JonathanTurley

MARCH 22, 2021

University of San Diego Law Professor Thomas Smith has been put under investigation for the use of an offensive term in a column criticizing the Chinese government and its role in the pandemic. It is clear a reference not to the Chinese people but the Chinese government. To be clear, I was referring to the Chinese government.”.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

The Democrats this week appear to have taken up the same cudgel in labeling opponents and critics Russian sympathizers and fellow travelers in opposing government involvement in a massive censorship system. The files show dozens of FBI and government employees actively seeking the censorship of citizens and others for their viewpoints.

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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.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 20, 2021

We recently discussed the rise of a generation of censors as young people embrace the role of government and corporate censorship. ” The shift is almost entirely among Democrats who ( like Democratic leaders ) now overwhelming favor fewer free speech protections and more government control over speech. .”

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At the Lectern

JUNE 13, 2022

Sixth Circuit Chief Judge Jeffrey Sutton discussed his book “ 51 Imperfect Solutions: States and the Making of American Constitutional Law ” and his views on state constitutions, federalism, and securing protections for individual liberty by focusing on state constitutions. Related: here and here.)

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JonathanTurley

JULY 6, 2022

Georgetown University Law School Professor Rosa Brooks has drawn accolades and criticism for her appearance on MSNBC’s “The ReidOut” after declaring that Americans are “slaves” to the U.S. Constitution and that the Constitution itself is now the problem for the country. This is 100% us.”

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JonathanTurley

MAY 28, 2021

We recently discussed the controversy at Rutgers Law School over the reading of the “n-word” from a state supreme court opinion. The requirement (for any group receiving more than $250) presents some interesting questions in the conflict between free speech and diversity programs at such schools.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 9, 2023

First, let’s look at the law. The California provision states that kidnapping involves someone who “abducts or takes by force or fraud any person contrary to the law of the place where that act is committed, and brings, sends, or conveys that person within the limits of this state.”

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 29, 2022

He is now suing the school over his treatment, including the required participation in sensitivity training and denial of a standard pay increase for faculty. Without communicating with Plaintiff or any other person with firsthand knowledge, the BTAT authorized the law school dean to take the most extreme measures.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 20, 2021

We recently discussed the case of University of North Carolina law student Sagar Sharma, a student of color, who faced a recall election as the first-year class co-president. The charges are connected to the prior controversy and raise serious free speech and retaliatory concerns at the law school. .

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Lincoln Caplan is a senior research scholar and a visiting lecturer in law at Yale Law School and also teaches in Yale’s English and political science departments. Professors at the event reflected on opinions about administrative law, free speech, patents, and other topics.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 31, 2022

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) this week opposed a model law being introduced in over a dozen states. The ACLU historically opposed laws that denied free speech and other rights under the Constitution, a legacy that I have long cherished and supported. This brings us back to the model law.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Here is the column: From academia to corporations to the government, diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies have expanded exponentially in the last 10 years. Law schools are also facing controversial mandates. Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at the George Washington University Law School.

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 21, 2021

The key topics included the confirmation process, term limits, transparency and disclosure, expanding the size of the court, and the court’s role in a constitutional government. President Joe Biden appointed the 36-member commission to write a report on various court-reform options. Other potential timeframes include 12 or 16 years.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Many now question democracy as a sustainable system of government. It represents the single greatest threat to this nation: a citizenry that has lost faith not just with our system of government but with each other. Some 31 percent of Trump supporters believe that the nation should explore alternative forms of government.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Law Clerk – This term is commonly used in Ontario and denotes someone who does a mix of administrative and substantive tasks, but is usually less substantive than that of a paralegal. One website in France calls a Law Clerk a, “Second-in-Command Lawyer.” But, I don’t want to get ahead of myself here.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 24, 2023

In a recent open letter, Harvard law professor Mark Tushnet and San Francisco State University political scientist Aaron Belkin called upon President Joe Biden to defy rulings of the Supreme Court that he considers “mistaken” in the name of “popular constitutionalism.” Constitution “trash” and argued that we should simply just dump it.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 9, 2024

And to do so, they ought to draw on the robust and inventive debate that is brewing among scholars in law schools, think tanks, and advocacy organizations over how to fix the Court. Either that, or submit to being governed for another 30, 40, or 50 years by unelected partisans in robes.

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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 Electoral College was designed as part of a republican model of government. Indeed, it would change the entire form of our government.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 31, 2022

From legendary lawyers to lesser-known activists, journalists, and plaintiffs, the following individuals who died in 2022 all shaped the court and the law in their own ways. In 1973, Beckwith was a recent graduate of law school and was working as a political reporter for TIME magazine. David Beckwith (Oct. 30, 1942 – Oct.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

It is the “why not” approach to criminal and constitutional law. While the report expressly claims that the Fulton County District Attorney’s office did not create the list, it was the office of Fani Willis that presented the law, the evidence and potential targets to the special grand jury. and Maurice C.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 20, 2023

These orders come at a great cost — limiting both parties and counsels in raising objections to alleged abuses of the government. While I have long said that the Mar-a-Lago prosecution by Smith is well-supported in both law and facts, other prosecutions currently ongoing are clearly politically motivated. Jonathan Turley is the J.B.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The American public should not harbor such doubts over corruption at the highest levels of our government. Jonathan Turley, an attorney, constitutional law scholar and legal analyst, is the Shapiro Chair for Public Interest Law at The George Washington University Law School.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 10, 2023

has even doggedly maintained that the laptop may really be Russian disinformation, despite confirmation of its content by witnesses, government investigators, and several media organizations. Even now, some are frantically joining Biden in calls for blind denials. Dan Goldman (D-N.Y.) It won’t work.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 11, 2023

It fought for free speech and good government. Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at the George Washington University Law School. The question is whether, as a party, it will now vote to shield corruption, even with almost half of Democratic voters calling for answers. So let’s call the vote. and Maurice C.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

” For years, the administration and many Democrats in Congress have resisted every effort to expose the sprawling government censorship program that one federal judge described as an “Orwellian ‘Ministry of Truth.'” The memo accuses Biden of “spreading misinformation,” citing his Oct.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The subsequent calls for Biden to be removed under the 25th Amendment are similar to demands made from Democrats and various law professors and pundits during the Trump administration. Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at the George Washington University Law School. Jonathan Turley is the J.B.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 8, 2023

378, 387 (1987), the Court declared that a government employee was protected in expressing a highly offensive statement about the attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan. The panel decision runs against the grain of various prior decisions of the Supreme Court. For example, in Rankin v. McPherson , 483 U.S. as “very conservative.”

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JonathanTurley

JULY 20, 2023

That speech is entirely protected under the First Amendment and governing case law, including Brandenburg v. In the past, congressional Democrats used the very same law to challenge presidential election certifications with little or no evidence. The use of the federal law for that purpose was not and is not a crime.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 24, 2023

In Wisconsin, for example, a federal court stopped Biden’s controversial $4 billion race-based federal relief program for farmers, holding that white farmers were found to be “experiencing discrimination at the hands of their government.” Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at the George Washington University Law School.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 3, 2023

In other countries, this crackdown on comedy is being enforced by the state through criminal and human rights laws. Comedians are being prosecuted under hate-speech laws in various countries that criminalize mocking any group or identity. In Brazil, comedian Danilo Gentili was prosecuted for implying a politician was a prostitute.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 15, 2023

Democratic leaders actively promote censorship on social media and vehemently defend government efforts to target citizens or groups. confirmed Kelly suggested “that government should work with social media companies to censor information that could lead to a run on banks.” Thomas Massie (R-Ky.)

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JonathanTurley

JULY 11, 2023

While the Administration insists that it complied with a law that required Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra to make the reappointments personally, it later issued a retroactive reappointment for most of the directors after months of congressional inquiry. That, too, is not allowed under federal law.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 30, 2022

Clinton has called on foreign governments to step in and pass laws that would force Twitter to continue to censor opposing views. Musk may have to yield to such domestic laws, but he can use his platform to inform citizens of those countries they are being censored and controlled in what they are allowed to read.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

When Berkeley Law School Dean and constitutional scholar Erwin Chemerinsky taught Criminal Procedure in the Fall of 2019, he became frustrated when he realized many of the cases that were the subject of his lectures ended with the police winning and the rights of suspects losing. CHEMERINSKY: I think it’s a terrible change.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 12, 2023

They did so despite the fact that McCarthy was facing opposition for having worked and compromised with Democrats to keep the government open. It shows that there is no longer a loyal opposition that would support either a president or a House speaker to preserve the functioning of government.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 27, 2023

million were sent to a law firm and another firm associated with Hunter Biden. ” (He did not explain why a message legally acquired by the government from the cloud account of his client would be illegal to include in the report of a congressional investigatory committee.) I am sitting here waiting for the call with my father.’”

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