Broadcast Law Blog

JUNE 22, 2017

What does this mean for businesses in general, including, in particular, broadcasters and the Washington DC National Football League franchise? The PTO also stated that it was bound by a 1981 precedent issued by the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, holding that the statute was constitutional.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

The Washington Post has been criticized for running a column by Aaron Tang , professor of law at the University of California at Davis, claiming an originalist basis for the right to abortion. I recently wrote a column on how abortions were treated as crimes at the time of the drafting of the Constitution.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 18, 2021

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.” Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The theory runs against the text, history, and case law of the Thirteenth Amendment. Lauren Handy and nine other anti-abortion activists were charged last year with conspiring to obstruct access to a Washington abortion clinic on Oct. ” Bailey involved an Alabama law making it a crime to refuse to do labor under a contract.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 25, 2021

We have been discussing the state laws requiring contractors and employees to swear that they do not support the the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (“BDS”) movement against Israel. I have long maintained that the law is unconstitutional as a limitation of free speech and associational rights. 50-5-85(b). O.C.G.A. §

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JonathanTurley

JULY 27, 2021

Elenis could force a hitherto evasive Court to rule directly on the conflict between anti-discrimination laws and the religious clauses. …The Commission’s hostility was inconsistent with the First Amendment’s guarantee that our laws be applied in a manner that is neutral toward religion.”. . Washington in light of its decision.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 4, 2023

District Judge Thomas Parker this week struck down a Tennessee law that put strict limits on drag shows as “unconstitutionally vague.” ” While many of us have objections to drag shows put on for young children, Judge Parker is right about this law being a threat to free speech. Washington, 418 U.S.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

The oral argument is scheduled for December 1st, the same week that the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit will hear an expedited appeal over the even more stringent Texas abortion law. Indeed, the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was a critic of Roe , seeing it as too sweeping in supplanting state laws.

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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. They are then left to their own devices and destinations.

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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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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 15, 2022

Share Under established constitutional law, states may generally not tax or regulate property or operations of the federal government. Washington. A 1936 federal law waives federal immunity from state workers’ compensation laws on federal land and projects. Washington implicitly contemplates such situations.

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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. The gun nuisance law is the latest in a long line of mistakes by New York. An example is the recent New York public nuisance law seeking to make gun manufacturers liable for gun crime.

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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. United States , 561 U.S.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 25, 2022

It was clear from the outset that Jackson would not discuss her judicial philosophy on interpreting the Constitution or statutes — the very issue Democratic senators cited in voting against Barrett in 2020. Other questions, however, were related to the Court or her own approach to the law. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.)

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes once wrote that “hard cases make bad law.” But it also is a generally-worded statute that can be interpreted broadly, and I expect a split in court decisions — and that only increases the likelihood of a Supreme Court review. The same thing might be said about hard-hat arguments.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 8, 2022

We recently discussed a federal court upholding the Georgia election law as constitutional, rejecting challenges based on voter suppression by a group associated with Democratic Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams. Now, the Delaware Supreme Court has rejected a Democratic universal mail-in voting law as unconstitutional.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 21, 2022

While there are a couple of longer trial decisions, most of Jackson’s record does not clearly establish her interpretative approach to the Constitution or statutes. Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University. Follow him on Twitter @JonathanTurley.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 24, 2024

New Yorkers and the media insisted that such selective prosecution was in defense of the “rule of law.” She was the only person charged in the last 10 years under the state’s records laws for temporarily misplacing a document. That is not how the law is seen from 9th Avenue. It all comes down to the legal map. and Maurice C.

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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. He was not, the Washington Post editors insisted , “a lackey who will serve as the president’s personal attorney” like Donald Trump ‘s AGs.

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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. Washington Supreme Court Said Climate Activist Was Entitled to Present Necessity Defense Based on Evidence that Legal Alternatives Were Not “Truly Reasonable”.

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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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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Below is my column in The Hill on reaction to the refusal of the Supreme Court to enjoin the Texas abortion law. The Texas law is not even the greatest threat to Roe. In this self-described chaos, Democratic leaders moved to renew efforts to pack the court with a liberal majority, end the filibuster and federalize abortion laws.

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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

JUNE 3, 2021

The case involving computer fraud is interesting to some of us for its says about the intricacies of the federal statute. Demand Justice is pushing the court packing scheme and had a billboard truck in Washington the next day in the streets of Washington warning “Breyer, retire. Don’t risk your legacy.”

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 2, 2022

The Washington Post was quick to breathlessly declare that the time had finally come. I also supported Vice President Pence’s interpretation of federal law and disagreed with Eastman’s interpretation. Judge Carter notes that Eastman still believes that the statute is unconstitutional as written.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Here is the column: In both the law and psychology, the concept of “willful blindness” is a long-recognized pattern of human conduct. While Hunter may be charged with some tax violations, the statute of limitations has now run out on the most controversial payments in the 2014 and 2015 period for foreign sources such as Ukraine’s Burisma.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 15, 2023

Classified documents have been discovered in Biden’s possession at several locations, hundreds of miles apart, ranging from a prior office in Washington, D.C., Lying to investigators is itself a federal crime — removing any questions over statutes of limitation. to his home and his garage in Delaware.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

While the Justice Department allowed the statutes of limitations to run on various felonies, Hunter would be faced with a new set of charges with years for criminal charges to be brought by prosecutors. That may now change. If Hunter lies to congressional investigators, he can be charged with a federal crime. That will now change.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 26, 2023

I also raised the problem of an investigation that remained ongoing for years as the statute of limitations expired on major potential crimes. The two witnesses testified that the Justice Department instead allowed the statute of limitations to expire. It turns out that the same concerns were being raised within the Weiss team.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Moreover, publications are protected in most states by retraction statutes limiting or blocking damages for corrected stories. ” What we really need is an airing out – not of the constitutional standard but of its application to non-public officials. Finally, opinion is already protected from defamation actions.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 7, 2020

From bribery statutes to constitutional provisions, legal experts routinely and unfailingly conclude that Trump or his family can be prosecuted or impeached for an endless array of misdeeds. One of the longest standing debates in constitutional law is dismissed as ill-informed by some of the same experts.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 21, 2021

What is notable is that such losses in the early days of the Trump Administration led to coverage declaring a war on the “rule of law” and even indications of authoritarianism. The image of Biden as restoring the Justice Department back into the good graces of the law and the courts is reinforced regularly in the media.

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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. As I have previously written, a leading proponent has been former prosecutor and Washington Post columnist Randall D.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 1, 2024

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. Even after sitting in the courtroom watching the trial and the verdict, I still have no idea what Trump was convicted of in the case.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 25, 2024

From the descriptions in the Washington Post, New York Times and virtually every mainstream media outlet, you would think that Cannon was a freak in the courtroom, raving uncontrollably at any passerby. Attorneys be appointed under statute or nominated by the president (and confirmed by the Senate).

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JonathanTurley

JULY 4, 2021

The 6-3 decision undermines the claims raised in the new challenge to Georgia’s election law. The lawsuit against Georgia’s new voting rules was clearly timed to beat the court to the punch, but Brnovich delivers a haymaker for those seeking to block such state laws. The election law actually does the opposite.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Durham is now authorized to investigate anyone who may have “violated the law in connection with the intelligence, counter-intelligence, or law-enforcement activities directed at the 2016 presidential campaigns, individuals associated with those campaigns, and individuals associated with the administration of President Donald J.

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