Constitutional Law Reporter

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

However, the Court remanded the cases back to the lower courts after concluding that neither court properly analyzed “the facial First Amendment challenges” to the laws. Both laws also include individualized-explanation provisions, requiring a platform to give reasons to a user if it removes or alters her posts.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 7, 2022

It would impose reporting, training, and assessment of “the domestic terrorism threat posed by White supremacists and neo-Nazis, including White supremacist and neo-Nazi infiltration of Federal, State, and local law enforcement agencies and the uniformed services.” Northern District of Ohio. Shapiro Professor Of Public Interest Law.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 8, 2022

Such a law would threaten political speech and create a chilling effect for those who want to raise such concerns in contested elections. Such a criminal law would be ripe for abuse and would create a chilling effect that would be positively glacial. The Inslee law would create a new and vague category for violent speech.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 3, 2024

The anti-free speech movement discussed in the book largely began in higher education and has been led by law professors and lawyers who view free speech as harmful or, as one author recently argued, the “Achilles Heel” of the United States.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

City of Pharm in which an Ohio man was prosecuted for posting a parody of his local police department. Some of us have been following the Novak case as an important free speech case after Anthony Novak was prosecuted for a parody on Facebook to mock the police department in Parma, Ohio. Image from Supreme Court Petition.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 14, 2022

There is an interesting case out of Ohio where the state Supreme Court has ruled that Lake County Common Pleas Court Judge Eugene Lucci erred when he gave Manson Bryant, 35, an added six years after Bryant called him “racist as f**k.” That sentence was upheld by an appellate court but the Ohio Supreme Court reversed in a 4-3 opinion.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

My column yesterday discussed the increasing trend to treat the failure to use a person’s preferred pronouns (called “misgendering”) a type of hate speech or discriminatory conduct. A new case highlights the free speech problems associated with the trend. In Meriwether v.

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LegalReader

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Ohio lawmakers have introduced new anti-abortion bill.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Ohio Department of Youth Service involves an Ohio woman, Marlean Ames, who claims she was discriminated against for being straight as less-qualified LGBT colleagues in Ohio’s youth corrections system were promoted. She argues “that the law as applied demands something more of her than the law as written.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 14, 2021

Both reshaped American law and society. Ask any constitutional law student to name the most iconic Supreme Court decision, and they’ll probably answer Marbury v. Marshall found the Constitution paper; and he made it power,” President James Garfield wrote. Ohio and Miranda v. It’s time for Marshall vs. Warren.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Today I have the honor of speaking to the judges and lawyers in the 2022 Ohio Judicial conference on the Supreme Court in Columbus, Ohio. Elenis: A web designer challenging Colorado’s public accommodations law after declining to provide services for the marriages of same-sex couples. Students for Fair Admissions v.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 15, 2021

The United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit this week upheld an Ohio law that bans doctors from performing abortions when they know the reason a woman is seeking an abortion is that her baby has Down syndrome. The new law, H.B. It is a major win for pro-life advocates but could face an appeal to the Supreme Court.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 12, 2023

and Jim Jordan (R-Ohio). Jonathan Turley, an attorney, constitutional law scholar and legal analyst, is the Shapiro Chair for Public Interest Law at The George Washington University Law School. Yet, not one Democrat broke ranks and voted to prevent such chaos. Steve Scalise (R-La.)

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 13, 2022

He is also a graduate of Columbia Law School. In the end, though, a large part of the story turned on the question of just what it was that enabled Harlan to see the law so differently from his peers. Canellos published a new biography of Harlan, The Great Dissenter: The Story of John Marshall Harlan, America’s Judicial Hero.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 15, 2022

Share Under established constitutional law, states may generally not tax or regulate property or operations of the federal government. A 1936 federal law waives federal immunity from state workers’ compensation laws on federal land and projects. This principle is known as intergovernmental immunity. Washington.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

MARCH 17, 2025

Richards : The case centers on the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA), which provides: No action shall be brought with respect to prison conditions under section 1983 of this title, or any other Federal law, by a prisoner confined in any jail, prison, or other correctional facility until such administrative remedies as are available are exhausted.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 13, 2023

Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Ohio charged Durant with a “federal misdemeanor charge under the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act.”

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

10 speech supporting Israel, and accuses Israel of committing “war crimes and/or crimes against humanity under international law.” Ohio , 378 U.S. Jonathan Turley, an attorney, constitutional law scholar and legal analyst, is the Shapiro Chair for Public Interest Law at The George Washington University Law School.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 13, 2022

My grandfather was a union organizer and a coal miner who developed black lung in the mines of Ohio. Elie Mystal, who writes for the Nation and Above the Law , called the Constitution “ kind of trash.” We should be alarmed by this poll because it shows a deep disconnection with this country and its protection.

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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. Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University. Follow him on Twitter @JonathanTurley.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 25, 2023

In Ohio, Shawnee State University Professor Nicholas Meriwether, won a major appeal before the Sixth Circuit, which reversed a lower court that initially upheld his punishment for not using a student’s designated pronoun choices. We have discussed the last name option in earlier posts, including the settlement in the Meriwether case.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 23, 2024

Supreme Court ruled against a provision of federal law that banned computer simulations and virtual pornography under the first amendment. Ohio , 378 U.S. As written, this bill is too vague and too broad to pass constitutional muster under existing precedent. In a 2002 ruling, the U.S. In Ashcroft v.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 13, 2022

Below is my column on the case of the ten-year-old rape victim who allegedly was taken to Indiana because an abortion was barred in Ohio. (A There remain, however, questions as to why the child had to leave Ohio, which has exceptions that would apply to the case. Indiana law also requires medical professionals like Dr.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 4, 2024

JD Vance, R-Ohio, cited the massive system of censorship supported by Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate. Ohio , Goldman cut me off and said, “ We don’t need a law class here.” In the vice presidential debate, Walz showed that he and other Democratic leaders most certainly do need a class in First Amendment law.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Cities, too, are enforcing misgendering rules; for example, the New York City Human Rights Law allows for fines if employers, landlords or professionals fail to use a preferred name, pronoun or title. Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 26, 2022

Addressing the scope of this right is key to defining and supporting this right in constitutional law. However, many politicians are pushing an unlimited view of the right that raises both constitutional and political questions — an approach that far exceeds what the current Roe case law supports. Senate in Ohio.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Senate candidate Tim Ryan (D-Ohio) has adopted an absolute position that there should be no limits on a woman’s right to abortion — far beyond anything in Roe or Casey — and has refused to address whether this would mean that a fully formed baby in the ninth month of pregnancy could be aborted. Follow him on Twitter @JonathanTurley.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Ohio, a 1969 case involving “violent speech,” the court struck down an Ohio law prohibiting public speech that was deemed as promoting illegal conduct. granted a preliminary injunction on the basis that “the Hateful Conduct Law” is blatantly unconstitutional, which it most certainly is. Law § 394-ccc(1)(a)].

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Previously, MSNBC legal analyst and Michigan Law Professor Barbara McQuade told MSNBC viewers that Trump could be charged with manslaughter for his role in the January 6 Capitol riot. Moreover, arguing that these speakers induced violence under another form of tort liability would be quickly rejected under the First Amendment.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 7, 2021

Despite showing that the attacks could have been prevented under existing laws and powers, the budgets and powers of both agencies were then massively increased. It is one of the worst conceived and crafted federal laws on the books. In 1877, to quote from a speech of Ohio Sen. That is not what we need. Nothing has changed.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 2, 2021

In Ohio, $1 million lottery prizes were offered to those willing to take the shots; other states offered free metro or free museum passes. Recently, a shocking poll found that almost 50 percent of Republicans believe “patriotic Americans [might] have to take the law into their own hands.”

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 8, 2021

Rubin wants to expel members who made objections allowed under a federal law on the very same grounds that Democrats have made in past elections. Moreover, Rubin objects to how these members used “disinformation” to incite violence but proceeds to misrepresent both the law and the record. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.)

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), who have already been told to preserve their phone records to be surrendered to the committee. Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University. With those words , House Select Committee Chair Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) 6 riot in Congress.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

Once again, the media is silent on this clearly abusive use of the criminal code target members of the opposing party in their raising objections under state law. While it was gleefully presented by papers like the Washington Post, it ignored case law that rejected precisely this type of limitless definition of the offense.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 20, 2022

Officials then moved under “Red Flag” laws to seize four rifles and three handguns. Ohio , the Supreme Court ruled in 1969 that even calling for violence is protected under the First Amendment unless there is a threat of “ imminent lawless action and is likely to incite or produce such action.”. In Brandenburg v.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 6, 2021

A letter signed by 144 constitutional law scholars and circulated Friday characterizes as “legally frivolous” ex-President Donald Trump’s First Amendment -based defense in his impeachment trial slated to start in the US Senate on February 8.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Michael Flynn embraced an extreme call this week for President Donald Trump to declare martial law to hold a new presidential election. In a tweet , Flynn appeared to endorse a call from We the People Convention to declare martial law. However, the large headline of the original tweet prominently refers to martial law.

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