JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Other schools at the bottom of the list include the University of Pennsylvania, Georgetown University, the University of South Carolina and Fordham University. Jonathan Turley, an attorney, constitutional law scholar and legal analyst, is the Shapiro Chair for Public Interest Law at The George Washington University Law School.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2024

When the squirrel refused to return to the wild, they adopted him as a pet in their home in rural Pine City , near the Pennsylvania border. That’s what makes our United States Constitution so precious, and it needs to be honored.” Peanut then became an internet sensation.

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APRIL 9, 2021

Balkin, Knight Professor of Constitutional Law and the First Amendment at Yale Law School. Bob Bauer (co-chair), professor of practice, distinguished scholar in residence and co-director of the Legislative and Regulatory Process Clinic at New York University School of Law. Sovern Professor of Law at Columbia University.

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DECEMBER 31, 2022

During an illustrious career as a constitutional law scholar and a top Supreme Court advocate, Walter Dellinger argued 24 times before the court, including in some of the biggest cases of the past 30 years. In 1948, Cecilia “Cissy” Suyat took a job as a legal secretary at the NAACP in New York City. Board of Education.

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MARCH 26, 2022

It is important to note that Republicans have also had courts rule against them in states like North Carolina and Pennsylvania). However, weeks after the election, journalists discovered that the Clinton campaign hid payments for the dossier made to a research firm, Fusion GPS, as “legal fees” among the $5.6

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

District Court Judge Matthew Brann dismissed the challenge filed by the Trump campaign to stop the certification of the vote in Pennsylvania. The scathing order described the argument of Trump counsel Rudy Giuliani as a “Frankenstein monster” composed of disparate parts of different legal claims.

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JUNE 26, 2023

The issue came to the court in a dispute arising from environmental contamination from a wood-treatment plant operated by Kerr-McGee in Avoca, Pennsylvania. The law firm moved the case to a federal court in Pennsylvania, arguing that the proceeding “arose in” and was “related to” the ongoing bankruptcy proceedings.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Those words from actress Jane Greer, the ultimate femme fatale in the 1947 film-noir classic, “Out of the Past,” could well have been written above the caption of the Biden administration’s brief this week before the Supreme Court, seeking to enjoin the Texas abortion law. Casey , 505 U.S. 833 (1992).

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MAY 16, 2022

Susan Wild (D) who represents the 7th District in Pennsylvania and is a distinguished graduate of our law school. Wild chose the commencement address to launch into a personal attack that accused me of being an example of the use of law for “wrongful ends.”

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NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Trinity Legal Center and Catholic Medical Association, National Association of Catholic Nurses-USA, Idaho Chooses Life and Texas Alliance for Life make similar arguments. The Christian Legal Society and Robertson Center for Constitutional Law , Concerned Women for America , and Judicial Watch, Inc. Against stare decisis.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 30, 2021

Supporting commentary explained how “Anti-Blackness determined the inclusion of the Second Amendment in the Bill of Rights, and has informed the unequal and racist application of gun laws.”. Slavery was a matter discussed both at the Declaration of Independence and during the Constitutional debates. In his famous 1770 defense of Capt.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 5, 2024

Here is the column: As the decisions disqualifying former President Donald Trump from the 2024 election work their way through the courts, a new filing in Pennsylvania seeks the same “ballot cleansing” by barring Republican Rep. The filing against Perry came the same day Pennsylvania Democratic state Sen. Scott Perry.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 12, 2020

Pascrell’s move against his colleagues mirrors language in the response of Pennsylvania’s Attorney General Josh Shapiro calling the Texas lawsuit “seditious.” It is working within our constitutional system for a legal opinion on the merits of a challenge. Rebels do not storm the courts with legal filings.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

The legal case against birthright citizenship has always been tough to make, given the long-standing interpretation of the Fourteenth Amendment in federal courts and agencies. Many in academia and the media have shown unusual outrage toward anyone questioning the basis for birthright citizenship as a legal or policy matter.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 8, 2024

Even as Biden was telling citizens to vote Democrat to preserve democracy, a Democratic activist was seeking to remove a GOP congressman from the ballot in a nearby Pennsylvania district. Biden admitted that his White House counsel and most legal experts told him the move was unconstitutional.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 1, 2021

Yet, this is a legal challenge under constitutional and statutory law. It is same position taken recently before the Supreme Court by Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro, who called a legal challenge to the election “seditious.” I did not support the challenge in 2005 and I do not support this challenge.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

I will be doing the coverage tonight on the election for Fox News and election day has already gotten off to a lively start in terms of legal conflicts. We previously discussed Fetterman’s recent effort to enlist the firm of controversial Clinton lawyer Marc Elias to get a federal court to strike down a Pennsylvania election provision.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 12, 2024

In his speech Friday near Valley Forge, Pennsylvania , Biden insisted that “ democracy itself is on the ballot ” and said that this election would determine if democracy can survive in the United States. 6 riot was a true insurrection, I immediately denounced it as a desecration of our constitutional system.

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JANUARY 12, 2021

I have long disagreed with the view that there is a constitutional barrier to indicting a sitting president. As I wrote earlier , the governing legal standard for violent speech is found in Brandenburg v. So let’s walk down Pennsylvania Avenue.” I believe that they are fundamentally wrong on the controlling law.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 6, 2022

Yet, a year ago, various legal experts declared that Trump should be charged based on his speech and his delay in calling for protesters to leave Capitol Hill. Indeed, many of the same legal experts reappeared to offer assurances that Trump can still be frog marched to the hoosegow. So let’s walk down Pennsylvania Avenue.”

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JonathanTurley

JULY 5, 2021

Below is my column in the Hill on a series of cases that appear propelled by political rather than legal considerations. The costs to the legal system, the public, or victims in such cases are often overlooked but they are considerable. Nor is he alone in pursuing a case driven more by political than legal considerations.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 22, 2021

The ruling is reminiscent of the ruling of another judge in Pennsylvania in a case where a Muslim man attacked an atheist who wore a “Zombie Mohammed” costume on Halloween. The Miller standard has long been criticized by legal scholars, including myself, as hopelessly and dangerously vague. In earlier cases like Jacobellis v.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 1, 2021

The tweet was insulting and sophomoric but the action taken by the university is rightfully now a legal matter before the Eastern District of U.S. There was also such an incident at the University of London involving Bahar Mustafa as well as one involving a University of Pennsylvania professor. District Court of Tennessee.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 11, 2021

So let’s walk down Pennsylvania Avenue.” The governing legal standard for violent speech is found in Brandenburg v. .” He ended his speech by saying a protest at the Capitol was meant to “try and give our Republicans, the weak ones … the kind of pride and boldness that they need to take back our country.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

I have long been a vocal critic of the theory, which I view as historically and legally unfounded. So let’s walk down Pennsylvania Avenue.” We need to put this insidious legal theory to rest with the finality and clarity of a Supreme Court decision. I also view it as arguably the most dangerous theory to arise in decades.

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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

OCTOBER 24, 2024

The poll sampled 5,016 registered voters in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. They supported the weaponization of the legal process in New York against Trump. Notably, this was the same result when President Biden was the nominee.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 21, 2020

For years, Democrats and an array of legal experts denounced Trump for dismissing the Russia collusion investigation as a politically motivated hoax. Trump has long had a similarly distortive impact on legal analysis.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Now, the moment is nearly here, and pundits are dreading that the public may notice there is no line of democracy champions being frog-marched down Pennsylvania Avenue. Moreover, the cases brought by Special Counsel Jack Smith were riddled with constitutional problems and unlikely to be sustained even with a conviction.

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