Above The Law

APRIL 3, 2025

Hundreds of law professors (363, to be exact) specializing in Constitutional Law, Legal Ethics, and Legal History recently submitted an amicus brief in support of Perkins Coie. Prior to joining the staff, he moonlighted as a minor Memelord in the Facebook group Law School Memes for Edgy T14s. Vullo, 602 U.S.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 26, 2025

Skrmetti, a case upholding Tennessee’s ban on adolescent transgender treatments, Thomas called for his colleagues to stand against an “expert class” that has dictated both policy and legal conclusions in the United States. Justices and judges will often take favorable studies as gospel in supporting their legal conclusions.

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Above The Law

MAY 5, 2025

note : Please welcome Renee Knake Jefferson back to the pages of Above the Law. Subscribe to her Substack, Legal Ethics Roundup, here. Welcome to what captivates, haunts, inspires, and surprises me every week in the world of legal ethics. 2025 NYC Rule of Law Rally 2025 by David Lat is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 3, 2025

” His point was that courts are skeptical of using minor provisions in a statute to achieve sweeping new legal changes. Jonathan Turley is a Fox News Media contributor and the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University.He

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JonathanTurley

MAY 20, 2025

The ACLU called the charged “authoritarianism” and insisted that these state and federal politicians “have every right to exercise their legally authorized oversight responsibilities for expanded immigration detention in New Jersey.” denounced it as a “political weaponization” of the legal system.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 9, 2025

District Judge Amit Mehta in Washington granted a motion to dismiss a case brought by five organizations to stop the cancellation of more than 360 grant awards by the Justice Department. He is tasked with deciding the legal questions in the case, which he did so correctly.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 10, 2025

It works something like this: A legal academy composed of largely liberal academics announces a constitutional crisis caused by conservatives, and then a largely liberal media runs the story with little scrutiny or skepticism. Indeed, some pushed for unconstitutional actions against the overwhelming views of legal experts.

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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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The Estrin Report

MARCH 16, 2025

How Trumps Upheaval is Reshaping Your Legal Career By Chere B. Initially, we envisioned a lighthearted discussion on emerging job trends in the legal field where opportunities were growing and how professionals could position themselves for success. Will You Survive? Today, I want to share that message with you.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 17, 2024

In granting what I have called “ White Knight pardons ,” Biden would achieve more of a political than legal purpose. Jonathan Turleyis the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University. He would establish with utter clarity that this power is not presidential, but personal and political.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 13, 2024

However, this constitutional looting would endanger not jut the Constitution but the country as a whole if Biden were to heed this advice. These calls come in the midst of a counter-constitutional movement led by law professors. You’re not done. You’ve still got 100 days left in office! You don’t answer to anyone.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 13, 2025

Court refuses to recognize parents’ rights A recent legal decision captured this growing divide. JonathanTurleyis the Shapiro professor of public interest law at George Washington University and the author of The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage. They and these experts have no inkling of what is coming.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 16, 2025

While the Administration believes that it can establish the legal basis for such use of the largely dormant law, the issuing of a temporary restraining order within hours of the EO was not unexpected. That is part of the process in a nation committed to the rule of law.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

JUNE 13, 2025

Washington , Trump v. In support of the Executive Order, attorneys for the Trump Administration argue that birthright citizenship does not include the children of legal and illegal aliens because such persons are not “subject to [U.S.] jurisdiction” as set forth in Constitution’s Citizenship Clause. On May 15, 2025, the U.S.

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Above The Law

JULY 3, 2025

(Photo by Bill O’Leary/The Washington Post via Getty Images) Justice Stephen Breyer may no longer sit on the Supreme Court, but he still has thoughts about his old workplace. Defenestration via Overton Window. Efforts to unilaterally elevate the conversation miss the mark because they fail to grasp this victory condition issue.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 11, 2022

justice system and reduce mass incarceration, argues a Washington and Lee University law professor. Expansion of the jury trial right would constitute a meaningful structural reform in democratizing criminal justice, at a time when such change is needed to establish the popular legitimacy of the criminal justice system,” writes J.D.

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LawSites

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

It was a bathroom break that inspired Bradley Neal , a 3L at The George Washington University Law School , to develop a product that uses generative AI to help law students better understand and brief cases. Gunnerbot is essentially the fully developed version of the quick query Neal did back in that law school class.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 7, 2021

After fleeing to Washington, the legislators claim that the criticism and threats made by the governor and other infringed on their constitutional rights to free speech and to petition the government for redress of grievances. It was an ironic moment as Democrats in Washington celebrated their act while they denounced filibusters.

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The Volokh Conspiracy

JUNE 30, 2025

The answer, I think, is that the Court hasn't generally recognized a constitutional right to get forbidden medical procedures for oneself , much less a right to get them for one's children. I think Sixth Circuit Judge Jeffrey Sutton correctly summarized the legal rules in L.W. Washington v.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

1 , the court struck down as unconstitutional voluntarily adopted plans for assigning students to public schools in the racially diverse cities of Seattle, Washington, and Louisville, Kentucky. Fiercely and pointedly, as the constitutional scholar Mark Tushnet explained in 2016, Roberts and Breyer were “contending over history.”.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

4] The Washington Post and other media outlets have also declared the President’s insistence that his family did not take money from China as false. [5] 13] Some of the deals negotiated by Hunter involved potential benefits for his father, including office space in Washington. [14] Post, Apr. 27, 2023. [13] 27, 2023. [14] 11, 2023.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 14, 2022

Depp is suing Heard for $50 million based largely on an 2018 Washington Post opinion piece where she described herself a survivor of domestic and sexual violence. It is a curious defense because it is not a legal defense. He still lost and the judge declared that the Sun published was “substantially true.”

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

In 2022, the American Bar Association required law schools to “provide education to law students on bias, cross-cultural competency, and racism: (1) at the start of the program of legal education, and (2) at least once again before graduation.” I have long incorporated race issues in my classes. Jonathan Turley is the J.B.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 15, 2023

These false narratives have been eagerly repeated in the media despite lacking legal or factual support. Here is the column: With the formal approval of the impeachment inquiry into the conduct of President Joe Biden, the alarm and denial in Washington has reached an almost hysterical level.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 8, 2022

The same concerns were raised this week after Washington Gov. Such a law would threaten political speech and create a chilling effect for those who want to raise such concerns in contested elections. ” That is precisely what such an ambiguous law would do in Washington state.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 11, 2023

I will be testifying on the legal and constitutional implications of the latest disclosures on government-supported censorship, including the work of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) at Homeland Security. The hearing at 2:00 pm is entitled “ Censorship Laundering: How the U.S.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 19, 2024

As an academic and a legal commentator, I have sometimes disagreed with the United States Supreme Court, but I often stress the good-faith differences in how certain rights or protections are interpreted. Jonathan Turleyis the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University. New London.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 11, 2021

The lack of case law was at the heart of the “fact check” of the PolitiFact. Such fact checks are often challenged as biased, including the well-known fact checking at the Washington Post ( here and here ). Such objections should be distinguished from complaints over distorting backgrounds , history history , or the law.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 18, 2024

Nadine Strossen , former president of the American Civil Liberties Union “Brilliant and intellectually honest, Jonathan Turley has few peers as a legal scholar today. Will , Pulitzer Prize winner and Washington Post columnist. The Indispensable Right is an indispensable book.” Jim Webb , former Democratic U.S.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

One issue to watch is how Judge Bruce Schroeder handles the gun count, which is based on what I believe is a flawed legal interpretation by the prosecution. Here is the column: The trial of Kyle Rittenhouse increasingly seems like a legal version of the parable of the blind men and the elephant. One man – not society – is on trial.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 15, 2024

Nadine Strossen , former president of the American Civil Liberties Union “Brilliant and intellectually honest, Jonathan Turley has few peers as a legal scholar today. Will , Pulitzer Prize winner and Washington Post columnist. The Indispensable Right is an indispensable book.” Jim Webb , former Democratic U.S.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 22, 2021

It stressed that this element requires a showing of “a bad purpose to disregard the law” and that “evidence that an officer acted out of fear, mistake, panic, misperception, negligence, or even poor judgment cannot establish the high level of intent.”. Will the Babbitt standard now apply. Reasonable people could disagree on the shooting.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 9, 2023

.” 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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JonathanTurley

JUNE 30, 2021

Executive Vice President & Chief Legal Officer, Hearst Corporation. Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law, The George Washington University Law School. Corporate Vice President, Customer Security & Trust, Microsoft Corporation. Eve Burton. Lynn Oberlander. Of Counsel, Ballard Spahr LLP. Mr. Jonathan Turley.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

However, even liberal scholars like Erwin Chemerinsky seem to concede that these reparation measures would face series legal headwinds in the courts. The likely legal challenges are not often considered in discussions of reparations — but they could create a highly combustible situation, if large reparations guarantees were suddenly negated.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 30, 2021

Recently, I was critical of a Washington Post column by University of California-Berkeley Dean Erwin Chemerinsky and Professor Aaron S. Edlin, who argued for a legal challenge of the recall election of Callifornia Gov. ” Nevertheless, the theory was pushed by the Washington Post and a host of liberal websites.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 18, 2024

Nadine Strossen , former president of the American Civil Liberties Union “Brilliant and intellectually honest, Jonathan Turley has few peers as a legal scholar today. Will , Pulitzer Prize winner and Washington Post columnist. The Indispensable Right is an indispensable book.” Jim Webb , former Democratic U.S.

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