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Constitutional Law Reporter
OCTOBER 18, 2023
The justices recently granted certiorari in two cases challenging state laws that restrict social media companies’ ability to moderate content on their platforms. The key issue before the Court is whether the Texas and Florida laws violate the First Amendment. Meanwhile, the Texas law, H.B. The court held that S.B.
JonathanTurley
OCTOBER 31, 2021
Three University of Florida political science professors have told a federal court that the university barred them from assisting plaintiffs in a challenge to the state’s new voting laws. As state employees, they were told that litigating against a state law would be “adverse to U.F.’s I disagree.
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JonathanTurley
JUNE 9, 2023
It is a curious call for a governor to make after he ran ads in Florida calling on people to “join us in California.” California Attorney General Rob Bonta (D) chimed in, declaring the flight from Florida might be “ State-sanctioned kidnapping.” First, let’s look at the law. Gavin Newsom (D.,
JonathanTurley
JANUARY 3, 2024
It would then depend on the Maine litigation to bring the matter back to the Court. Here is the column: It is “a sad day for America and the Constitution when a court decides the outcome of an election.” Bush, criticizing the Florida Supreme Court’s decision during the 2000 election. Supreme Court challenge.
JonathanTurley
APRIL 28, 2023
Yesterday, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit upheld critical provisions in Florida election law reforms, including provisions that Democratic politicians and pundits spent years misrepresenting as “a return to Jim Crow.” The election law actually does the opposite. That is also untrue.
JonathanTurley
OCTOBER 11, 2022
Among the slew of challenges to state abortion laws after the decision in Dobbs v. The complaint by three Jewish women from Louisville seeks to block the state trigger law on the basis that it violates their religious rights since they do not believe that life begins at fertilization under Jewish law, or Halakha.
JonathanTurley
JANUARY 14, 2024
In Florida, U.S. District Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle has ruled that the federal law prohibiting people from possessing firearms inside post offices is unconstitutional. ” Judge Mizelle noted that the law stands in conflict with the Bruen decision. That is all. No citation, no authority, no reasoning.”
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