The Crime Report

MARCH 25, 2022

For three days, Americans watched the Senate Judiciary Committee hold what were called confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson. The question of being “hard” or “soft” on crime should not be an issue that defines the qualifications of a Supreme Court Justice. The hearings barely lived up to the name.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

Now, the Michigan Attorney General and others are suggesting that Republicans who oppose certification or even meet with President Donald Trump on the issue could be criminally investigated or charged. On Friday afternoon, leaders of Michigan’s Republican-controlled state legislature met with Trump in the White House at his invitation.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Supreme Court begins its new term next month, the justices will hear two potential landmark cases involving affirmative action. The primary issue in both cases is whether the Court should reverse its decision in Grutter v. Issues Before the Supreme Court. The issues before the Court in Students for Fair Admissions v.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 29, 2022

In an unanimous 6-0 ruling, the Michigan Supreme Court held that her office committed a fatal and inexplicable error in prosecuting nine officials for the Flint water crisis, including former Gov. Rick Snyder.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Wade after the Supreme Court refused to enjoin a Texas anti-abortion law in an emergency filing. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez announced that the Supreme Court just “overturned” Roe in the order. At issue is a Texas law that would effectively gut Roe v. Any challenge to the law could be expedited on appeal.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Supreme Court had a busy week, hearing oral arguments in five cases. The primary issue in both cases is whether the Court should reverse its decision in Grutter v. The primary issue in both cases is whether the Court should reverse its decision in Grutter v. Below is a brief summary of the other cases before the Court: Cruz v.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 3, 2024

Below is my column in The Messenger on the challenge facing the Supreme Court in the coming week over the electoral disqualification of former president Donald Trump in Colorado and Maine. The appeal in Maine has been filed and can now work its way up to the Court. Colorado is expected to file with the Court this week.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

APRIL 18, 2023

Supreme Court held that a deaf student seeking compensatory damages under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) for the denial of a free and appropriate education may proceed without exhausting the administrative processes of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) because the remedy sought is not one IDEA provides.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Supreme Court struck down the college admissions programs of Harvard University and the University of North Carolina. The Court held that the raced-based policies violated the Constitution’s Equal Protection Clause. In both cases, the lower courts upheld the admissions policies, and Students for Fair Admissions appealed.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

MARCH 9, 2021

S. _ (2021), the Supreme Court ruled that the Federal Tort Claims Act barred college student James King’s claims of police brutality. The Court unanimously held that the district court’s dismissal of King’s claims under the FTCA triggered the “judgment bar” in 28 U.S.C. In Brownback v. King ,592 U.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 8, 2022

Share This week we highlight cert petitions that ask the Supreme Court to consider, among other things, whether the Constitution permits state courts to play a role in congressional redistricting and whether plaintiffs can hold cities liable when city employees violate federal protections for people with disabilities.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Now, a filing in the Supreme Court supporting censorship efforts by the Biden Administration has supplied a handy list of the anti-free speech states for citizens. Not surprisingly, the state of California is leading the effort to get the Supreme Court to reverse a decision enjoining the government from censorship efforts.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 7, 2022

Now a Harvard poll reaffirms earlier polling that shows most Americans embrace views closer to Mississippi than Michigan on abortion. Indeed, while Democratic leaders denounced the Mississippi law setting a 15-week limit on abortion, 72 percent of those polled support that limit. Supreme Court overturned Roe v.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 5, 2024

These efforts show how this theory could place this country on a slippery slope to political chaos if not clearly and finally rejected by the Supreme Court. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Jamaal Bowman and Ritchie Torres and “Squad” members Ilhan Omar of Minnesota and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan. Scott Perry. Cori Bush (D-Mo.)

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 25, 2024

Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows lost another attempt to force review of her disqualification “decision” before the United States Supreme Court hears arguments on the issue on Feb. The Maine Supreme Court declined to review the matter. A year after the riot , Bellows was still denouncing the “violent insurrection.”

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 30, 2022

Below is my column in the Wall Street Journal on President Joe Biden’s promise almost two years ago that he would only consider a black female for the first vacancy on the Supreme Court. The three leading candidates are Justice Leondra Krueger of the California Supreme Court, U.S. That is not true.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Below is my column in The Hill on the start of the new Term for the Supreme Court. ” Does that make the three liberals justices voting together on the Court the “judicial arm of the Democratic Party”? .” That is, of course, manifestly true for the highest court in the land. I was wrong. Of course not.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Here is the column: Forty-four years ago, the Supreme Court was the center of a raging protest by thousands as the justices took up the case of Regents of the University of California v. As a teenage congressional page, I was one of the faces in that crowd gathered around the court in October 1977 to watch history being made.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 18, 2022

Here is the column: Throughout its history, the Supreme Court has overturned long-standing precedents, as it did recently in Dobbs v. In the law, the adjustment can take years, as collateral doctrines and applications shake out along new fault lines. Wade as federal law.” Jackson Women’s Health Organization.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Gretchen Whitmer for her misrepresentation of a state supreme court ruling that she violated the state constitution in her pandemic orders, a false account echoed by NBC’s Chuck Todd. Whitmer did violate the Constitution, as have other public officials in other states. I have been highly critical of Gov.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Under Florida law, if the party approves only one name, there will be no primary ballots at all. In states from Colorado to Michigan, Democratic operatives are arguing that Trump must be taken off the ballots because he gave “aid and comfort” to an “insurrection or rebellion.” This is not unprecedented. 6 Capitol riot. and Maurice C.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 12, 2021

Below is my column in The Hill on President Joe Biden’s Commission on the Supreme Court. While the Commission is likely to make recommendations for “reforms,” the genesis of the Commission was to consider the court packing scheme that was widely discussed during the 2020 presidential election.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 24, 2021

However, Trask was also key to the arrest of men in the alleged plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. In the Michigan case, six men are charged with a conspiracy that involved kidnapping Whitmer but news outlets like BuzzFeed News have raised serious concerns over how much of the conspiracy was directed and facilitated by the FBI.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 30, 2023

The decision of the Supreme Court to end the use of race in college admissions was not unexpected. Yet, President Joe Biden seemed to go into full attack mode and actually claimed that the Court gutted the constitutional guarantee that “all men and women are created equal.”

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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. the outcomes in Georgia, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania were worryingly close.”. In 1964, the Supreme Court handed down Reynolds v.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

Judge Wallace rejected the use of the amendment to prevent voters from voting for Trump in the 2024 election, declaring that “[t]he Court holds there is scant direct evidence regarding whether the presidency is one of the positions subject to disqualification.” Accordingly, “[t]he Court orders the Secretary of State to place Donald J.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 1, 2021

The Wisconsin Supreme Court blocked Democratic Gov. It is similar to a ruling rejecting orders by Michigan Gov. The dissenting justice adopted the most convoluted and artificial construct to ignore the plain meaning of the controlling state law. Gretchen Whitmer. We conclude he did not.” Act 109, § 340L.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 2, 2023

There is an interesting debate unfolding around the country in the aftermath of the Supreme Court barring the use of race in college admissions. For decades, colleges and universities have sought to downplay the weight given to race in court while insisting that it was one of a number of factors used in maintaining diversity.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

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.” 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

JUNE 27, 2022

That world is already taking shape with states crafting their laws reflecting the values of their citizens from Colorado passing a law protecting the right to abortion up to the moment of birth to Louisiana banning all abortions except in limited circumstances. Below is my Hill column on what to expect in a post-Roe world.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 12, 2022

It appears, however, that Eve’s defense had greater success in Michigan this week after a jury failed to convict a single member of the alleged conspiracy to kidnap and execute Gov. That collapse is now complete after a Michigan jury acquitted two of the four men tried for the conspiracy and then hung on the other two.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

With 382 saleswomen and models, the court found that the group was too large. However, with the 25 salesmen, the court found that an action could be maintained. I was, therefore, gladdened by the Supreme Court ruling 8-1 in favor of free speech in the case, even if it meant a victory for odious Westboro Church.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 25, 2021

The problem is that the courts already recognize some religious exemption arguments. Those arguments are based on both the constitutional protection of religious values but also laws like Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, 42 U.S.C. There is a move in many states to refuse to allow such exemptions, but courts have pushed back.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 27, 2022

Below is my column in the Hill on the Supreme Court accepting two cases dealing with racial preferences in college admissions. Here is the column: Last year, I wrote about the Supreme Court’s “train whistle” docket with cases on abortion, guns, immigration, and other issues barreling down the track. Second, courts change.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 22, 2023

Five members recently made public comments against Israel in rallies in Washington: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York , Ilhan Omar of Minnesota , Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts , Rashida Tlaib of Michigan and Cori Bush of Missouri. Moreover, the courts have rejected the use of exclusion in Powell v.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Experts like Harvard law professor Laurence Tribe have previously declared Trump’s felonies were shown “without any doubt, beyond a reasonable doubt, beyond any doubt, and the crimes are obvious.” That speech appears protected by the First Amendment and existing Supreme Court precedent. At 4:17 p.m., In Brandenburg v.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 28, 2023

A professor at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, has been suspended after posting threatening statements on social media posts that suggested that people would be justified in killing speakers who hold opposing views on issues like transgender policies. Wayne State University President M.

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