JonathanTurley

AUGUST 22, 2021

Even law professors are largely silent on the implications of a finding that the shooting of an unarmed protester is justified. Violent riots are unfortunately common today in cities ranging from Minneapolis to Portland to Washington. Will the Babbitt standard now apply. Reasonable people could disagree on the shooting.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 5, 2022

The leak in the abortion case was a despicable act that shocked even the most cynical in Washington. The court has lost a type of institutional innocence in maintaining confidentiality through decades of hard-fought and heated legal disputes. Wade as the law of the land in this country NOW. Wade and decades of precedent.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 30, 2021

Recently, I was critical of a Washington Post column by University of California-Berkeley Dean Erwin Chemerinsky and Professor Aaron S. Edlin, who argued for a legal challenge of the recall election of Callifornia Gov. However, Fitzgerald saw no constitutional barrier to the citizens of California creating such a system.

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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. Stories often present a distorted account of the constitutional debate in echoing the views of those advocating for judicial or legislative intervention to give D.C. statehood.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

The Washington Post has been criticized for running a column by Aaron Tang , professor of law at the University of California at Davis, claiming an originalist basis for the right to abortion. The column makes highly dubious claims over the legality of early stage abortions and the likely understanding of the Framers of such a right.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 31, 2022

In Grutter, the court voted 5-4 to uphold the UM law school’s admissions system that evaluated applicants based on individual merit but used race as a “plus factor.” Whatever value a test-blind system may have academically, it could be impactful legally. To do so, they must curtail or overturn the 2003 decision in Grutter v.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 5, 2022

We largely agree on areas of possible reforms, including the potential dangers of registration laws like FARA for free speech and association. Senior Legal Advisor, U.S. Program, International Center for Not-For-Profit Law. Here is the panel: Mr. Dylan Hedtler-Gaudette. Mr. Nick Robinson. Dr. Jacob R. Mr. Jonathan Turley.

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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. Ending standardized testing will have a notable impact on legal challenges to the use of race in college admissions.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 26, 2022

There are laws that can be crafted within the confines set out under controlling Supreme Court precedent. However, as discussed in a column , President Biden continues to ignore those constitutional limitations in blaming the gun lobby and political opponents for these deaths. That is simply untrue.

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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

DECEMBER 8, 2020

I have tremendous respect for many on the other side of this debate including former Judge Michael Luttig, who just penned a thoughtful column in the Washington Post arguing against such self-pardons. ” The King of England was long held to “do no wrong” legally as a matter of immunity.

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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

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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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

He was charged with (and later acquitted of) a felony under an Ohio law prohibiting the use of a computer to “disrupt” or “interrupt” police functions. It was a tour-de-force on the value of satire to make profound legal and political points. Image from Supreme Court Petition. Follow him on Twitter @JonathanTurley.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 12, 2022

President Biden’s repeated accounts of his Amtrak conductor , truck driving past , and other stories have long been the subject of jokes in Washington. It does sound bizarre because it is factually and legally untrue. Even the Washington Post has declared Biden’s understanding of the Second Amendment to be false.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 11, 2023

While the Administration insists that it complied with a law that required Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra to make the reappointments personally, it later issued a retroactive reappointment for most of the directors after months of congressional inquiry. That, too, is not allowed under federal law.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 27, 2023

million were sent to a law firm and another firm associated with Hunter Biden. ” (He did not explain why a message legally acquired by the government from the cloud account of his client would be illegal to include in the report of a congressional investigatory committee.) I am sitting here waiting for the call with my father.’”

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 15, 2022

It began with a decision to drop admissions standards to achieve greater diversity, and now there is a fair possibility that this small high school will be the subject of a Supreme Court challenge with far-reaching legal, educational and social implications. Follow him on Twitter @JonathanTurley.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 30, 2023

Yet, even after the Washington Post declared Biden’s understanding of the Second Amendment to be false, he has continued to make the same false assertion over and over again. The claim was again historically and legally ridiculous even if one opposed these state laws. That happens to be utterly false.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 6, 2021

I have been a vocal critic of Feres for decades and wrote a three-part study of the military legal system 20 years ago that detailed how this doctrine began in 1950 with a clearly erroneous reading of the Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA). The West Point case shows the legal lunacy and lethality of this doctrine.

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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. Will , Pulitzer Prize winner and Washington Post columnist. The Indispensable Right is an indispensable book.” Jim Webb , former Democratic U.S.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 13, 2022

This may reflect confusion among these doctors, but the law seems clear on the available exceptions. It should not violate HIPPA or other laws to confirm that a report was filed and the victim has been protected by authorities. .” Indiana law also requires medical professionals like Dr. Bernard to report such cases.

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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. Will , Pulitzer Prize winner and Washington Post columnist. The Indispensable Right is an indispensable book.” Jim Webb , former Democratic U.S.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 11, 2022

justice system and reduce mass incarceration, argues a Washington and Lee University law professor. Expansion of the jury trial right would constitute a meaningful structural reform in democratizing criminal justice, at a time when such change is needed to establish the popular legitimacy of the criminal justice system,” writes J.D.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

4] The Washington Post and other media outlets have also declared the President’s insistence that his family did not take money from China as false. [5] 13] Some of the deals negotiated by Hunter involved potential benefits for his father, including office space in Washington. [14] Post, Apr. 27, 2023. [13] 27, 2023. [14] 11, 2023.

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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. Will , Pulitzer Prize winner and Washington Post columnist. The Indispensable Right is an indispensable book.” Jim Webb , former Democratic U.S.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Texas on the request for an emergency injunction in Texas to block the state’s controversial abortion law. The merits of the law are not at issue in the questions presented today but the decision to push for an injunction comes with some risks for the Biden Administration. Jackson and United States v.

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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. The history of the Act, and its namesake, remains a blot on our legal system. That 151-year-old law banned the mailing of materials that were deemed “obscene, lewd, [or] lascivious.” Some Democratic members, such as Rep.

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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. Read past years’ remembrances: 2021 , 2020.

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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

JULY 16, 2024

Indeed, law professors and legal experts are demanding the removal of Cannon for having the temerity to adopt an opposing view of the underlying constitutional claim. Nevertheless, legal experts were incredulous and irate. Nevertheless, legal experts were incredulous and irate.

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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. Depp is suing Heard for $50 million based largely on an 2018 Washington Post opinion piece where she described herself a survivor of domestic and sexual violence.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

One issue to watch is how Judge Bruce Schroeder handles the gun count, which is based on what I believe is a flawed legal interpretation by the prosecution. Here is the column: The trial of Kyle Rittenhouse increasingly seems like a legal version of the parable of the blind men and the elephant. Biased media viewers.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

The oral argument is scheduled for December 1st, the same week that the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit will hear an expedited appeal over the even more stringent Texas abortion law. Indeed, the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was a critic of Roe , seeing it as too sweeping in supplanting state laws.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 17, 2021

The bills are the latest examples of “gotcha legislation,” though the Florida bill could raise some interesting legal questions if Gov. In California, Newsom pledged to re-purpose the Texas “heartbeat law” to limit gun rights. Both proposals face serious legal challenges and likely could not survive as codified soundbites.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 30, 2021

Issues long debated over other grounds — the Senate’s filibuster rule , voter ID laws , even standardized testing , math , statistics and meritocracy — have all been reframed as a choice between racism and equality. It is even dangerous today to observe that any given legal problem is not a problem of racism.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Below is my column in the Hill on New York’s latest gun control measure — and the latest challenge to a New York law. The reason is that these legislative measure are propelled by political rather than legal judgment. The gun nuisance law is the latest in a long line of mistakes by New York. City of New York.

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