JonathanTurley

JUNE 9, 2023

.” The problem, however, is that this is just like the transport of migrants to Martha’s Vineyard in September 2022, which a number of Democratic leaders and legal experts insisted was also a clear case of kidnapping and human trafficking. First, let’s look at the law. Newsom previously asked the U.S.

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DECEMBER 19, 2021

The reason is that these legislative measure are propelled by political rather than legal judgment. The gun nuisance law is the latest in a long line of mistakes by New York. Not only is the law likely to be a large miss, it will likely deliver another blow to gun control efforts by adding precedent protecting Second Amendment rights.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 14, 2021

In the prior litigation, the city waited for a year to reveal the truth that it used tear gas near the park. As I noted in my testimony to Congress on the protest, the clearing of the park raised serious legal questions, particularly the unjustified use of force that night.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

While legal experts pushed the department to challenge the entire order, the Department is seeking a smaller target. In litigation the rule is the same as in hunting: “aim small, miss small.” The filing seems intended to not just secure a victory before that release but also to abandon its prior sweeping legal claims.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 18, 2022

Below is my column in the Hill on how the next round of post-Roe litigation is coming into sharper focus. Such changes are like the shifting of tectonic plates, triggering earthquakes and volcanic eruptions in the legal lithosphere. Texas is suing the Biden administration over new guidance issued after the Dobbs decision.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

The undocumented migrants who were transferred to Martha’s Vineyard have quickly adopted one common American practice: litigation. The splattering of a claims face considerable legal barriers based on the consent of the migrants, as shown in a waiver released by Florida. Here is the complaint: Alianza-Americas v. DeSantis.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 3, 2022

After Dobbs was accepted, advocates sought to enjoin a Texas law that banned abortion after just six weeks. The court ruled 5-4 to allow the Texas law to be enforced. The Biden administration and other litigants then forced a reconsideration of that decision.

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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. climate litigation charts. By Margaret Barry and Korey Silverman-Roati. and non-U.S. HERE ARE THE ADDITIONS TO THE CLIMATE CASE CHART SINCE UPDATE # 148.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

I recently wrote a column on the legal challenges to President Joe Biden’s vaccine mandate issued through OSHA. Biden admitted that his White House counsel and their preferred legal experts told him that the move was likely unconstitutional. Here is the opinion: BST Holdings v.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

That statement was then walked back due to the lack of legal authority to issue such a mandate. Ironically, this move comes on the same day that Attorney General Merrick Garland denounced the “clever” use of the Texas abortion law to make it more difficult to challenge.

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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. Both were legally and factually wrong. Both were legally and factually wrong. Future abortion rights do not run through Texas or Congress.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 11, 2021

Positions that were once denounced by media and legal experts as raw partisanship have now been adopted by the Biden Administration with little acknowledgement from those same figures. Garland has indeed followed the law, but some are not thrilled by where it has taken him. Jean Carroll, who alleges that Trump raped her.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 9, 2022

Biden admitted that his White House counsel and their preferred legal experts told him that the move was likely unconstitutional. Despite the pledge to return to a respect for the “rule of law,” Biden openly suggested that they could use the litigation to get as much money out the door as possible before being barred by the courts.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 23, 2021

For a year, legal and media experts have stated as fact that area was cleared for that purpose and that Barr was lying about the federal agencies using tear gas as opposed to pepper balls (even though the legal and practical difference is largely immaterial). The difference has little real significance either legally or practically.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

The Texas Supreme Court has handed down a major ruling in defense of free speech this week. The underlying cases stem from an intense political fight over an ordinance passed by the city council in Waskom, Texas. A week later, after Dickson failed to yield, the Afiya Center sued Dickson and Right to Life East Texas in Dallas County.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 3, 2024

It would then depend on the Maine litigation to bring the matter back to the Court. Here is the column: It is “a sad day for America and the Constitution when a court decides the outcome of an election.” At the time, another rising star in Republican legal circles was getting her start as a young law firm associate.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

The move came on the same day Attorney General Merrick Garland announced an equally sweeping claim of federal jurisdiction over abortion rights in challenging the Texas law. Instead, it will sue directly as a party in interest because the law is viewed as countermanding a constitutional right.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 12, 2020

From the outset of the Texas lawsuit, I stated that it was virtually guaranteed to fail on standing. Pascrell’s move against his colleagues mirrors language in the response of Pennsylvania’s Attorney General Josh Shapiro calling the Texas lawsuit “seditious.” Rebels do not storm the courts with legal filings.

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