JonathanTurley

MARCH 28, 2024

While I agree with the Fifth Circuit that it is largely locked into the existing precedent in cases like Arizona v. 387, 399 (2012), finding “field preemption” of state immigration laws. It is a bitter recognition for the state that the open border conditions are the product of federal laws and policies.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 3, 2024

Appeals of ballot decisions are pending in Arizona; ballot challenges are in process in Alaska, Maine , New York, New Jersey, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, South Carolina, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia and Wyoming. At the time, another rising star in Republican legal circles was getting her start as a young law firm associate.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 10, 2022

It is premised on a deeply flawed historical and legal view of a provision under the Fourteenth Amendment. The latest such ruling comes from the Arizona Supreme Court which ruled that Democrats could not prevent Rep. This effort failed on legal grounds in seeking to bar Rep. It has been rejected repeatedly in the courts.

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JUNE 27, 2022

Arizona does not provide a basis for civil damages under 42 U.S.C. The majority’s decision both hobbles Miranda ’s enforceability and unceremoniously strips the Constitution’s Fifth Amendment right against compelled self-incrimination of Miranda ’s prophylactic protection, heretofore regarded as criminal procedure canon in American law.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 14, 2021

Both reshaped American law and society. Both are legal titans who defeated a string of worthy contenders to reach the championship. Ask any constitutional law student to name the most iconic Supreme Court decision, and they’ll probably answer Marbury v. Arizona ), voting rights ( Baker v. Board of Education.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

It is the “why not” approach to criminal and constitutional law. This is one of the most dangerous legal theories to arise in decades.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Legal academics are divided on the new popular theory that former President Donald Trump can be removed from ballots under Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment. We’re going to get the liberal 9th Circuit to kick Trump off the ballot in Montana, Idaho, Nevada, and Arizona.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 9, 2022

Whether such state enforcement is constitutional will be hashed out in the courts in light of the 2012 decision in Arizona v. The legal difference is obvious. On immigration, however, it became more difficult just ten years ago with the Supreme Court’s decision in Arizona v. United States.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 28, 2022

One of those obvious steps discussed in earlier columns was to fire CEO Parag Agrawal, CFO Ned Segal and head of legal policy, trust, and safety Vijaya Gadde, the primary figures responsible for creating one of the largest censorship systems in history.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 20, 2021

Chris Collins as well as Joe Arpaio, the highly controversial former sheriff of Maricopa County, Arizona. That pattern continued on his last day with pardons for former Arizona Rep. Rick Renzi of Arizona who convicted of extortion, bribery, insurance fraud, money laundering, and racketeering. Duncan Hunter and former GOP Rep.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 23, 2022

There is an important ruling out of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit this week where a divided panel held that Kelli Ward, the Chair of the Arizona Republican Party and former senatorial candidate, cannot withhold her cell phone records from the January 6th Committee. That is quite sweeping. 1, 166 (Black, J.,

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JonathanTurley

JULY 5, 2021

Below is my column in the Hill on a series of cases that appear propelled by political rather than legal considerations. The costs to the legal system, the public, or victims in such cases are often overlooked but they are considerable. Nor is he alone in pursuing a case driven more by political than legal considerations.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 24, 2022

While castigating Trump counsel John Eastman for telling legislators to “just do it,” the same message seems to be coming from members and legal experts on some cable programs. As shown below, “just do it” is far better in selling running shoes than winning legal cases. Here is the column: “SECVNDINVS CACOR.”

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 23, 2022

Totenberg ruled that Greene’s critics could bring a challenge under the Constitution’s 14th Amendment, known as the “Disqualification Clause.” There are similar efforts to block members like Arizona GOP Reps. Cawthorn prevailed in a federal court, which dismissed that effort; an appeal of that ruling will be heard May 3 by the U.S.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 6, 2021

I have been a vocal critic of Feres for decades and wrote a three-part study of the military legal system 20 years ago that detailed how this doctrine began in 1950 with a clearly erroneous reading of the Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA). The West Point case shows the legal lunacy and lethality of this doctrine. For example, Lt.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

As someone who just came over to Fox News as a legal analyst from CBS and the BBC, the hearing concentrated my mind “wonderfully” on the future of free speech and the free press. But, then again, I did not think social media sites — given legal immunity in exchange for being content-neutral — would ever censor viewpoints.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

With the adverse ruling in Pennsylvania, the Trump legal team is still pledging new evidence of massive fraud as certifications are completed. The options for the team seem more and more reduced to the ultimate constitutional trick shot in engineering a fight on the floor of Congress.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 27, 2020

In the case of the disastrous press conference by the Trump legal team, I was highly critical of conspiracy theories laid out by Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell without support. However, there are many such controversies with a mixed of legal, political, and technical elements.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

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”. HERE ARE THE ADDITIONS TO THE CLIMATE CASE CHART SINCE UPDATE # 148. FEATURED CASE. Biden , No. 3:21-cv-00065 (S.D. July 12, 2021). BP p.l.c. ,

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 2, 2022

We have previously discussed the trial, which began with the introduction of evidence that the New York Times editorial board ignored internal objections to publishing the 2017 column linking Palin to the 2011 shooting in Tucson, Arizona in which then-U.S. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz was seriously injured. It is frankly absurd.

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