JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

I am happy to announce the publication of my latest law review article, The Unfinished Masterpiece: Compulsion and the Evolving Jurisprudence Over Free Speec h. Board of Trustees of North Carolina State University. The article is the outgrowth of remarks that I gave a Maryland Law School at a Supreme Court symposium.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 24, 2021

However, there is a new ruling out of North Carolina that could present another opportunity for the Court to revisit the issue. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina just ruled that UNC can use race criteria to guarantee a “critical mass” of minority students in its classes. .”

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Law schools are also facing controversial mandates. In 2022, the American Bar Association required law schools to “provide education to law students on bias, cross-cultural competency, and racism: (1) at the start of the program of legal education, and (2) at least once again before graduation.” He later apologized.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

She subsequently reported Counterman to law enforcement. Law enforcement arrested Counterman on May 12, 2016, and charged him one count of stalking (credible threat), section 18-3-602(1)(b) ; one count of stalking (serious emotional distress), section 18-3-602(1)(c) ; and one count of harassment, section 18-9-111(1)(e), C.R.S.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 31, 2022

University of North Carolina. University of North Carolina. The Harvard and North Carolina cases raise long-standing objections that universities are gaming the system by using ambiguous “critical mass” arguments on diversity to achieve the same results as formal quota systems. In Gratz v.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 26, 2022

The Court’s resolution of admissions challenges at Harvard and the University of North Carolina may bring greater clarity in the area. The Court is considering two major college admissions cases , which also allege racial discrimination against Asian students.

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Above The Law

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

appeared first on Above the Law. ‘What a relief to have nothing to say, the right to say nothing, because only then is there a chance of framing the rare, or ever rarer, the thing that might be worth saying.’ - Gilles Deleuze, Negotiations The post Hey Judge, I Thought That State-Compelled Speech Was A No No?

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 20, 2021

We recently discussed the case of University of North Carolina law student Sagar Sharma, a student of color, who faced a recall election as the first-year class co-president. The charges are connected to the prior controversy and raise serious free speech and retaliatory concerns at the law school. .

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 4, 2023

the University of North Carolina between Justice Amy Coney Barrett and David Hinojosa is the director of the Educational Opportunities Project at the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law: JUSTICE BARRETT: One question.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 30, 2021

We still believe that no one is above the law — including those who are rich, famous and powerful.”. Moreover, Steele is right, “no one is above the law” including prosecutors who are not allowed to pursue convictions at any cost in popular high-profile cases. It must be done under common law, which is challenging.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 10, 2023

University of North Carolina. However, it also means that other faculty are barred due to their race or sexual orientation or identity.Title VI of the Civil Rights Act prohibits “discrimination based on race, color or national origin in programs or activities that receive Federal financial assistance.”The Bakke (1978).

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 15, 2022

The Court’s consideration of admissions challenges at Harvard and the University of North Carolina may bring greater clarity for higher education. Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University. Done: Instant equity. Follow him on Twitter @JonathanTurley.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 31, 2024

There is a curious resolution of a civil right complaint against University of Minnesota Law School over a diversity fellowship sponsored by the law firm of Jones Day. Despite being created by a law firm and administered by a law school, the fellowship violated federal law in excluding white and male applicants.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 7, 2023

That is not the case with a mathematical challenge raised to the dissent of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson in the North Carolina affirmative action case. For marginalized communities in North Carolina, it is critically important that UNC and other area institutions produce highly educated professionals of color.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 8, 2023

The United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit has delivered a body blow to free speech as well as academic freedom in a ruling against a statistics professor at North Carolina State University. Board of Trustees of University of North Carolina State University. Thacker’s ruling in Porter v.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 27, 2022

Sullivan , and whether to take up a redistricting case from North Carolina that could upend federal elections. The post Justices agree to hear technical bankruptcy case but won’t reconsider pillar of defamation law appeared first on SCOTUSblog. The justices denied review in Coral Ridge Ministries Media v.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Elenis: A web designer challenging Colorado’s public accommodations law after declining to provide services for the marriages of same-sex couples. University of North Carolina: Challenges to the use of race as a criterion in college admissions. Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard College/Students for Fair Admissions v.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Harper , an elections case out of North Carolina that involves how much oversight state courts may exercise over federal elections. Constitution assigns the task of redistricting to state legislatures. In accordance with this duty, the North Carolina General Assembly drew new congressional districts in response to the 2020 U.S.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

APRIL 4, 2022

The issues before the Court included challenges to North Carolina’s voter ID law, the waiver of arbitration agreements, and international child custody disputes. The post SCOTUS Hears Oral Arguments in Four Cases appeared first on Constitutional Law Reporter. Please check back for updates.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

This hearing returned the impeachment process to a type of regular order in reserving judgment until all of the evidence could be acquired by the three committees.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 30, 2022

Bollinger declared an expectation that affirmative action would no longer be necessary in 25 years — a self-imposed expiration date that would be unheard of in any other area of constitutional law. The law also created a preference for Native children to be placed with other Native families if they are removed from their homes.

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 28, 2022

Apart from time spent criticizing the majority opinion, lengthy dissents can be used to lay the groundwork for future case law – as we saw among the conservative justices’ dissents in every abortion-related case between Roe and Dobbs. These observations are not a new phenomenon. In the coming term, the justices are slated to hear Moore v.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 21, 2023

There is a spirited debate growing among law professors over the claim that former president Donald Trump is disqualified under the 14th Amendment from holding office. Various law professors have argued that Trump is already barred, even without a charge or conviction for insurrection or even incitement. 6 attack on the U.S.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 8, 2022

It was always doubtful that a law school would take the unprecedented step of barring a sitting Supreme Court justice. It’s not an unfamiliar position for the Supreme Court justice, but it generated surprising support at a leading law school. Jonathan Turley is an attorney and professor at George Washington University Law School.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

Elenis : A web designer challenging Colorado’s public accommodations law after declining to provide services for the marriages of same-sex couples. University of North Carolina : Challenges to the use of race as a criterion in college admissions. I will also discuss some of the upcoming cases including: 303 Creative v.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 5, 2021

She was also left off the starters in the next game against North Carolina. She was pulled as a starters in the next game against Clemson and again Adair allegedly berated her publicly. She claims that the abuse and shunning became so great that she was forced to resign. One issue may be that she elected to resign.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

JANUARY 3, 2023

Harper , the Court considered a contentious elections law dispute involving how much oversight state courts may exercise over federal elections. In seeking to reinstate their map, Republican North Carolina legislators argue that lawsuits alleging partisan gerrymandering are barred in both federal and state courts.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 30, 2023

Indeed, the rulings in cases involving Harvard and the University of North Carolina ended decades of muddled 5-4 decisions. Yet, President Joe Biden seemed to go into full attack mode and actually claimed that the Court gutted the constitutional guarantee that “all men and women are created equal.”

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JonathanTurley

JULY 8, 2021

This trend has reached law schools, which is ominous since these students are the future judges and lawyers who are expected to defend these core principles. From high schools through law schools, free speech has gone from being considered a right that defines our society to being dismissed as a threat.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 14, 2021

Here is what I precisely wrote on the Blount and Belknap impeachment in The Executive Function Theory, The Hamilton Affair, And Other Constitutional Mythologies , 77 North Carolina Law Review 1791 (1999): 1. I have written about these impeachments in various academic works. William Blount (1798-99). … 7.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 12, 2024

University of Michigan Law Professor and MSNBC legal analyst Barbara McQuade has written how dangerous free speech is for the nation. Recently, the New York Times ran a column by former Biden official and Columbia University law professor Tim Wu describing how the First Amendment was “out of control” in protecting too much speech.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 7, 2022

Share The Supreme Court on Monday refused to block orders by courts in North Carolina and Pennsylvania that threw out the congressional maps enacted by the states’ Republican legislatures and replaced them with maps drawn by the trial courts. The North Carolina case. The North Carolina dispute, Moore v.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 12, 2022

In a series of tweets this week, Professor Heidi Li Feldman has denounced “lawless” and “actively rogue” Supreme Court justices and professors who disagree with her views on the Constitution. She has called for “genuine” law professors not to fall “into complicity with lawlessness” in teaching such subjects.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 27, 2022

University of North Carolina. To quote Ginsburg, with three justices previously voting against such race-based criteria and the three Trump appointees, “that’s about as solid as you can get” for a major reframing of the controlling case law. President & Fellows of Harvard and Students for Fair Admissions v.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 8, 2022

Last week, many of us initially celebrated the reinstatement of the Center for the Constitution Director Ilya Shapiro as a belated but important victory for free speech and academic freedom. Indeed, it is not clear why this took months if the law school is saying that he was not subject to the school’s standards at the time of his tweet.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

A professor at the University of North Carolina recently sent me an article on a “free speech event” held at the UNC Center for Media Law and Policy as part of the University’s 13th First Amendment Day celebration. Law schools routinely hold panels on cases like Dobbs v. This is hardly unique.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 18, 2021

In my 1999, Duke Law Journal article on impeachment, I wrote that “[t]he Senate majority, however, was correct in its view that impeachments historically extended to former officials, such as Warren Hastings.” This has remained an open question and much contested in the United States as I noted in my later North Carolina article.

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