SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Share The Petitions of the Week column highlights some of the cert petitions recently filed in the Supreme Court. This week, we highlight petitions that ask the court to consider, among other things, whether cellphones are similarly entitled to greater Fourth Amendment protection than other belongings at the U.S. In Mendez v.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Here is the column: This past week the American Civil Liberties Union honored the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the one-year anniversary of her death — by rewriting her famous defense of a woman’s right to abortion to remove offensive language. This already is being litigated in some lower courts.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 4, 2024

Now, the Biden administration has arrested Baker on four misdemeanor charges linked to his entry into the Capitol on that day. Des Moines Register reporter Andrea Sahouri was tried on simple misdemeanors for failure to disperse and interference with official acts. Ohio, 378 U.S. She was acquitted. Jonathan Turley is the J.B.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

faces a misdemeanor simple assault charge for allegedly intentionally blowing on people. Some things are happily left out of the courts. One such case now in court was brought by Amanda DuVall, 28. She is asking for $75,000 but Walmart moved the case to federal court and is contesting the case. For example, in Weirum v.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 6, 2021

Finally, the scholars believe that Trump’s speech and actions on that day amount to the “deliberate incitement of others to engage in imminent lawless acts” which is criminally punishable under the standard laid down by the Supreme Court in Brandenburg v.

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SCOTUSBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Share The Petitions of the Week column highlights a selection of cert petitions recently filed in the Supreme Court. A day later, Trump posted on his Truth Social account that “ the Supreme Court must intercede.” A federal district court in Washington agreed and dismissed the obstruction charges. 6 attack on the U.S.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Since there is not even a requirement that a high crime and misdemeanor be an actual crime, few argue that there is a categorical bar on the use of speech for the basis of impeachment under the First Amendment. That may be technically true in the sense of an actual defense to enjoin or bar impeachment in court.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Criminologically speaking, how does a schism exist between his 2024 supporters who believe in Trump’s persecution by the state and those who oppose the habitually corrupt former president’s third run for POTUS as Trump continues to provoke violence in violation of court orders not to?

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 27, 2022

” In modern American politics, it often seems like the only tool is impeachment and every controversy instantly becomes a high crime and misdemeanor. In January, the House won an 8-1 victory before the Supreme Court, which rejected Trump’s privilege objections to the release of White House materials. Kamala Harris and Sen.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 24, 2024

It was the criminal theory itself that seemed crafted around the standard for obscenity famously described by Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart in the case of Jacobellis v. Ohio , 378 U.S. We have never seen a case like this one where a dead misdemeanor from 2016 could be revived as a felony just before any election in 2024.

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