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Yielding to Temptation: Colorado’s Supreme Court Blocks Democracy to Bar Trump on the 2024 Ballot

JonathanTurley

Below is my column in The Messenger of the Colorado Supreme Court decision disqualifying former President Donald Trump from the 2024 election. Eleni Kounalakis publicly called upon the Secretary of State to “explore every legal option” to follow the same path as Colorado. In California, Lieutenant Gov.

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Foreign Child Marriages and Constitutional Law – German Constitutional Court Holds Parts of the German Act to Combat Child Marriages Unconstitutional

Conflict of Laws

The wife in the case had been fourteen when the case started in the first instance courts; she is now 22, and her marriage certainly no longer a child marriage. And as a matter of fact, the Constitutional Court decision itself is already almost two months old; it was rendered on February 1.

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Supreme Court Clarifies When Public Officials Can Be held Liable for Social Media Activity

Constitutional Law Reporter

Freed , 601 U.S. _ (2024), the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that public officials may be held liable for their social media activity in certain circumstances. The Sixth Circuit Court ruled that Freed was not liable because he maintained his Facebook page in his personal capacity. In Lindke v.

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Colorado Judge Rejects 14th Amendment Disqualification Effort to Bar Trump from Ballot

JonathanTurley

I have long been a vocal critic of the theory, which I view as historically and legally unfounded. In her 102-page ruling, Wallace declared that “[a]fter considering the arguments on both sides, the Court is persuaded that ‘officers of the United States’ did not include the President of the United States. I hope that she does.

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Unpacking by Packing the Court? The Left has a New Orwellian Mantra

JonathanTurley

As Democrats ramp up their efforts for the 2024 election, some are dangling an old enticement from 2020: if we win, we can pack the Court. In the last election, President Joe Biden refused to say if he favored packing the Court.

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