JonathanTurley

APRIL 18, 2021

The sharp contrast in the two decisions raises serious questions over the legal and political issues that rage around such cases. The decisions reached in the shootings of Daunte Wright in Minnesota and Ashli Babbitt in Washington highlight concerns over the political and legal elements that can influence such decisions.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

It was a tour-de-force on the value of satire to make profound legal and political points. 2, on your Tennessee Carpet.” Parody and satire also face threats from other legal actions, particularly tort actions over the appropriation of names or likenesses (called the right to publicity). Image from Supreme Court Petition.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 1, 2024

The controversial law came up in oral arguments over the access to the abortion pill in the Supreme Court. The history of the Act, and its namesake, remains a blot on our legal system. For example, he was unrelenting in his efforts to imprison Victoria Claflin Woodhull and her sister Tennessee “Tennie” Claflin.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 11, 2022

But it fell short of that constitutional threshold. Not only that, but four states — Nebraska, Tennessee, Idaho, Kentucky — rescinded their prior ratifications; a fifth, South Dakota, set its ratification to expire if the ERA was not adopted by the 1979 deadline. Ginsburg was not the only one dismissive of these theories.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 5, 2021

Indeed, it felt like a scene from Tennessee Williams’ play, “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.” After telling the students that “You know, I can’t change Texas’ law but you can and everyone else who may or may not like it can go out there and be lobbying forces in changing laws that you don’t like.”

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 14, 2021

Here is what I precisely wrote on the Blount and Belknap impeachment in The Executive Function Theory, The Hamilton Affair, And Other Constitutional Mythologies , 77 North Carolina Law Review 1791 (1999): 1. The impeachment of Senator William Blount of Tennessee may have been the most interesting both factually and legally.

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Above The Law

MARCH 7, 2025

(Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) Supreme Court oral arguments are more than just legal debatestheyre a high-stakes battleground where justices reveal their philosophies, test the strength of arguments, and sometimes, subtly try to persuade their colleagues. She also considers strategic behavior in shaping legal outcomes.

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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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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

The case involving the Tennessee ban on the use of puberty blockers and hormone therapy for transgender minors is expected to establish new and significant precedent in the area. In July 2023, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals rejected challenges to such laws in Tennessee and Kentucky.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 1, 2021

The latest involves Chris Malone who was fired as the offensive line coach for The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga after he posted an insulting tweet about Georgia politician Stacey Abrams. 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.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 19, 2025

In his final week as president, Joe Biden again invoked liberal professors to justify a plainly absurd constitutional argument by declaring that the 28th Amendment is now ratified. By invoking “leading legal constitutional scholars,” Biden only added redundancy to absurdity in claiming that the Equal Rights Amendment is now law.

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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. However, the Senate must decide if it wants to hold a trial based on a legal fiction: a vote to remove someone who is no longer in office. This issue has been debated since the first impeachment in 1797, when Sen.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 18, 2025

Archivist, Colleen Shogan recently explained that neither her office nor the White House have the authority to publish the amendment unilaterally or waive the deadline for ratification: In 2020 and again in 2022, the Office of Legal Counsel of the U.S. ” The reason is simple. The underlying argument is utterly ridiculous.

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