Constitutional Law Reporter

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 60(b) empowers district courts, on just terms and under circumstances specified in that Rule, to “relieve a party or its legal representative from a final judgment, order, or proceeding.” Paxton : The First Amendment case challenges Texas H.B. Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.:

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Constitutional Law Reporter

AUGUST 6, 2024

Texas , 392 U.S. Finally, Justice Gorsuch discussed the problems resulting from the so-called “ Martin experiment,” including legal uncertainty and litigation. The post Supreme Court Upholds Homeless Ordinance Imposing Criminal Penalties appeared first on Constitutional Law Reporter. It also cited Powell v.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 10, 2022

The challengers, two groups that represent farmers and pork producers, contend that the law “will transform the pork industry nationwide,” while California and its supporters insist that the impact will be more limited.

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Legal Research is Easy

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

While everyone was eyeing Florida (29), Pennsylvania (20), Texas (38), and California (55), no one paid attention to the small states (to their detriment). In fact, the smallest states held 97 Electoral College votes. That's 18% of the total, people. Yep, it's the little guys that'll get you in the end.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 10, 2022

It is premised on a deeply flawed historical and legal view of a provision under the Fourteenth Amendment. This effort failed on legal grounds in seeking to bar Rep. as prescribed by law,” and does not include the Disqualification Clause, a legal proscription from holding office. . House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.)

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 28, 2024

The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has blocked border enforcement by the state under Texas’s SB 4. Many of us had predicted this result given the prior precedent of the Supreme Court on the federal preemption of state immigration laws. ’ The Texas and federal laws are not congruent on this score.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

JANUARY 10, 2022

Jackson that abortion providers may bring a pre-enforcement challenge in federal court as one means to test whether Texas’ s strict abortion law violates the U.S. Constitution, albeit only against certain state medical licensing officials. The justices also ruled that the law (S.B. 8 violates the Constitution.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 12, 2021

The release also breaks down the death count by state, reporting that 124 officers died in Texas, 53 died in California and 44 died in New York. As we had feared, the virus has claimed the lives of many, and now includes a growing number of law enforcement officers,” the release reads.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

” The filing is a Jackson Pollock of legal claims with twelve claims thrown against Florida from false imprisonment to intentional infliction of emotional distress to misuse of the Coronavirus State Fiscal Recovery Fund. Yet, this is a case involving undocumented migrants who allegedly signed a waiver and agreed to the trip.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Based on oral arguments, it appeared that a majority of the Court could be persuaded that the law runs afoul of the Second Amendment. Texas and Whole Woman’s Health v. Jackson are just as controversial, as they involve legal challenges to Texas’s restrictive abortion law. The issues in United States v.

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JonathanTurley

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

SEPTEMBER 2, 2023

We recently discussed a federal court ruling that the Texas law requiring age verification and warning for porn sites was unconstitutional. Now, Judge Timothy Brooks in Arkansas has found that another state law imposing age verification requirements for social media violates the First Amendment. In Netchoice, LLC v.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 13, 2021

As discussed previously , in Texas, Judge Reed O’Connor found that the Biden administration engaged in systemic gender and race discrimination to implement COVID-19 relief for American restaurants. While legislative counsel and some legal experts raised concerns over the constitutionality of the law, a trial court rejected the challenge.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 5, 2022

The court has lost a type of institutional innocence in maintaining confidentiality through decades of hard-fought and heated legal disputes. Before the argument, Sotomayor shocked many in calling upon students to campaign against abortion laws in anticipation of pending abortion cases before the court.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 1, 2023

For example, the Biden Administration was found to have violated the Constitution in its imposition of a nationwide eviction moratorium through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The President admitted that his White House counsel and most legal experts told him that the move was unconstitutional.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

MAY 17, 2022

Texas : This case concerns the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP), a former policy of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) under which certain noncitizens arriving at the southwest border were returned to Mexico during their immigration proceedings. The questions before the justices are: “(1) Whether 8 U.S.C. Oklahoma v.

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 28, 2022

Alito’s core legal analysis remained largely the same, with lengthy passages from the draft reappearing verbatim in the final opinion. Some language from the draft was omitted in the final opinion — mostly concerning legal citations. Alito also added some new language, the bulk of which responded to the dissent and concurrences.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 12, 2021

Gavin Newsom thrilled many this weekend by saying that his administration will model a new law on Texas’ abortion ban that would let private citizens sue anyone who makes or sells assault weapons or ghost guns. Legally, that is. First, the Texas law was quickly found to be unconstitutional, as would the California law.

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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

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

District Judge Mark Pittman of the Northern District of Texas has issued an opinion declaring that President Joe Biden violated the Constitution in unilaterally forgiving the debt before the midterm election. I previously criticized the legal basis for the loan forgiveness program.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 5, 2021

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.” Texas , which overturned prior precedent allowing the criminalization of homosexual relations.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 18, 2022

Such changes are like the shifting of tectonic plates, triggering earthquakes and volcanic eruptions in the legal lithosphere. In the law, the adjustment can take years, as collateral doctrines and applications shake out along new fault lines. Texas is suing the Biden administration over new guidance issued after the Dobbs decision.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Whenformer Texas congressman and U.S. These calls for greater gun controls remain either factually ambiguous or legally dubious. Senate candidate Beto ORourke declared , Hell yes, we are going to take your AR-15, he was widely celebrated on the left.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 21, 2025

Instead, the law directs the task force to make that determination, and it requires its recommendations to be independent, and to the extent practicable, not subject to political pressure. The post Court appears to back legality of HHS preventative care task force appeared first on SCOTUSblog.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Texas on the request for an emergency injunction in Texas to block the state’s controversial abortion law. The merits of the law are not at issue in the questions presented today but the decision to push for an injunction comes with some risks for the Biden Administration. Jackson and United States v.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 17, 2021

The bills are the latest examples of “gotcha legislation,” though the Florida bill could raise some interesting legal questions if Gov. In California, Newsom pledged to re-purpose the Texas “heartbeat law” to limit gun rights. The same would likely be true for the California law.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 14, 2021

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. The accounts in virtually every news report were quickly contradicted, but few reporters acknowledged the later facts coming out of federal agencies.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 3, 2022

Wade and return the area to the states, it is more likely that the court will increase the authority of the states while recognizing constitutional protections for such reproductive rights. After Dobbs was accepted, advocates sought to enjoin a Texas law that banned abortion after just six weeks.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 15, 2022

Moreover, laws in Oklahoma , Texas , Louisiana and other states restricting abortions expressly exempt such procedures. It would also unleash potential legal challenges. When a pregnancy implants in the fallopian tube, it is not a viable pregnancy and its treatment is not an abortion subject to these bans.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 24, 2021

So a ruling by a federal district court in Texas this week was particularly jarring: Judge Reed O’Connor found that the Biden administration engaged in systemic gender and race discrimination to implement COVID-19 relief for American restaurants. There is ample support for that claim. Other such cases are continuing.

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SCOTUSBlog

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.

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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

DECEMBER 9, 2020

The Court applied the actual malice standard and noted: It is simply impossible to believe that a reader who reached the word “blackmail” in either article would not have understood exactly what was meant: It was Bresler’s public and wholly legal negotiating proposals that were being criticized. Johnson, 491 U. 397, 414 (1989). diGenova.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 6, 2023

criticized me for offering “legal opinions” without working at Twitter. Sylvia Garcia (D-Texas) and other members pressed the journalists to reveal their sources. 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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JonathanTurley

JULY 9, 2022

Below is my column in the Hill on the effort to declare an “invasion” along the Texas border to allow the state to take greater control along the border to stem the flow of illegal immigrants. This week, Texas Gov. The legal difference is obvious. United States. Here is the column: “We’re being invaded.”

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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

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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