectually honest, Jonathan Turley has few peers as a legal scholar today. 1 New York Times bestseller One Damn Thing After Another. The Indispensable Right is an indispensable book.” Jim Webb , former Democratic U.S.

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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. These false narratives have been eagerly repeated in the media despite lacking legal or factual support. Jonathan Turley is an attorney and professor at George Washington University Law School.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 13, 2021

The standard for defamation for public figures and officials in the United States is the product of a decision decades ago in New York Times v. The Supreme Court ruled that tort law could not be used to overcome First Amendment protections for free speech or the free press. Such an action would be highly unlikely to succeed.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 8, 2022

Such a law would threaten political speech and create a chilling effect for those who want to raise such concerns in contested elections. According to the Seattle Times , Inslee declared that “it should not be legal in the state of Washington for elected officials or candidates for office to willfully lie about these election results.”

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Conflict of Laws

AUGUST 31, 2021

It features: Christian Kohler , Honorary Professor at the University of Saarland, Limiting European Integration through Constitutional Law? Recent Decisions of the German Bundesverfassungsgericht and their Impact on Private International Law (in English).

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 15, 2024

Nadine Strossen , former president of the American Civil Liberties Union “Brilliant and intellectually honest, Jonathan Turley has few peers as a legal scholar today. 1 New York Times bestseller One Damn Thing After Another. The Indispensable Right is an indispensable book.” Jim Webb , former Democratic U.S.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 31, 2021

Some have called for the change to increase diversity in the schools, particularly after California voters refused to change the long ban on affirmative action in education under state law. Here is the column: The Supreme Court will decide early next month whether to take a new case on the use of race in college admissions.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Notably, California’s law expressly states that this money should not be treated as compensation for federal reparations. For example, New York and numerous other cities have declared themselves to be “sanctuaries” for undocumented immigrants yet, in recent months, have protested increasing transfers of such immigrants to their jurisdiction.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

5] The President had been aware for years that Hunter Biden and his uncle James were accused of influence peddling, including an audiotape of the President acknowledging a New York Times investigation as a threat to Hunter. [6] 16] Andrew Prokop, How Much Legal Jeopardy is Hunter Biden In?, Post, March 20, 2022. [15]

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JUNE 22, 2022

He has also declared that terms like “legal vote” are racist. He was r ecently in the news after explaining why he took a white doll away from his daughter to prevent her from breathing in “the ‘smog’ of white superiority.” However, the history of the Second Amendment contradicts these claims.

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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

JUNE 18, 2024

Nadine Strossen , former president of the American Civil Liberties Union “Brilliant and intellectually honest, Jonathan Turley has few peers as a legal scholar today. 1 New York Times bestseller One Damn Thing After Another. The Indispensable Right is an indispensable book.” Jim Webb , former Democratic U.S.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

There have been a variety of reported conflicts in school districts over curriculum changes and materials addressing racism, including the recent controversy in New York where white families were asked to chose between such “white identities” as “white supremacist” and “white traitor.”

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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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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 5, 2024

New York City Major Eric Adams announced on Thursday that he is suing bus companies for over $700 million for busing undocumented persons to the state. It is a frivolous lawsuit based on an absurd law motivated by raw hypocrisy. New York City politicians have long heralded their status as a sanctuary city.

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