JonathanTurley

MAY 19, 2021

One of the greatest threats to free speech is the chilling effect caused by ambiguous or vague standards like the one contained in this statute. Most concerning is the call for European style speech limits in this country. Free speech demands bright lines. It is never popular to fight for the free speech rights of individuals like Bartow.

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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. You can find his updates on Twitter @JonathanTurley.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 25, 2021

50-5-85’s inclusion of “other actions that are intended to limit commercial relations with Israel” makes the statute impermissibly vague. In addition, we have faced these controversies on campuses, including on the George Washington University campus. O.C.G.A. § Recently, the U.S.

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APRIL 15, 2022

Share Under established constitutional law, states may generally not tax or regulate property or operations of the federal government. Washington. A 1936 federal law waives federal immunity from state workers’ compensation laws on federal land and projects. Washington implicitly contemplates such situations.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 27, 2021

Washington in light of its decision. State of Washington and Arlene’s Flowers v. Stutzman the owner added a religious hostility claim after Masterpiece cakeshp but on June 6, 2019, the Washington Supreme Court unanimously ruled against Stutzman. .” It then had yet another opportunity this term. Arlene’s Flowers v.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Lauren Handy and nine other anti-abortion activists were charged last year with conspiring to obstruct access to a Washington abortion clinic on Oct. They have asked for the dismissal of the indictment for lack of jurisdiction since the Court ruled in Dobbs that “the Constitution does not confer a right to abortion.”

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

The Washington Post has been criticized for running a column by Aaron Tang , professor of law at the University of California at Davis, claiming an originalist basis for the right to abortion. The scholars objected that the Washington Post published many historical errors to suggest an originalist basis for abortion.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 4, 2023

Washington, 418 U.S. California provides the standard for determining “obscenity” under the law.” Expressive conduct includes dance because it is “sufficiently imbued with elements of communication to fall within the scope of the First and Fourteenth Amendments.” 405, 409 (1974).

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JonathanTurley

JULY 16, 2024

The 93-page order methodically goes through the governing cases and statutes for the appointment of prosecutors. There has long been a debate over how an attorney general like Merrick Garland can circumvent the constitutional process for the appointment of a U.S.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 9, 2023

Newsom cited the kidnapping statute but apparently failed to read it or the underlying cases. 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 13, 2022

Regrettably, too many First Amendment experts, like George Washington Law School Professor Jonathan Turley , have adopted what I termed a generation ago First Amendment exceptionalism. This dangerous attitude turns ‘Congress shall make no law. . in the discharge of his duty, pickets or parades. United States , 561 U.S.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

But it also is a generally-worded statute that can be interpreted broadly, and I expect a split in court decisions — and that only increases the likelihood of a Supreme Court review. It also will need more than a hard-hat rationale in this “hard case,” if it wants to avoid bad law.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 8, 2022

Now, the Delaware Supreme Court has rejected a Democratic universal mail-in voting law as unconstitutional. The Delaware Supreme Court ruled on Friday that a state law enacting universal mail-in voting violated the state’s constitution. The provision states with specificity the grounds for such absentee voting: §4A.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 19, 2021

It is political merit — rather than legal merit — that has often propelled New York anti-gun laws. In this latest effort, the state sought to aim big by using an exception under the law if a company “knowingly violated a state or federal statute applicable to the sale or marketing” of firearms.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 24, 2024

The only way to get beyond the passage of the statute of limitations on the dead misdemeanor for falsifying business records had been to allege that the bookkeeping violation in question occurred to conceal another crime. Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at the George Washington University School of Law.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 11, 2021

Here is the column: When Joe Biden nominated Merrick Garland to be attorney general, many — including me — heralded Garland as an honorable, apolitical judge who would follow the law. He was not, the Washington Post editors insisted , “a lackey who will serve as the president’s personal attorney” like Donald Trump ‘s AGs.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 3, 2023

It is rather through a different statute , the Higher Education Act of 1965. That is a constitutional debt that should not be forgiven. Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University. Follow him on Twitter @JonathanTurley.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 25, 2022

It was clear from the outset that Jackson would not discuss her judicial philosophy on interpreting the Constitution or statutes — the very issue Democratic senators cited in voting against Barrett in 2020. Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 31, 2022

During an illustrious career as a constitutional law scholar and a top Supreme Court advocate, Walter Dellinger argued 24 times before the court, including in some of the biggest cases of the past 30 years. Dellinger lost both of those cases, but he notched plenty of victories, including in Washington v.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

The Washington Post confirmed that the United States is one of only seven out of the world’s 198 countries that allow for abortions after the 20th week of pregnancy.). The court ruled 5-4 to allow the Texas law to be enforced. Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 21, 2022

While there are a couple of longer trial decisions, most of Jackson’s record does not clearly establish her interpretative approach to the Constitution or statutes. Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University. Follow him on Twitter @JonathanTurley.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

However, the range of permissible state action is likely to be decided not by Congress but by the court, based not on a Texas law but on a Mississippi statute. Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University. You can find his updates on Twitter @JonathanTurley.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 3, 2021

The case involving computer fraud is interesting to some of us for its says about the intricacies of the federal statute. Demand Justice is pushing the court packing scheme and had a billboard truck in Washington the next day in the streets of Washington warning “Breyer, retire. Don’t risk your legacy.”

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Brandon Hasbrouck is an assistant professor at Washington and Lee University School of Law, has written an article in The Nation calling for a new form of reparations based on voting. This proposal would decouple voting rights from cases and statutes designed to protect the equality of voting. t is ours, too. It must be ours.”.

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AUGUST 4, 2021

Washington Supreme Court Said Climate Activist Was Entitled to Present Necessity Defense Based on Evidence that Legal Alternatives Were Not “Truly Reasonable”. State of Washington ex rel. The court declined to exercise supplemental jurisdiction over the plaintiff’s state law claims and dismissed them without prejudice.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 2, 2022

The Washington Post was quick to breathlessly declare that the time had finally come. Judge Carter notes that Eastman still believes that the statute is unconstitutional as written. The declarations by the court have led to a frenzy in the media and renewed calls for the prosecution of the former president.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Moreover, they testified that the statute of limitations on the most serious charges related to these foreign payments were knowingly allowed to expire by the Justice Department, even though it would have been possible to extend the statute of limitations. First, there are the tax violations.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 15, 2023

Classified documents have been discovered in Biden’s possession at several locations, hundreds of miles apart, ranging from a prior office in Washington, D.C., Lying to investigators is itself a federal crime — removing any questions over statutes of limitation. to his home and his garage in Delaware.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

While the Justice Department allowed the statutes of limitations to run on various felonies, Hunter would be faced with a new set of charges with years for criminal charges to be brought by prosecutors. That may now change. If Hunter lies to congressional investigators, he can be charged with a federal crime. That will now change.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Moreover, publications are protected in most states by retraction statutes limiting or blocking damages for corrected stories. ” What we really need is an airing out – not of the constitutional standard but of its application to non-public officials. Finally, opinion is already protected from defamation actions.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 7, 2020

From bribery statutes to constitutional provisions, legal experts routinely and unfailingly conclude that Trump or his family can be prosecuted or impeached for an endless array of misdeeds. One of the longest standing debates in constitutional law is dismissed as ill-informed by some of the same experts.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 25, 2024

From the descriptions in the Washington Post, New York Times and virtually every mainstream media outlet, you would think that Cannon was a freak in the courtroom, raving uncontrollably at any passerby. Attorneys be appointed under statute or nominated by the president (and confirmed by the Senate). Jonathan Turley is the J.B.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 21, 2021

In Louisiana, a federal court enjoined the administration from carrying out its halting of gas and oil leases, finding that Biden’s unilateral action violated the separation of powers under the Constitution. In Washington, D.C., President Biden has declared that “every country faces challenges to the rule of law, including my own.”

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

According to the Washington Post , Dana Nessel “is conferring with election law experts on whether officials may have violated any state laws prohibiting them from engaging in bribery, perjury and conspiracy.” The fraud statutes, we held in McNally, were “limited in scope to the protection of property rights.”

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 26, 2023

I also raised the problem of an investigation that remained ongoing for years as the statute of limitations expired on major potential crimes. The two witnesses testified that the Justice Department instead allowed the statute of limitations to expire. It turns out that the same concerns were being raised within the Weiss team.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 1, 2024

The charges were built on a dead misdemeanor barred with the passage of the statute of limitations. Jonathan Turley is an attorney and professor at George Washington University Law School. Even after sitting in the courtroom watching the trial and the verdict, I still have no idea what Trump was convicted of in the case.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 4, 2021

Usually when the court is about to issue a major interpretation of a federal statute, the Justice Department will wait to read the opinion before filing a major action. Instead, the administration filed the challenge to Georgia’s new voting law just days before the end of the term. For example, Biden declared, “it’s sick.

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