JonathanTurley

JULY 2, 2022

We have previously discussed how New York has proven the gift that keeps on giving for gun rights advocates. New York Democrats have passed a series of laws that led to catastrophic losses in federal court, including the recent major ruling in in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Paxton , involves the constitutionality of a Texas law that requires any website that publishes content one-third or more of which is harmful to minors to verify the age of every user before permitting access. They contend that the law impermissibly encroaches on their First Amendment rights. New York , 390 U.S.

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Above The Law

JULY 8, 2022

If You Can't Stand The Heat, Get Out Through The Kitchen : Morton's Steakhouse helped Brett Kavanaugh run away through the back door when protesters arrived at a restaurant and then offered its own hilariously bad take on constitutional law. — See Also appeared first on Above the Law. Because that's the logic here.

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The Crime Report

MARCH 14, 2022

Police commissioner Keechant Sewell said the officers had been through “an extensive amount of vetting,” and other top police officials said that each officer would complete seven days of training on subjects that included the use of force, constitutional law and community interactions.

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AUGUST 11, 2022

Every year, law schools advertise open faculty positions via a Faculty Appointments Register sponsored by the American Association of Law Schools (AALS). Note that top ranked law schools rarely advertise for particular subject matter areas. The new hire then starts work the following summer. by Dennis Crouch.

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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

JULY 12, 2021

Below is my column in the Hill newspaper on the declaration of a gun violence emergency by New York Gov. The centerpiece of Cuomo’s plan is a new law to allow victims of gun violence to sue gun manufacturers under a nuisance theory. It has failed repeatedly in various states, including New York. Of the $138.7

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JonathanTurley

MAY 9, 2021

There is an interesting First Amendment case brewing in New York after an appellate ruled that a mother identified as Christie could lose custody of her daughter unless she removes a rock with a small confederate flag image on it in the driveway.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

I have previously written about how New York has proven time and time again as the gift that keeps on giving for the National Rifle Association (NRA) and gun-rights groups. New York Democrats continue to pass laws that are virtually guaranteed to be struck down and further reinforce Second Amendment rights.

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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. Suddaby issued a temporary restraining order against a substantial part of the law, including barring the provisions previously discussed as presumptively unconstitutional.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 22, 2025

I am happy to announce that I will be speaking today at Colgate University in New York on my book, The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage , at 4:30. The event will be held at Little Hall, Golden Auditorium, Little Hall, Colgate University, Hamilton, New York.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

AUGUST 13, 2024

Supreme Court upheld a federal law that prohibits individuals subject to a domestic violence restraining order from possessing a gun. While Rahimi’s case was on appeal, the Supreme Court decided New York State Rifle & Pistol Assn., In United States v. Rahimi , 602 U.S. _ (2024), the U.S. Bruen , 597 U.S.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 23, 2022

As predicted , the Supreme Court handed down a momentous opinion in favor of Second Amendment rights today in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. Penal Law § 400.00(2)(f) ” New York Gov. ” New York Gov. Hochul added “This is New York. We don’t back down.”

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

New York State Rifle Association v. Penal Law § 400.00(2)(f) 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.”

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Constitutional Law Reporter

JUNE 5, 2023

Supreme Court rejected a constitutional challenge to a California animal welfare law that requires pork sold in the state to come from humanely raised pigs. According to the Court, the law did not violate the dormant commerce clause in regulating the pork industry outside California. New York State Liquor Authority , 476 U.S.

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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

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

JULY 6, 2022

Georgetown University Law School Professor Rosa Brooks has drawn accolades and criticism for her appearance on MSNBC’s “The ReidOut” after declaring that Americans are “slaves” to the U.S. Constitution and that the Constitution itself is now the problem for the country. Bruen: . “I This is 100% us.”

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 19, 2023

Much has been made of the decision of the Supreme Court to reject a request for an injunction of a New York law limiting gun rights. New York Attorney General Letitia James went public to celebrate the “decision” while saying that the “gun safety laws help save lives, and keep our state safer.”

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 12, 2021

In their guest essay for the New York Times Chemerinsky and Edlin declare any such successful recall would be unconstitutional as a denial of the principle of “one person, one vote.” At that point, Newsom was neither governor nor a candidate under California law after the first round. Sanders and Reynolds v.

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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

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

We have been discussing ( here and here and here ) the Supreme Court challenge in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association Inc. 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.”

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Constitutional Law Reporter

DECEMBER 6, 2023

In the wake of the country’s most recent mass shooting, the justices considered a case that could overturn a federal gun law. Rahimi, challenges a federal law prohibiting the possession of a firearm by anyone who is the subject of a domestic violence restraining order. The case, United States v. Bruen , 597 U.S. _ (2022). 1681 et seq.,

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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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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

MARCH 19, 2024

” While the Supreme Court in New York State Rifle & Pistol Ass’n v. The majority of Defendants’ citations come at least 20 years after the enactment of the Fourteenth Amendment, which the Bruen decision gave less weight, and considered to the extent it was consistent with earlier law. ” New York Democratic Gov.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 9, 2023

First, let’s look at the law. The California provision states that kidnapping involves someone who “abducts or takes by force or fraud any person contrary to the law of the place where that act is committed, and brings, sends, or conveys that person within the limits of this state.”

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 18, 2022

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. Mystal responded to Cross’ claim that the trip constitute “kidnapping” with a diatribe against “Republican fascists.”

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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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JonathanTurley

JULY 23, 2024

The opinion by Judge Duane Benton upholds a lower court in striking down a Minnesota law limiting gun permits for persons 21 years old. Minnesota has joined states like New York and Illinois in advancing weak arguments to the benefit of gun rights advocates. They are clearly “people” under the Constitution.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 23, 2022

As various states move to pass controversial new gun control laws after the decision in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, one such law was just enjoined by a federal court in Colorado. and Wyoming, correctly found that the law clearly ran afoul of the controlling precedent.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Now Lamberth has cleared the way for claims for damages by as many as 4,500 people similarly arrested under the law the courts overturned in 2014. The city could appeal and argue that, at the time of the arrests, it was not clear that the underlying law was unconstitutional. Those rising costs do not seem to register with the D.C.

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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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Constitutional Law Reporter

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

New York: The case centers of the Sixth Amendment’s Confrontation Clause and its relationship to a rule of evidence known as “door opening,” under which a litigant’s argumentation or introduction of evidence at trial is often deemed to “open the door” to the admission of responsive evidence that would otherwise be barred by the rules of evidence.

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NewYorkCourtWatcher

JULY 1, 2023

Wilson, Opening RemarksSenate Confirmation Hearing, April 17, 2023 At Columbia Law SchoolIn previous posts in this series, we reviewed Rowan Wilson's eventual selection to sit on New York's highest court in 2016 by then-Governor Andrew Cuomo, and his nomination to be Chief Judge this past April by Chief Judge Rowan D.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Rahimi, will decide whether a federal law banning the possession of guns by individuals who are subject to domestic violence restraining orders is constitutional. Supreme Court decided New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. The case, United States v. While that petition was pending, the U.S.

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