Constitutional Law Reporter

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Office of Disciplinary Counsel of Supreme Court of Ohio , 471 U.S. The post SCOTUS Remands Content Moderation Cases But Still Delivers First Amendment Lessons appeared first on Constitutional Law Reporter. The Eleventh Circuit similarly found that the statute’s individualized-explanation requirements were likely to fall.

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JUNE 7, 2022

Northern District of Ohio. Shapiro Professor Of Public Interest Law. The George Washington University Law School. Fellow, Liberty And National Security Program, Brennan Center For Justice. Former Special Agent, Federal Bureau of Investigation. Washington, D.C. Garnell Whitfield, Jr. Buffalo, NY. Former U.S. Cleveland, OH.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

City of Pharm in which an Ohio man was prosecuted for posting a parody of his local police department. Some of us have been following the Novak case as an important free speech case after Anthony Novak was prosecuted for a parody on Facebook to mock the police department in Parma, Ohio. Image from Supreme Court Petition.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 3, 2024

Born in Ohio in 1927 to a coal miner and union organizer, she is going strong and retains her great sense of humor. I obviously hold a different view of free speech and I welcome the chance to have a civil discussion with lawyers with different viewpoints.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 8, 2022

Indeed, this seems like an effort to evade the constitutional limits placed on incitement crimes by the courts. The Inslee law would create a new and vague category for violent speech. In Brandenburg v.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 14, 2022

There is an interesting case out of Ohio where the state Supreme Court has ruled that Lake County Common Pleas Court Judge Eugene Lucci erred when he gave Manson Bryant, 35, an added six years after Bryant called him “racist as f**k.” That sentence was upheld by an appellate court but the Ohio Supreme Court reversed in a 4-3 opinion.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

My column yesterday discussed the increasing trend to treat the failure to use a person’s preferred pronouns (called “misgendering”) a type of hate speech or discriminatory conduct. A new case highlights the free speech problems associated with the trend. In Meriwether v.

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LegalReader

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Ohio lawmakers have introduced new anti-abortion bill.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Today I have the honor of speaking to the judges and lawyers in the 2022 Ohio Judicial conference on the Supreme Court in Columbus, Ohio. I will be discussing the last year of cases and controversies for the Court from leaks to threats as well as the recent and upcoming decisions.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Ohio Department of Youth Service involves an Ohio woman, Marlean Ames, who claims she was discriminated against for being straight as less-qualified LGBT colleagues in Ohio’s youth corrections system were promoted. Supreme Court will hear a case with potentially sweeping implications for discrimination cases.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 14, 2021

Ask any constitutional law student to name the most iconic Supreme Court decision, and they’ll probably answer Marbury v. Ohio and Miranda v. But enough with March Madness melodrama. This is the final round of the Big Dance, and it’s time to vote. Here’s the championship match-up. 1 John Marshall vs. 3 Earl Warren.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 12, 2023

and Jim Jordan (R-Ohio). 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. Yet, not one Democrat broke ranks and voted to prevent such chaos. Steve Scalise (R-La.)

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 15, 2021

The United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit this week upheld an Ohio law that bans doctors from performing abortions when they know the reason a woman is seeking an abortion is that her baby has Down syndrome. The new law, H.B. It is a major win for pro-life advocates but could face an appeal to the Supreme Court.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

MARCH 17, 2025

Ohio Department of Youth Services : The case involvesthe standard courts apply in discrimination claims brought by majority group plaintiffs. The post Supreme Court Kicks Off February Argument Session appeared first on Constitutional Law Reporter. 3553(a)(2)(A) from 18 U.S.C. Please check back for updates.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 13, 2022

This was a man who was born enslaved, became a renowned horseracing pioneer, made a fortune in the Gold Rush, brought American thoroughbreds to compete in England, and then emerged as the leading African American politician in the most politically important state, Ohio. As you describe it, conservatives saw the tax as “Socialism in action.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 13, 2023

Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Ohio charged Durant with a “federal misdemeanor charge under the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act.”

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 15, 2022

Share Under established constitutional law, states may generally not tax or regulate property or operations of the federal government. A 1936 federal law waives federal immunity from state workers’ compensation laws on federal land and projects. This principle is known as intergovernmental immunity. Washington.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Ohio , 378 U.S. 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. 184 (1964): “I shall not today attempt further to define [it] … But I know it when I see it.”

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 13, 2022

My grandfather was a union organizer and a coal miner who developed black lung in the mines of Ohio. Despite the prejudice that they encountered and difficult times, my Sicilian grandparents celebrated Independence Day like a religious holiday and often discussed their pride when they became American citizens.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

He was charged with (and later acquitted of) a felony under an Ohio law prohibiting the use of a computer to “disrupt” or “interrupt” police functions. City of Parma, in which Anthony Novak was prosecuted for posting a parody of the website of his local police department.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 25, 2023

In Ohio, Shawnee State University Professor Nicholas Meriwether, won a major appeal before the Sixth Circuit, which reversed a lower court that initially upheld his punishment for not using a student’s designated pronoun choices. We have discussed the last name option in earlier posts, including the settlement in the Meriwether case.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 23, 2024

Ohio , 378 U.S. As written, this bill is too vague and too broad to pass constitutional muster under existing precedent. The bill is presumptively unconstitutional in my view, but the Court made an unholy mess of this area in its rulings on obscenity.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 13, 2022

Below is my column on the case of the ten-year-old rape victim who allegedly was taken to Indiana because an abortion was barred in Ohio. (A There remain, however, questions as to why the child had to leave Ohio, which has exceptions that would apply to the case. A shorter, edited version of this column ran in the New York Post ).

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 4, 2024

JD Vance, R-Ohio, cited the massive system of censorship supported by Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate. Ohio , Goldman cut me off and said, “ We don’t need a law class here.” Here is the column: In the vice presidential debate Tuesday, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz pulled the fire alarm. His opponent, Sen.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 26, 2022

Addressing the scope of this right is key to defining and supporting this right in constitutional law. However, many politicians are pushing an unlimited view of the right that raises both constitutional and political questions — an approach that far exceeds what the current Roe case law supports. Senate in Ohio.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

In Ohio, Shawnee State University Professor Nicholas Meriwether, won a major appeal before the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit which reversed a lower court that initially upheld his punishment for using a student’s designated pronoun choices.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Senate candidate Tim Ryan (D-Ohio) has adopted an absolute position that there should be no limits on a woman’s right to abortion — far beyond anything in Roe or Casey — and has refused to address whether this would mean that a fully formed baby in the ninth month of pregnancy could be aborted.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Ohio, a 1969 case involving “violent speech,” the court struck down an Ohio law prohibiting public speech that was deemed as promoting illegal conduct. While the Supreme Court has allowed limited exceptions, it does not bestow on the government the open right to strip protection of speech because it is deemed “hateful.”

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Previously, MSNBC legal analyst and Michigan Law Professor Barbara McQuade told MSNBC viewers that Trump could be charged with manslaughter for his role in the January 6 Capitol riot. This would fail for the same reason. In Brandenburg v.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 7, 2021

In 1877, to quote from a speech of Ohio Sen. Allen Granberry Thurman, “It was perfectly clear that any bill that gave the least advantage, ay, the weight of the dust in the balance, to either party, could not become the law of the land.”.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 2, 2021

In Ohio, $1 million lottery prizes were offered to those willing to take the shots; other states offered free metro or free museum passes. For people already distrustful of the government, the censorship and overheated rhetoric only confirm their suspicions. Government officials then shifted from reasoned to induced or compensated consent.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), who have already been told to preserve their phone records to be surrendered to the committee. With those words , House Select Committee Chair Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) confirmed that a subpoena storm was about to be unleashed in the investigation of the Jan. 6 riot in Congress.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 8, 2021

Bush’s victory over Democratic challenger John Kerry in the state of Ohio. She does not call for those Democratic members to be expelled. In January 2005, Boxer joined former Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones to challenge George W. I was working for CBS in that election and shared concerns over the voting irregularities.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

challenged the certification of Ohio’s electoral votes in 2004 , no one suggested criminal investigations. (I have stated repeatedly that I do not see the evidence of systemic voting problems to reverse such state results and I have criticized President Trump’s rhetoric). However, when Democrats like Sen. Barbara Boxer (D.,

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 6, 2021

A letter signed by 144 constitutional law scholars and circulated Friday characterizes as “legally frivolous” ex-President Donald Trump’s First Amendment -based defense in his impeachment trial slated to start in the US Senate on February 8.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 20, 2022

Ohio , the Supreme Court ruled in 1969 that even calling for violence is protected under the First Amendment unless there is a threat of “ imminent lawless action and is likely to incite or produce such action.”. Come on my Chinese folks, white graduating is open season for y’all.”. That is legitimately concerning and chilling language.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 1, 2021

Bush’s victory over Democratic challenger John Kerry in the state of Ohio. Barbara Boxer who led such a challenge to the 2004 election results. In January 2005, Boxer joined former Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones to challenge George W. I was working for CBS in that election and shared concerns over the voting irregularities.

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