Constitutional Law Georgia Laws Litigating 
JonathanTurley
JULY 5, 2021
From the prosecution of Bill Cosby to a federal lawsuit against Georgia, courts are dealing with cases where government lawyers repeat the same implausible claims with the same unconvincing results. DA Steele is unapologetic and insists he was trying to show that “no one is above the law — including those who are rich, famous and powerful.”
SCOTUSBlog
APRIL 22, 2022
It particularly disfavors Eighth Amendment litigation attacking familiar lethal injection protocols as “cruel and unusual” punishment. In the past 20 years, the court has announced substantive constitutional law, pleading requirements, and timeliness rules that make it harder to win such arguments.
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JonathanTurley
MARCH 9, 2021
If Georgia Gwinnett College wanted to foster greater unity in its use of “free speech zones,” it succeeded in prompting a near unanimous Supreme Court in ruling against it in favor of free speech this week. Georgia Gwinnett College seemed to grasp for any claim to keep the students from speaking.
Paralegal Bootcamp
NOVEMBER 18, 2022
I’m going back to the days when I was a litigation paralegal. I remember spending weeks up in north Georgia in a warehouse with traffic lights so that the semis didn’t run you over if you were crossing INSIDE the warehouse. They let me take charge in a way that was at a much higher level than your typical civil litigation case.
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 voting reforms were signed into law in 2021 by Republican Governor Ron DeSantis.
SCOTUSBlog
JUNE 27, 2022
Saul Cornell is the Paul and Diane Guenther chair in American history at Fordham University and adjunct professor of law at Fordham Law School. It is particularly noteworthy that Justice Stephen Breyer called out his colleagues for engaging in the most rank form of law-office history in his dissent.
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. Ironically, the proposals would upend decades of civil rights litigation to defend the “one man, one vote” principle.
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