Constitutional Law Litigating Virginia 
JonathanTurley
APRIL 15, 2022
Below is my column in the Hill on the litigation over the new admissions policy at the elite Thomas Jefferson High School in Fairfax, Virginia. Here is the column: A small, exclusive public high school in Northern Virginia is emerging this month as a major battleground over free speech and academic integrity.
Constitutional Law Reporter
MARCH 5, 2024
Ohio, Indiana, and West Virginia filed suit, arguing that EPA’s rulemaking process circumvented the Clean Air Act’s cooperative-federalism mandate by forcing its own top-down control over state-level air-pollution reduction, and moved to stay the federal plan pending judicial review.
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JonathanTurley
OCTOBER 12, 2021
One of the briefs written in support of the district in the recent litigation was from constitutional scholars, including my colleague Alan B. Morrison, Lerner Family Associate Dean at George Washington Law School. I reached out to Professor Morrison to see if he would offer a response on the ruling and the underlying issues.
SCOTUSBlog
NOVEMBER 2, 2022
Under Section 2255(h), a prisoner can bring a second or successive petition based only on facts that clearly demonstrate actual innocence or a new rule of constitutional law that the Supreme Court has made retroactive. There is no provision for new rules of statutory interpretation.
JonathanTurley
OCTOBER 18, 2021
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.
JonathanTurley
MAY 22, 2022
We have already seen successful litigation challenging mandatory pronoun usage, including the recent litigation involving a teacher in Loudoun County , Virginia. The use of such a guide by a state school would raise serious First Amendment issues.
JonathanTurley
APRIL 14, 2022
.'” Captain Jack Sparrow’s clarification in the movie Pirates of the Caribbean could prove useful when actor Johnny Depp takes the stand in his defamation case in Fairfax, Virginia against his former wife, Amber Heard. Depp and Heard were married for just over a year but have already spent three times than that in litigation.
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