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

OCTOBER 19, 2021

The recent rape of a woman on a train in Pennsylvania has shocked and disgusted the nation, particularly after passengers did nothing to help the woman as she was allegedly attacked by Fiston Ngoy, 35. I am unaware of such a law in Pennsylvania, but these laws are rarely enforced. The language of this Court in Brown v.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

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. In Brandenburg v.

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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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Thing is, these days law and the decisions courts hand down are very much like that. People go to one court, don't get what they want so they go to another court asking for, basically, the same thing. In School District of Abington Township, Pennsylvania v. Schempp , 374 U.S. Schempp , 374 U.S.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 12, 2021

I have long disagreed with the view that there is a constitutional barrier to indicting a sitting president. As I wrote earlier , the governing legal standard for violent speech is found in Brandenburg v. So let’s walk down Pennsylvania Avenue.” I believe that they are fundamentally wrong on the controlling law.

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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

DECEMBER 12, 2020

NJ) has a serious problem with Republicans going to court. Now Pascrell is declaring that 120 House Republicans signing a “Friend of the Court brief” (or amicus brief ) is tantamount to supporting a rebellion against the United States and that they should be blocked from taking their seats in Congress. Bill Pascrell (D.,

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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. President Joe Biden himself has taken up this claim. While I do not believe that the Jan.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 8, 2024

Even as Biden was telling citizens to vote Democrat to preserve democracy, a Democratic activist was seeking to remove a GOP congressman from the ballot in a nearby Pennsylvania district. As usual, he has remained silent as he did on court packing in the last election.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Those words from actress Jane Greer, the ultimate femme fatale in the 1947 film-noir classic, “Out of the Past,” could well have been written above the caption of the Biden administration’s brief this week before the Supreme Court, seeking to enjoin the Texas abortion law. The Dobbs case is due to be argued in December.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 1, 2021

Yet, this is a legal challenge under constitutional and statutory law. It is same position taken recently before the Supreme Court by Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro, who called a legal challenge to the election “seditious.” Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) It is just a matter of dates.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

I will be doing the coverage tonight on the election for Fox News and election day has already gotten off to a lively start in terms of legal conflicts. We previously discussed Fetterman’s recent effort to enlist the firm of controversial Clinton lawyer Marc Elias to get a federal court to strike down a Pennsylvania election provision.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 21, 2020

For years, Democrats and an array of legal experts denounced Trump for dismissing the Russia collusion investigation as a politically motivated hoax. Trump has long had a similarly distortive impact on legal analysis. Flawed theories rejected by the Supreme Court were declared to be perfectly plausible when used against Trump.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 22, 2022

As we wait for the release of the most significant Second Amendment case in over a decade from the Supreme Court (as early as tomorrow), CBS featured Ibram X. He has also declared that terms like “legal vote” are racist. Kendi on Face the Nation on gun rights. In his famous 1770 defense of Capt.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 22, 2021

Bundy of Roselle Park Municipal Court that she must remove the offending signs. ” In 1971, the Supreme Court handed down Cohen v. Indeed, the Supreme Court just handed down a ruling in Mahanoy Area School District v. The Court has been mocked for its ham-handed efforts to define pornography.

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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. In Bush v. 8 or beyond Dec.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 6, 2022

Yet, a year ago, various legal experts declared that Trump should be charged based on his speech and his delay in calling for protesters to leave Capitol Hill. Indeed, many of the same legal experts reappeared to offer assurances that Trump can still be frog marched to the hoosegow. So let’s walk down Pennsylvania Avenue.”

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JonathanTurley

JULY 30, 2021

Supporting commentary explained how “Anti-Blackness determined the inclusion of the Second Amendment in the Bill of Rights, and has informed the unequal and racist application of gun laws.”. Slavery was a matter discussed both at the Declaration of Independence and during the Constitutional debates. In his famous 1770 defense of Capt.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 11, 2021

Indeed, it would be considered protected speech by the Supreme Court. So let’s walk down Pennsylvania Avenue.” The governing legal standard for violent speech is found in Brandenburg v. In 1919, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote for a unanimous bench in one of the most infamous decisions to issue from the Supreme Court.

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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. There was also such an incident at the University of London involving Bahar Mustafa as well as one involving a University of Pennsylvania professor.

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