JonathanTurley

JANUARY 14, 2021

The impeachment of Senator William Blount of Tennessee may have been the most interesting both factually and legally. Factually, Blount stood accused of a conspiracy with Great Britain to take over territory in Florida and Louisiana (where Blount owned considerable property). William Blount (1798-99).

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

For instance, the National Right to Life Committee and the Louisiana Right to Life Federation argue that the court should reject the “categorical viability line” and replace it with a new “roadmap” under which courts would consider all state interests when analyzing the constitutionality of prohibitions on pre-viability elective abortions.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 6, 2023

Doughty are part of a 155-page opinion granting a temporary injunction, requested by Louisiana and Missouri, to prevent White House officials from meeting with tech companies about social media censorship. criticized me for offering “legal opinions” without working at Twitter. ” Those words by Chief U.S. District Judge Terry A.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 11, 2022

It is not only legally and medically false but it is dangerous if women actually believe what they are hearing or reading from these figures. It is a great talking point but it just happens to be untrue as both a legal and medical matter. ” Texas, Louisiana , and other states have the same express exemption.

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Above The Law

MARCH 21, 2025

In a series of recent decisions, federal courts across the United States have addressed a range of significant legal issues, from civil rights and constitutional law to administrative authority and criminal justice. Area of Law: Constitutional Law, Civil Rights, Federal Authority: 25 points.

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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!” So it is not true that such votes are being submitted without legal support of their validity. To make that Luke Skywalker shot, he needed a perfect alignment of elements. in a crowded theater.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 27, 2022

That world is already taking shape with states crafting their laws reflecting the values of their citizens from Colorado passing a law protecting the right to abortion up to the moment of birth to Louisiana banning all abortions except in limited circumstances. Thus, we remain deeply divided. How much has changed.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 10, 2022

” Here is the column: “Major-question-land,” the term used by Louisiana solicitor general Elizabeth Murrill during Friday’s oral arguments over the Biden vaccine mandates, has an almost Disneyesque sound to it. If the Biden administration loses on the OSHA case, it would constitute a major political and legal blow.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Despite annual columns questioning such apocalyptic predictions, which often seemed more political than legal, the granting of Dobbs led me to write my first “this could be it” column. Louisiana (2020) (a non-abortion case) that the court cannot maintain a precedent that is “grievously or egregiously wrong.”

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 21, 2021

Yet, many previously outspoken legal experts have either blamed conservative judges or simply ignored the losses all together. In Louisiana, a federal court enjoined the administration from carrying out its halting of gas and oil leases, finding that Biden’s unilateral action violated the separation of powers under the Constitution.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 17, 2021

On its face, the planned impeachment trial is at odds with the language of the Constitution, which expressly states that removal of a president is the primary purpose of such a trial. He will be a citizen and would be best served legally to forgo the trial entirely as extraconstitutional and invalid.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

AUGUST 4, 2021

Washington Supreme Court Said Climate Activist Was Entitled to Present Necessity Defense Based on Evidence that Legal Alternatives Were Not “Truly Reasonable”. HERE ARE THE ADDITIONS TO THE CLIMATE CASE CHART SINCE UPDATE # 148. FEATURED CASE. Biden , No. 3:21-cv-00065 (S.D. July 12, 2021). BP p.l.c. ,

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 18, 2021

William Blount of Tennessee faced allegations of conspiring to help Great Britain seize what is now Louisiana. The Senate apparently agreed and dismissed the case — just 10 years after the Constitution’s ratification, with most of the Framers still alive and some serving in Congress.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

With the adverse ruling in Pennsylvania, the Trump legal team is still pledging new evidence of massive fraud as certifications are completed. The options for the team seem more and more reduced to the ultimate constitutional trick shot in engineering a fight on the floor of Congress.

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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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