Constitutional Law Reporter

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

The issues before the Court included choice-of-law clauses, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act’s whistleblower protection, and racial gerrymandering. 310 (1955), the Supreme Court established that “maritime contracts are governed by federal admiralty law when there is an established federal rule, but absent such a rule, state law applies.”

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 9, 2021

The exchange occurred as Taub was being questioned on the meaning of “sectarian” under the law. Almost a dozen states (including Idaho, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, Arizona, and North Dakota) have passed legislation to bar CRT and roughly a dozen more are considering such legislation.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Above the Law senior editor Joe Patrice defended “predominantly liberal faculties” in a column arguing that hiring a conservative academic was akin to allowing a believer in geocentrism — that the sun orbits the earth — to teach at a university. Public universities must protect free speech as a matter of law.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 5, 2021

Here is the column: As the fight over election reform heats up in Congress, the White House is ramping up the rhetoric, declaring that President Biden and Vice President Harris are “incensed by the anti-voter laws that are trampling on our constitutional principles.” You cannot protect one by negating the other. In McPherson v.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Black churches feeling like they are going to get shot up, like at a Bible study that’s happened in South Carolina. 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. In Brandenburg v.

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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. South Carolina v. In protecting the rule of law, how we do things is often as what we do. Katzenbach, 383 U.S. 301, 308, 86 S.Ct.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

President Joe Biden amplified that view earlier by wrongly and repeatedly claiming Georgia’s election laws are “Jim Crow on steroids.” So a law originally aimed at disenfranchising Black voters is the reason this runoff rule even exists.” However, congressional races are subject to state laws like Georgia’s.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 31, 2022

Hawaii) has made controversial comments over her desire to have the next nominee rely not just on the law but the nominee’s life experiences to reach the right result in court cases. during a break in the debate ; Clyburn then gave Biden his critical endorsement before the key South Carolina primary. Susan Collins (R.,

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 29, 2021

But Biden is correct that some of the most abusive uses of the filibuster was by segregationists in the 1950s, as embodied in Strom Thurmond, a South Carolina Democrat, who set the record with filibustering the Civil Rights Act for over 24 hours. It was not created in the Jim Crow era.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 7, 2021

The election was marred by open fraud, including South Carolina certifying a vote of 101% of the eligible voters. 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. That is not what we need. Nothing has changed.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 6, 2021

Here is the column: It is a touchstone of American constitutional law that nothing protects your right to shout “fire!” It is the use of a federal law to raise a challenge that has been raised in past elections over important issues of voter fraud or irregularity. Academics have debated this poorly drafted law for decades.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 3, 2024

justices as being, in the words of law professor Cass Sunstein, “ illegitimate, undemocratic, and unprincipled.” Appeals of ballot decisions are pending in Arizona; ballot challenges are in process in Alaska, Maine , New York, New Jersey, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, South Carolina, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia and Wyoming.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 30, 2022

I’m looking forward to making sure there’s a black woman on the Supreme Court, to make sure we, in fact, get every representation,” he said in a South Carolina debate. Mr. Turley is a law professor at George Washington University. Biden pledged to select the next justice first and foremost on race and sex.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 28, 2021

Andy Harris of Maryland and Ralph Norman of South Carolina formally announced impeachment articles against Secretary of State Antony J. Once again, the use of impeachment to address such policy and programmatic “failures” would fundamentally change the purpose of impeachment in our constitutional system.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 3, 2024

Marco Rubio, South Carolina Sen. The Trump short list for vice presidential candidates is reportedly down to Ohio Senator, J.D. Vance, Florida Sen. Tim Scott and North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

The problem was that rampant fraud was alleged in Florida, Louisiana and South Carolina. For example, South Carolina reported 101 percent of voters voting). Only then would the action make it into the “core reactor” equivalent of our constitutional system — the joint session of Congress. The electoral ‘reactor’.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Indeed, adhering to the living-Constitution theory may be the only pro-life position tolerated in a Biden nominee. Virtually all of the nominees on Biden’s rumored short list run from the left to the far left of constitutional interpretation. Yet one favorite is South Carolina District Court Judge J. James Clyburn (D-S.C.);

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