The Crime Report

AUGUST 11, 2022

justice system and reduce mass incarceration, argues a Washington and Lee University law professor. Expansion of the jury trial right would constitute a meaningful structural reform in democratizing criminal justice, at a time when such change is needed to establish the popular legitimacy of the criminal justice system,” writes J.D.

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SCOTUSBlog

AUGUST 29, 2023

Similarly, securities laws have produced a steady diet of cases at the court each year since the adoption of the major securities statutes in 1933 and 1934. Their research into the justices’ files reveals not only how American securities law came to be, but also the complicated, and sometimes personal, inner workings of the court itself.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 14, 2022

The defendants include Nancy Allbritton, the Dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Washington, Magdalena Balazinska, Director of the Allen School, UW President Ana Mari Cauce, and the Allen School’s Vice Director Dan Grossman. It is the subject of my recent publication in the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Washington Democrats are adding a fifth stage for confessions under a new law. The bill would amend the state law that currently applies to law enforcement, teachers, medical professionals or child care providers to report cases of child abuse or neglect. Clergy would be added to the list. Accordingly, under Canon 983.1,

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Constitutional Law Reporter

AUGUST 28, 2023

Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of state laws requiring corporations operating within their borders to consent to personal jurisdiction when they register to do business in those states. According to the Court, such laws do not offend the Constitution’s Due Process Clause. Washington , 326 U.S. Brown , 564 U.S.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

A teacher in Washington was told to remove a “Blue Lives Matter” flag that she put up to support her brother who was a former police officer. We recently discussed a controversy over a teacher being told to remove an Antifa flag and Gay Pride flag. We now have the inverse case. The flag was surrounded by pictures of her brother.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 1, 2025

Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro professor of public interest law at George Washington University and the author of The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage. The Catholic Charities case shows that the Wisconsin Supreme Court is divided along more than just a party line. The current seal above is dreadful.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 12, 2021

The centerpiece of Cuomo’s plan is a new law to allow victims of gun violence to sue gun manufacturers under a nuisance theory. It is doubtful that Cuomo truly believes that the law will make a significant, if any, impact on gun violence. The new law is written to get around a federal ban on such lawsuits. Of the $138.7

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Lincoln Caplan is a senior research scholar and a visiting lecturer in law at Yale Law School and also teaches in Yale’s English and political science departments. Professors at the event reflected on opinions about administrative law, free speech, patents, and other topics. He profiled Breyer for Harvard Magazine in 2017.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 9, 2023

First, let’s look at the law. The California provision states that kidnapping involves someone who “abducts or takes by force or fraud any person contrary to the law of the place where that act is committed, and brings, sends, or conveys that person within the limits of this state.”

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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). Recently, the U.S.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 7, 2021

After fleeing to Washington, the legislators claim that the criticism and threats made by the governor and other infringed on their constitutional rights to free speech and to petition the government for redress of grievances. It was an ironic moment as Democrats in Washington celebrated their act while they denounced filibusters.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 8, 2022

The same concerns were raised this week after Washington Gov. 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. In Brandenburg v.

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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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JonathanTurley

MARCH 12, 2025

Brown Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro professor of public interest law at George Washington University and the author of The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage. Jensen is also represented by Nevada attorney John Nolan, who brought the lawsuit and wrote the briefs filed with the Ninth Circuit.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 15, 2022

Outside Counsel for Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington. Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law. The George Washington University Law School. University of Maryland. Anne Weismann. and the Project on Government Oversight. Jonathan Turley. and Maurice C. Turley.Testimony.Senate Homeland.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Here is the column: With the formal approval of the impeachment inquiry into the conduct of President Joe Biden, the alarm and denial in Washington has reached an almost hysterical level. Jonathan Turley is an attorney and professor at George Washington University Law School.

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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.” Washington, D.C. Shapiro Professor Of Public Interest Law.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

4] The Washington Post and other media outlets have also declared the President’s insistence that his family did not take money from China as false. [5] 13] Some of the deals negotiated by Hunter involved potential benefits for his father, including office space in Washington. [14] Post, Apr. 27, 2023. [13] 27, 2023. [14]

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Justice Chase (not long after the Bill of Rights was written) rejected this type of abuse: An act of the Legislature (for I cannot call it a law) contrary to the great first principles of the social compact, cannot be considered a rightful exercise of legislative authority . A] law that takes property from A.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Facts of the Case Arizona law enforcement officers found petitioner Jason Smith with a large quantity of what appeared to be drugs and drug-related items. Washington , 541 U.S. The post Supreme Court Clarifies Application of Confrontation Clause to Forensic Analysis appeared first on Constitutional Law Reporter.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

JUNE 17, 2022

Respondent Robert Boule owns a bed-and-breakfast—the Smuggler’s Inn—in Blaine, Washington. The post Supreme Court Rejects Cause of Action Under Bivens Against Border Patrol Agent appeared first on Constitutional Law Reporter. Facts of the Case. The inn abuts the international border between Canada and the United States.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 18, 2024

Will , Pulitzer Prize winner and Washington Post columnist. District Judge “Jonathan Turley is one of the most astute and most honest analysts of the intersection of politics and law. Thirty years in the making, this book brilliantly proposes means for preserving the most important Constitutional right: the right to free speech.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 2, 2023

No one is above the law and if a crime was committed in this county, we will prosecute it.”. was found to have misrepresented his military service , and Georgia Republican senatorial candidate Herschel Walker was accused of misrepresenting law enforcement and educational credentials. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) But it isn’t necessary.”.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 11, 2023

Here is the witness list: WITNESSES: Ben Weingarten Investigative Journalist and Columnist Martin Kulldorff, PhD Epidemiologist and Biostatistician Cynthia Miller-Idriss, PhD Professor, School of Public Affairs and School of Education Founding Director, Polarization and Extremism Research and Innovation Lab, American University Jonathan Turley Shapiro (..)

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 5, 2022

We largely agree on areas of possible reforms, including the potential dangers of registration laws like FARA for free speech and association. Program, International Center for Not-For-Profit Law. Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law; Director, Environmental Law Advocacy Center, The George Washington University Law School.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 22, 2021

Even law professors are largely silent on the implications of a finding that the shooting of an unarmed protester is justified. Violent riots are unfortunately common today in cities ranging from Minneapolis to Portland to Washington.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Tulsi Gabbard, D-Hawaii Second panel: Mr. Thomas Baker, Former FBI Agent Professor Jonathan Turley, George Washington University Law Center Mr. Elliot Williams, Principal, the Raben Group Ms. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis. Former Rep.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 15, 2024

Will , Pulitzer Prize winner and Washington Post columnist. District Judge “Jonathan Turley is one of the most astute and most honest analysts of the intersection of politics and law. Thirty years in the making, this book brilliantly proposes means for preserving the most important Constitutional right: the right to free speech.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 30, 2021

Recently, I was critical of a Washington Post column by University of California-Berkeley Dean Erwin Chemerinsky and Professor Aaron S. However, Fitzgerald saw no constitutional barrier to the citizens of California creating such a system. He noted that the Supreme Court case law like Burdick v. Gavin Newsom as unconstitutional.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 10, 2021

They have been heralded by Democrats in Washington (despite their own opposition to federal filibusters as anti-Democratic). The complaint of the raises the little used power under Texas law to forcibly bring legislators to the floor. The United States Constitution has the same power. Bassett, Jeremy Monthy and Megan Rue.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 4, 2023

Even the Washington Post has called Biden’s repeated velocity claim “bungled” and factually incorrect. A June 30 Field & Stream column on the “Five Fastest Rifle Cartridges” listed the feet per second (fps) the five fastest rifle cartridges: 220 Swift — A 40-Grain.220 220 Swift round moves approximately 4,300 fps.257

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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

AUGUST 11, 2021

The lack of case law was at the heart of the “fact check” of the PolitiFact. Such fact checks are often challenged as biased, including the well-known fact checking at the Washington Post ( here and here ). Such objections should be distinguished from complaints over distorting backgrounds , history history , or the law.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

It got worse from there, including a glaring constitutional violation by the prosecution when Binger began his cross examination of Rittenhouse by commenting on his decision to remain silent. Her guest, MSNBC legal analyst and Georgetown law professor Paul Butler, concurred and called it “the greatest performance of (his) life.”.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 30, 2021

Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law, The George Washington University Law School. Executive Vice President & Chief Legal Officer, Hearst Corporation. Lynn Oberlander. Of Counsel, Ballard Spahr LLP. Mr. Jonathan Turley. and Maurice C. Here is my testimony: Turley Testimony.Final.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Washington , 541 U.S. The post <strong>Supreme Court Rejects “Door Opening Rule” Exception to Confrontation Clause</strong> appeared first on Constitutional Law Reporter. In Crawford v.

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