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Were the Framers Really Pro-Choice? Not Likely

JonathanTurley

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. The column makes highly dubious claims over the legality of early stage abortions and the likely understanding of the Framers of such a right.

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Locked and Loaded: Supreme Court is Ready for a Showdown on the Second Amendment

JonathanTurley

Those politicians publicly thumped their chests about going to the Supreme Court with the law and limiting the Second Amendment precedent; professing absolute confidence, they litigated the law, and, again, the 2nd Circuit supported the dubious statute. You can find his updates on Twitter @JonathanTurley.

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The lives they lived and the court they shaped: Remembering those we lost in 2022

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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. Dellinger lost both of those cases, but he notched plenty of victories, including in Washington v. Board of Education.

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Roe Redux: Is The Viability Test Still Viable as a Constitutional Doctrine?

JonathanTurley

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. The court ruled 5-4 to allow the Texas law to be enforced. For years, many analysts overhyped cases as possible death knells for Roe v.

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“This is How Republics Collapse”: Another Adverse Decision Sends the Press and Pundits into a Hair-Pulling Meltdown

JonathanTurley

Indeed, law professors and legal experts are demanding the removal of Cannon for having the temerity to adopt an opposing view of the underlying constitutional claim. The 93-page order methodically goes through the governing cases and statutes for the appointment of prosecutors.

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At a vestige of the Manhattan Project, a fight over workers’ compensation and intergovernmental immunity

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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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California Dreaming: Newsom’s Kidnapping Claim Against DeSantis is Long on Politics and Short on the Law

JonathanTurley

.” 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. Newsom previously asked the U.S. To great acclaim, Rachael Rollins, then the U.S.

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