JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Some of us have repeatedly said that the lawsuit would not succeed despite various law professors filing a brief supporting the underlying claims. statehood, however, and does not preclude Congress from passing a law that would grant the District a vote in the national legislature.” It had nothing to do with statehood.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Penal Law § 400.00(2)(f) Lower courts have upheld the New York law, but there are ample constitutional concerns over its vague standard, such as showing that you are “of good moral character.” City of Chicago , the court ruled that this right applied against the states. 2)(f) that require a showing of “proper cause.”

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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

AUGUST 3, 2021

Indeed, if these were truly protected as rights, our government would be obligated to ensure basic access to them through entitlement programs or legal protection.” They are correct that there are legal protections for such rights. Virginia , 75 U.S.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 8, 2021

School staff shall, at the request of a student or parent/legal guardian, when using a name or pronoun to address the student, use the name and pronoun that correspond to their gender identity.”. Better yet, it could work out a compromise to protect free speech rights. Yet, this is “when using a name or pronounce to address the student.”

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LexForti

JULY 26, 2021

In another more recent case, a complaint was launched against actor Amitabh Bachchan for singing the national anthem for 1 min 22 sec instead of the 52 seconds as prescribed by our law. But they are not laws. Asian countries including Singapore and Malaysia have their own specific national anthem law.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 14, 2022

.'” Captain Jack Sparrow’s clarification in the movie Pirates of the Caribbean could prove useful when actor Johnny Depp takes the stand in his defamation case in Fairfax, Virginia against his former wife, Amber Heard. ” He is now trying his hand with a Virginia jury.

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LLRX

JANUARY 9, 2022

Ken Hughes is a researcher with the Presidential Recordings Program of the University of Virginia's Miller Center. Hughes argues that erosion in American democracy depends on the conspiracy theory, destructive and demonstrably false, that the 2020 election was stolen.

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MAY 27, 2024

JP Leskovich is a rising 3L at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law and JURIST’s News Managing Editor. This is the third in a series of dispatches he’s filed as an embedded reporter for JURIST at the Model Constitutional Convention sponsored by the Center for Constitutional Design at ASU Law.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 3, 2022

After Dobbs was accepted, advocates sought to enjoin a Texas law that banned abortion after just six weeks. The court ruled 5-4 to allow the Texas law to be enforced. The court — as expected — allowed the appeal to go forward for some of the litigants in the lower court but again refused to enjoin the law.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 16, 2022

The problem is that the claims are detached from both legal and political realities. The claim is even less credible legally than it is politically. Virginia , was based on different constitutional grounds and would not be negated by this opinion. The leading case on interracial marriage, Loving v.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 28, 2021

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). statehood is a complex issue with historical, constitutional, and legal dimensions. The debate over D.C.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

AUGUST 4, 2021

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. Washington Supreme Court Said Climate Activist Was Entitled to Present Necessity Defense Based on Evidence that Legal Alternatives Were Not “Truly Reasonable”.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 24, 2021

The legal question is whether historical disparities are enough to justify a system of race and gender preferences when all restaurants were impacted by the pandemic. In 1989, the Supreme Court ruled that a minority set-aside program in Virginia was unconstitutional under the Equal Protection Clause. Other such cases are continuing.

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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

DECEMBER 29, 2023

However, this was conduct that was both legal and conducted outside of his official duties without reference to his academic or administrative positions. It is reminiscent of the recent controversy involving Virginia Democratic candidate Susanna Gibson who was shown to have engaged in sex acts on the Internet with her husband.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 30, 2024

to reject hundreds of charges in January 6th cases for the obstruction of legal proceedings. The claim is legally absurd but politically advantageous. It now seems like the insurrection increasingly looks more like a legal case of mass trespass and unlawful entry. Members of Congress such as Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.)

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 4, 2023

The hatred for Trump is so all-encompassing that legal experts on the political left have ignored the chilling implications of this indictment. This indictment is reminiscent of the case against former Virginia Gov. But how do you prove legally that Trump truly didn’t believe his false claims? Bob McDonnell.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 27, 2022

That world is already taking shape with states crafting their laws reflecting the values of their citizens from Colorado passing a law protecting the right to abortion up to the moment of birth to Louisiana banning all abortions except in limited circumstances. Below is my Hill column on what to expect in a post-Roe world.

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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

OCTOBER 20, 2023

While appellate courts have largely ruled in favor of lower courts’ gag orders, there have long been constitutional concerns over these limits on not just the free speech rights of defendants but also their zealous representation by defense counsel. Smith has long adopted extreme legal positions that ignore constitutional values.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 23, 2022

Totenberg ruled that Greene’s critics could bring a challenge under the Constitution’s 14th Amendment, known as the “Disqualification Clause.” Sheffey to hold a Virginia state court office, given his support for the Confederacy. Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

The bizarre story of Susanna Gibson and her running as a candidate for the House of Delegates has occupied much of the conversations around Virginia, where I live. Virginia State Sen. Indeed, the site shows a long-standing anomaly in our criminal law. Indeed, even the service provider itself is protected under the law.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 18, 2022

has joined the call for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to resign due to the communications of his wife, Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, with lawyer John Eastman supporting the certification challenge. Boxer was particularly ironic since she used the same underlying federal law to challenge the certification of George W.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Legal academics are divided on the new popular theory that former President Donald Trump can be removed from ballots under Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment. While I respect many of the academics who view this as a credible interpretation, I have long opposed it as textually and historically flawed.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

Once again, the media is silent on this clearly abusive use of the criminal code target members of the opposing party in their raising objections under state law. While the legal team did raise some credible electoral concerns, I was also critical of Rudy Giuliani’s global communist conspiracy claim at the press conference this week.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 20, 2023

Today’s legal-political sequel, however, may prove to be a bit more controversial. 6 allegations are far more tenuous legally. Such an indictment could come at a high legal and political cost. That speech is entirely protected under the First Amendment and governing case law, including Brandenburg v. is obvious.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

The former law professor saw little problem with a president giving away hundreds of billions of dollars. As was the case under President Obama when he circumvented Congress, Warren and others are celebrating their own constitutional obsolescence. The legal basis for this action is superficial and strikingly cynical.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 22, 2023

Their argument for it is based on Section 4 of the 14th Amendment, which states, “The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned.”

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