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Locked and Loaded: Supreme Court is Ready for a Showdown on the Second Amendment

JonathanTurley

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.” Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University.

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Lessons Learned In Law School

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Our Panelist: Karina Perez Ilić (KPI) [link] Silvia Amador Brett (SAB) [link] Annabelle Bichler (AB) [link] Jenna Sutter (JS) [link] Brian Mickelsen (BM) is a founding partner of Mickelsen Dalton and a dynamic trial lawyer who has litigated in 12 states. You can learn more on The Entrekin Law Firm’s personal injury page.

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Did The Biden Administration Commit to a Knowingly Unconstitutional Act? New Evidence Surfaces on the Presumed Invalidity of the Farm Debt Relief Provision

JonathanTurley

Most concerning is the litigation of legal claims that most legal experts viewed as unsustainable given recent Supreme Court precedent. However, Vilsack then proceeded to add the provision to the law while critics were denounced as effective racists. They lost as many of us predicted.

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Biden: “I Don’t Want to Emulate Trump’s Abuse of the Constitution” Despite Losing a Series of Court Fights

JonathanTurley

Despite the pledge to return to a respect for the “rule of law,” Biden openly suggested that they could use the litigation to get as much money out the door as possible before being barred by the courts. Nothing could be more damaging to the litigation and the federal courts quickly rejected the CDC and Tribe arguments.

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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. Ironically, the proposals would upend decades of civil rights litigation to defend the “one man, one vote” principle.

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“It Simply Does Not Make Any Sense”: Judge Trashes Election Lawsuit by the Elias Law Firm

JonathanTurley

The Chief Judge of the Western Direct of Wisconsin, James Peterson (an Obama appointee), did not just reject but ridiculed the Elias Law Group challenge to a witness requirement for absentee voting. Elias has been sanctioned in past litigation. The state statute under § 6.87(2) 2) describes what the witness must certify.

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“A Sad Day”: How the Colorado Disqualification Case is Bringing Back Some Bad Memories for the Supreme Court

JonathanTurley

It would then depend on the Maine litigation to bring the matter back to the Court. Here is the column: It is “a sad day for America and the Constitution when a court decides the outcome of an election.” justices as being, in the words of law professor Cass Sunstein, “ illegitimate, undemocratic, and unprincipled.”

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