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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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 6, 2023

There are 33 states with retraction statutes. Missouri does not appear to have a formal retraction law, but it is still considered a necessary step. In New York Times v. Hill , which held that a family suing Life Magazine for false light must shoulder the burden of the actual malice standard under New York Times v.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

DECEMBER 19, 2022

United States , which involves the scope of a key federal bribery law. In convicting Joseph Percoco, who served as campaign manager for New York Gov. In conflict with the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, the Ninth Circuit affirmed, holding the Quiet Title Act’s statute of limitations is jurisdictional.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 9, 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. For Civil Rights Under Law, Inc. 47 U.S.C. §

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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

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Those arguments are based on both the constitutional protection of religious values but also laws like Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, 42 U.S.C. In New York, the state is appealing a preliminary injunction against its refusal to allow religious exemptions to its vaccine mandate.

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JUNE 27, 2022

Share This article is part of a symposium on the court’s decision in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Barnett is the Patrick Hotung professor of constitutional law at the Georgetown University Law Center and the faculty director of the Georgetown Center for the Constitution.

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 21, 2021

But the group does support a constitutional amendment imposing 18-year term limits and allowing each sitting president to fill two seats per four-year term, although the group believes that term limits imposed by statute would pose constitutional issues. Gabe Roth, executive director of Fix the Court, presented a different view.

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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

JANUARY 14, 2024

District Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle has ruled that the federal law prohibiting people from possessing firearms inside post offices is unconstitutional. The ruling is based on 2022 Supreme Court ruling New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. In Florida, U.S. 18 U.S.C. § 18 U.S.C. § That is all.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

The opinion is most notable for its exploration of the historical analogues supporting the rule, as required under New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. 922(g)(8), a specific statute that does so, is constitutional under the Second Amendment of the United States Constitution.” Heller, 554 U.S.

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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. What is most striking in reviewing the line of gun cases coming out of New York is that the Empire State has done more for gun rights than any “pro-gun” state.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Under Section 134-25 of the Hawaii Revised Statutes, “all firearms” must be “confined to the possessor’s place of business, residence, or sojourn.” Supreme Court issued its decision in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. The Constitution is not a “suicide pact.”

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 26, 2024

Below is my column in the New York Post on yesterday’s oral arguments on presidential immunity. If the justices want insight into the implications of denying any immunity, they just need to look north to New York City. The government insisted there is an exception for such acts from the murder statute.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 9, 2023

Newsom cited the kidnapping statute but apparently failed to read it or the underlying cases. First, let’s look at the law. Moreover, it is not clear how transporting migrants who entered the country illegally to another state is a violation of law.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 16, 2024

Below is my column in the New York Post on the opinion of Judge Aileen Cannon. 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. She is allowed to reach a different conclusion on a matter of law.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The Duke of York is arguing that Giuffre was too old at the time of the alleged sexual acts to use the New York Child Victims Act (CVA) to “revive” her claims now. The law is needed because Giuffre’s action against Prince Andrew would be otherwise time-barred. Prince Andrew argues that.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 13, 2022

Tisch Professor of Law, New York University Law School, and a senior lecturer at the University of Chicago. Regrettably, too many First Amendment experts, like George Washington Law School Professor Jonathan Turley , have adopted what I termed a generation ago First Amendment exceptionalism. 10, 17 (1963).

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 25, 2021

The case is brought under statutes like 18 U.S.C. Supreme Court ruled against a provision of federal law that banned computer simulations and virtual pornography under the first amendment. In New York Times v. This is such a case in my view. In 2002, the U.S. In Ashcroft v.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 31, 2022

After the Dobbs decision, each state may establish its own laws on abortion services. Petty has clearly alleged that her reputation has been harmed by the portrayal in the ad, which is being used to push a constitutional amendment that she vehemently opposes. In New York Times v. Petty would need to show harm.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 24, 2024

Here is the column: In 1976, Saul Steinburg’s hilarious “View of the World from 9th Avenue” was published on the cover of the New Yorker. The map showed Manhattan occupying most of the known world with wilderness on the other side of the Hudson River between New York and San Francisco. In Gonzalez v.

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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. By Margaret Barry and Korey Silverman-Roati. and non-U.S. climate litigation charts. If you know of any cases we have missed, please email us at columbiaclimate@gmail.com.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 11, 2021

Here is the column: When Joe Biden nominated Merrick Garland to be attorney general, many — including me — heralded Garland as an honorable, apolitical judge who would follow the law. Garland has indeed followed the law, but some are not thrilled by where it has taken him.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

” The lawsuit is novel and would create new law, if successful. The complaint alleges that the defendants sought to “obstruct a constitutional proceeding by intimidating and retaliating against a key witness.” The question is whether that is political speech or an actual violation of federal law.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 3, 2023

The law is only a few pages long and was intended to assist military personnel deployed abroad in combat zones. The idea of using that law in order to avoid getting congressional approval for such a massive expenditure was laughable. It is rather through a different statute , the Higher Education Act of 1965.

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The Crime Report

MAY 24, 2021

New York Attorney General Letitia James’ announcement last week that her office was “actively investigating the Trump Organization in a criminal capacity” has added to the former president’s legal worries, but the biggest landmine believed to threaten his political future has yet to be detonated. and conviction?Trump

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 21, 2020

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. This proposal would decouple voting rights from cases and statutes designed to protect the equality of voting. t is ours, too. It must be ours.”.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Ironically, last night, Hillary Clinton made reference to this standard in suggesting that she might be able to sue Fox News for its coverage of the Durham investigation. It is considered a sacrilege to even raise the possibility of reexamining the legacy of New York Times v. Devin Nunes, R-Calif. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 11, 2024

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. The state statute under § 6.87(2) The statute first sets forth in two sentences what the voter must certify on the ballot envelope.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

New York Times columnist (and my former classmate at The University of Chicago) David Brooks said this week that the corruption scandal “merits an inquiry. Here is the column: In both the law and psychology, the concept of “willful blindness” is a long-recognized pattern of human conduct.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 1, 2024

Below is a slightly expanded version of my column in the New York Post on the verdict in the Trump trial. The charges were built on a dead misdemeanor barred with the passage of the statute of limitations. Jonathan Turley is an attorney and professor at George Washington University Law School. We are better than this.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 25, 2024

Below is my column in the New York Post on the vicious attacks being directed at Judge Aileen Cannon as she addresses pre-trial motions in the Florida prosecution of former president Donald Trump. Attorneys be appointed under statute or nominated by the president (and confirmed by the Senate). and Dianne Feinstein (D-Cal.).

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