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Crimson Tide: A New Study Shows the Continued Decline of Free Speech on Campuses

JonathanTurley

Above the Law senior editor Joe Patrice defended “predominantly liberal faculties” in a column arguing that hiring a conservative academic was akin to allowing a believer in geocentrism — that the sun orbits the earth — to teach at a university. Public universities must protect free speech as a matter of law.

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Boston University Professor: Second Amendment is Based on “Freedom to Enslave”

JonathanTurley

He has also declared that terms like “legal vote” are racist. He was r ecently in the news after explaining why he took a white doll away from his daughter to prevent her from breathing in “the ‘smog’ of white superiority.” However, the history of the Second Amendment contradicts these claims.

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The Second Amendment Is About Rifles Not Racism

JonathanTurley

Issues long debated over other grounds — the Senate’s filibuster rule , voter ID laws , even standardized testing , math , statistics and meritocracy — have all been reframed as a choice between racism and equality. Slavery was a matter discussed both at the Declaration of Independence and during the Constitutional debates.

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Federal Court Asked to Address 14th Amendment Effort to Bar Trump

JonathanTurley

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. While I respect many of the academics who view this as a credible interpretation, I have long opposed it as textually and historically flawed.

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