JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Second, when Congress decided on the location for the capital, it took land from both Maryland and Virginia, but left those states in charge of the federal territory for ten years. Those include persons living permanently overseas and even extends to those who have never lived in any state – such as children of expatriates.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

I have the pleasure of speaking this morning at the University of Maryland Law School as part of the Law Review’s annual symposium on constitutional law. I will be on the first panel at 10:15 at the law school.

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APRIL 14, 2021

Ask any constitutional law student to name the most iconic Supreme Court decision, and they’ll probably answer Marbury v. Maryland : “[W]e must never forget that it is a constitution we are expounding.” But enough with March Madness melodrama. This is the final round of the Big Dance, and it’s time to vote.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 11, 2023

That case presents a line drawing issue that I discuss in my forthcoming law review article, The Unfinished Masterpiece: Compulsion and the Evolving Jurisprudence over Free Speech, 82 Maryland Law Rev. forthcoming 2023).

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 13, 2022

San Francisco Regional Director Jill Coffman declared that the company is violating the rights of workers in 10 different states (Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Virginia, Maryland, Georgia, Washington, Indiana, and California). In her consolidated complaint against Whole Foods Market, Inc.,

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 19, 2021

Under this plan, the city would maintain unique elements in a phased retrocession back to Maryland. Both Maryland and the District could benefit from such a plan in my view. Retrocession refers to returning the district from whence it came: to Maryland. citizens their representational rights as Marylanders.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 29, 2023

So here is the list to see if you are residing in an anti-free speech state: Arizona Colorado Connecticut Delaware Hawaii Illinois Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Nevada New Jersey New Mexico, New York Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island Vermont Washington Wisconsin District of Columbia Here is the brief: Missouri v.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 31, 2021

The columnists laid squarely before the reader their interest in ending what they deemed a “frivolous” debate among politicians over whether Mr. Ollman’s political beliefs should bar him from becoming head of the Department of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 17, 2022

Montgomery County, Maryland, officials have proposed to bar the legal right to carry firearms “in or within 100 yards of a place of public assembly.”. That includes simply passing through Times Square.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 27, 2022

Barnett is the Patrick Hotung professor of constitutional law at the Georgetown University Law Center and the faculty director of the Georgetown Center for the Constitution. Bruen can be analyzed at the level of policy or at the level of constitutional method. New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 28, 2021

Under my proposal, the mall and core federal buildings would remain the District of Columbia (as is the case in this legislation) but the remainder of the District would retrocede back to Maryland (as did the other half of the original District to Virginia).

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 21, 2020

As Chief Justice Marshall wrote regarding the Necessary and Proper Clause: “Let the end be legitimate, let it be within the scope of the constitution, and all means which are appropriate, which are plainly adapted to that end, which are not prohibited, but consist with the letter and spirit of the constitution, are constitutional.”

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 24, 2022

Yet, there is virtually no mention of Jackson’s position on an advisory board for the now-defunct Montrose Christian School in Rockville, Maryland. The group once referred to female leaders as “ handmaids ,” and liberal commentators had a field day with vicious and vulgar assaults.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 15, 2025

” The district court found the orders in the Maryland case to be unconstitutionally “vague” and chilled free speech.

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AUGUST 4, 2021

The Supreme Court called the appellate court’s conclusion that there are always reasonable legal alternatives to disobeying constitutional laws “untenable,” and held that “reasonable legal alternatives” must be effective. July 8, 2021). BP p.l.c. , Two amicus briefs were filed in support of the companies, one by the U.S.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 23, 2021

” What is most interesting about this lawsuit is how it is arguably meritless under both tort and constitutional law. This is a classic example where opinion is protected under tort and constitutional law. Trump could argue truth as a defense and fall back on opinion is needed in any litigation.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 11, 2024

Elias was back in the news in another major defeat in Maryland. He filed in support of an abusive gerrymandering of the election districts that a court found violated not only violated Maryland law but the state constitution’s equal protection, free speech and free elections clauses.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 26, 2022

While only 55 percent of Maryland identifies as Democratic , the map would have given Democrats a huge advantage in every district by carefully “cracking” or distributing Republican voting pockets to diffuse their power. This is the first time that a congressional map has been thrown out in the history of the state. (It

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 28, 2021

Andy Harris of Maryland and Ralph Norman of South Carolina formally announced impeachment articles against Secretary of State Antony J. Once again, the use of impeachment to address such policy and programmatic “failures” would fundamentally change the purpose of impeachment in our constitutional system.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 22, 2022

That was followed by another blistering decision striking down the Democratic plan for Maryland as “ extreme partisan gerrymandering.” We previously discussed how a New York judge struck down the new voting districts pushed through by Democrats as unconstitutional gerrymandering.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Yet, No Labels did meet the requirement in Maryland recently for party recognition. The group noted that signature requirements are lower for candidates if they seek to run as individuals as opposed to seeking the addition of a party. That is correct, though the signature requirements can still be daunting.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 3, 2023

I recently spoke at the University of Maryland with George Mason law professor Ilya Somin, who argues that the claims of Missouri satisfy standing. This is a clearly unconstitutional action by the President that is being defended largely on the basis of, in my view, an unnecessarily narrow view of standing imposed by the courts.

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