JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

This morning I will be joining the live coverage of the Supreme Court of the arguments over the disqualification of former President Donald Trump from the Colorado ballot under the 14th Amendment. We can expect the justices to focus on the three main questions before the Court: 1. Is section 3 self-executing?

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OCTOBER 30, 2022

Share Last term at the Supreme Court teemed with culture-war issues: guns , religion , climate change , COVID vaccines , and of course abortion. In 1978 , 2003 , and 2016 , the court affirmed that universities may consider applicants’ race as part of an effort to foster diversity on campus. Start with affirmative action. In Haaland v.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 31, 2022

University of North Carolina. 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. In Bakke, the court ruled against affirmative action in a fractured decision.

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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. One thing, however, we agree upon: it is time for the federal courts to rule on this theory to bring clarity to the election. According to these experts, Jan.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 26, 2022

It is important to note that Republicans have also had courts rule against them in states like North Carolina and Pennsylvania). The court found that, in their 2021 Congressional Plan, the Democrats not only violated Maryland law but the state constitution’s equal protection, free speech and free elections clauses.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 8, 2021

The danger is more acute because it has reached law schools where future judges and lawyers may replicate the same intolerance in our legal system. A recent controversy at Duke Law School highlights this danger. “ Some legal columnists echoed calls to ban those with opposing views. But I know it when I see it.”.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 29, 2023

After months of dire predictions of a coup in the making, the Court overwhelmingly rejected the underlying “independent state legislature,” as some of us predicted. Harper, in which North Carolina legislators argued that state courts could not override state legislatures on federal election districts.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

In 2022, the American Bar Association required law schools to “provide education to law students on bias, cross-cultural competency, and racism: (1) at the start of the program of legal education, and (2) at least once again before graduation.” I have long incorporated race issues in my classes. The decision in Porter v.

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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. Indeed, the rulings in cases involving Harvard and the University of North Carolina ended decades of muddled 5-4 decisions. In barring the use of race in admissions, the Court believed that it was protecting that very guarantee.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 12, 2024

” Putting aside the assumption that the executive branch would go along with the massive purge, the suggestion is that neither the Congress nor the courts would move to stop the killing or confinement of all reporters and LGBTQ citizens. In those states, the primary ballots themselves might not be very democratic.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 8, 2022

It was always doubtful that a law school would take the unprecedented step of barring a sitting Supreme Court justice. The problem is that most targets of these campaigns have neither the status nor the day job of a Supreme Court justice. Here is the column: Clarence Thomas last week became cancel culture’s latest target.

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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. In the name of democracy, these Democrats have demanded that courts prevent voters from being able to vote for incumbent members. It has been rejected repeatedly in the courts. By declaring the Jan. Madison Cawthorn (R-N.C.)

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

2] Mark Moore, Court Upholds Bribery Conviction of Chinese Exec Patrick Ho Linked to Hunter Biden , N.Y. 16] Andrew Prokop, How Much Legal Jeopardy is Hunter Biden In?, This hearing returned the impeachment process to a type of regular order in reserving judgment until all of the evidence could be acquired by the three committees.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 12, 2022

In a series of tweets this week, Professor Heidi Li Feldman has denounced “lawless” and “actively rogue” Supreme Court justices and professors who disagree with her views on the Constitution. She has called for “genuine” law professors not to fall “into complicity with lawlessness” in teaching such subjects. Heidi Li Feldman.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Numerous groups attack the viability standard that the court adopted in Roe v. Three physicians and the Catholic Association Foundation write that advances in science have “painted an intimate portrait of the fetus and its humanity” and therefore the court’s viability framework is outdated. Amicus briefs supporting Mississippi.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 27, 2023

I publicly condemned President Trump ’s speech that day while it was being given — and I denounced the riot as a “ constitutional desecration.” However, it has not been treated legally as an insurrection.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 1, 2021

The tweet was insulting and sophomoric but the action taken by the university is rightfully now a legal matter before the Eastern District of U.S. District Court of Tennessee. A conservative North Carolina professor faced calls for termination over controversial tweets and was pushed to retire.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 15, 2022

Notably, this week, the board defended its policy before the Supreme Court by insisting that it was not “race balancing” and that the new policy is entirely “race neutral.” The TJ case is important not just to constitutional but educational standards in America.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 20, 2021

There is now no impediment to a charge for incitement, a much-touted possible charge that some of us believe would fail ultimately in the courts on either the trial or appellate levels. Robert Cannon “Robin” Hayes who served as Chairman of the North Carolina Republican Party and Chair of the National Council of Republican Party Chairs.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 18, 2021

Previously, I wrote about Hastings in addressing the bribery theories being voiced by Democratic leaders and legal experts in the first Trump impeachment. This has remained an open question and much contested in the United States as I noted in my later North Carolina article.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 6, 2022

demanded the disqualification of the 120 House Republicans — including House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) — for simply signing a “Friend of the Court brief” (or amicus brief ) in support of an election challenge from Texas. Even support for court filings is now being declared an act of rebellion. Bill Pascrell (D-N.J.)

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