JonathanTurley

MARCH 21, 2021

While it has received little coverage in the mainstream media, the conservative group Project Veritas won a major victory against the New York Times this week in a defamation case with potentially wide reach. Notably, this follows another significant loss by the New York Times to Sarah Palin last year. seven times.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 2, 2022

We have previously discussed how New York has proven the gift that keeps on giving for gun rights advocates. New York Democrats have passed a series of laws that led to catastrophic losses in federal court, including the recent major ruling in in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 22, 2022

We previously discussed how a New York judge struck down the new voting districts pushed through by Democrats as unconstitutional gerrymandering. The New York plan was a raw and obvious effort to rig the election. In other words, the New York voters were chumps.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 27, 2022

Share This article is part of a symposium on the court’s decision in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Barnett is the Patrick Hotung professor of constitutional law at the Georgetown University Law Center and the faculty director of the Georgetown Center for the Constitution.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 25, 2022

The latest such attack came from two professors in the New York Times in a column titled The Constitution Is Broken and Should Not Be Reclaimed. That is good news. The problem is that many on the left have turned their ire on the Constitution itself as the root of all evil in our country.

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AUGUST 11, 2022

Every year, law schools advertise open faculty positions via a Faculty Appointments Register sponsored by the American Association of Law Schools (AALS). Note that top ranked law schools rarely advertise for particular subject matter areas. The new hire then starts work the following summer. by Dennis Crouch.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 9, 2023

I have previously written how New York has been the gift that keeps on giving for the National Rifle Association and other gun rights groups. The latest is a ruling by the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit striking down key provisions of the law passed after the Bruen decision. New York Democratic Gov.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 3, 2022

New York may have triggered a new constitutional challenge with its policy to prioritize non-white people in the distribution of certain COVID-19 treatments. New York’s Department of Health has responded to this shortage with a policy that will make race one of the prioritizing factors in distributing available resources.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 4, 2022

New York has long been the source of major litigation over gun control. Now, New York has moved to ban anyone under age 21 from buying or possessing a semi-automatic rifle in response to the recent shootings at a supermarket in Buffalo. See, e.g., Sheldon, in 5 Blume 346; Rawle 123; Pomeroy 152-153; Abbott 333.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 30, 2021

New York State Democrat Senator Brad Holyman is one of those “men of zeal.” 6th riots, he has proposed a new law that would legislate an even greater level of censorship to prevent the “social media amplification” of views that are deemed harmful or “disinformation.”

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 27, 2022

Share At last Thursday’s conference, the justices considered several high-profile petitions for review, involving issues like New York’s vaccine mandate for health-care workers, whether to overrule the court’s landmark decision in New York Times v. The justices denied review in Coral Ridge Ministries Media v.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Tuesday in a case challenging a federal law that prohibits individuals subject to a domestic violence court order from owning a gun. The new framework was established by the court in its 2022 decision from New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. The case, US v.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 27, 2022

Share This article is part of a symposium on the court’s decision in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Saul Cornell is the Paul and Diane Guenther chair in American history at Fordham University and adjunct professor of law at Fordham Law School.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 11, 2024

The Chief Judge of the Western Direct of Wisconsin, James Peterson (an Obama appointee), did not just reject but ridiculed the Elias Law Group challenge to a witness requirement for absentee voting. New York Times reporter Ken Vogel said at the time that Elias denied involvement in the anti-Trump dossier.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

There is a major victory for free speech in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York where Judge Andrew Carter Jr. has enjoined a New York Hate Speech law regulating social media. Like many attacks on free speech, the New York law came in response to a tragedy.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

DECEMBER 19, 2022

United States , which involves the scope of a key federal bribery law. In convicting Joseph Percoco, who served as campaign manager for New York Gov. The post Supreme Court Considers Scope of Federal Bribery Law appeared first on Constitutional Law Reporter. 1226(c) or 8 U.S.C.

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Above The Law

JULY 8, 2022

If You Can't Stand The Heat, Get Out Through The Kitchen : Morton's Steakhouse helped Brett Kavanaugh run away through the back door when protesters arrived at a restaurant and then offered its own hilariously bad take on constitutional law. — See Also appeared first on Above the Law. Because that's the logic here.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

I have previously written about how New York has proven time and time again as the gift that keeps on giving for the National Rifle Association (NRA) and gun-rights groups. New York Democrats continue to pass laws that are virtually guaranteed to be struck down and further reinforce Second Amendment rights.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

JUNE 5, 2023

Supreme Court rejected a constitutional challenge to a California animal welfare law that requires pork sold in the state to come from humanely raised pigs. According to the Court, the law did not violate the dormant commerce clause in regulating the pork industry outside California. New York State Liquor Authority , 476 U.S.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 7, 2022

I previously wrote about the latest New York gun law passed after the Court’s ruling in New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. Suddaby issued a temporary restraining order against a substantial part of the law, including barring the provisions previously discussed as presumptively unconstitutional.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

APRIL 22, 2024

Vullo, the former Superintendent of the New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS), used her regulatory power to threaten NRA business partners and coerce them into disassociating with the NRA, in violation of its rights to free speech and equal protection. National Rifle Association of America v. Missouri In Murthy v.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 29, 2021

” Those ominous words from Eric Levitz in the New York Magazine are enough to chill one to the bone after a year of alleged insurrections and ongoing plans for a conservative coup. A new Gallup poll showing that Chief Justice Roberts is the most popular political figure in public life. . After Brown v.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 12, 2021

The release also breaks down the death count by state, reporting that 124 officers died in Texas, 53 died in California and 44 died in New York. As we had feared, the virus has claimed the lives of many, and now includes a growing number of law enforcement officers,” the release reads.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Ironically, last night, Hillary Clinton made reference to this standard in suggesting that she might be able to sue Fox News for its coverage of the Durham investigation. It is considered a sacrilege to even raise the possibility of reexamining the legacy of New York Times v. Devin Nunes, R-Calif. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz.

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The Crime Report

MARCH 14, 2022

Police commissioner Keechant Sewell said the officers had been through “an extensive amount of vetting,” and other top police officials said that each officer would complete seven days of training on subjects that included the use of force, constitutional law and community interactions.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

DECEMBER 6, 2023

In the wake of the country’s most recent mass shooting, the justices considered a case that could overturn a federal gun law. Rahimi, challenges a federal law prohibiting the possession of a firearm by anyone who is the subject of a domestic violence restraining order. The case, United States v. Bruen , 597 U.S. _ (2022). 1681 et seq.,

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JonathanTurley

JULY 12, 2021

Below is my column in the Hill newspaper on the declaration of a gun violence emergency by New York Gov. The centerpiece of Cuomo’s plan is a new law to allow victims of gun violence to sue gun manufacturers under a nuisance theory. It has failed repeatedly in various states, including New York. Of the $138.7

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 9, 2021

The announcement fulfilled a campaign promise by the president, who last fall proposed the idea of a commission after he declined to endorse efforts by liberals to expand the Supreme Court – efforts that Justice Stephen Breyer criticized in a speech on Tuesday at Harvard Law School. Cardozo School of Law. Guy-Uriel E.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 3, 2023

The testimony put the controversial demands of New York Attorney General James into sharp relief. Those words from Alice in Wonderland seem the only apt description of the case unfolding in the New York courtroom of Justice Arthur F. That may be a common practice in New York real estate, but it is not a good practice.

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SCOTUSBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

God Has No Place in Supreme Court Opinions (Linda Greenhouse, The New York Times). Some Not Very Focused Preliminary Thoughts About the Shadow Docket (But Leading Up to Some Fundamentals about Constitutional Law) (Mark Tushnet, Balkinization). Not Yet (Krishnadev Calamur & Nina Totenberg, NPR).

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JonathanTurley

MAY 9, 2021

There is an interesting First Amendment case brewing in New York after an appellate ruled that a mother identified as Christie could lose custody of her daughter unless she removes a rock with a small confederate flag image on it in the driveway.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The second case centers on whether a “bump stock” – an attachment that converts a semiautomatic rifle into a fully automatic weapon – qualifies as a “machinegun” under federal law. The post SCOTUS Adds Two Additional Gun Rights Cases to Docket appeared first on Constitutional Law Reporter. Vullo The NRA alleges that Maria T.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 23, 2022

As predicted , the Supreme Court handed down a momentous opinion in favor of Second Amendment rights today in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. Penal Law § 400.00(2)(f) ” New York Gov. ” New York Gov. Hochul added “This is New York. We don’t back down.”

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 29, 2023

So here is the list to see if you are residing in an anti-free speech state: Arizona Colorado Connecticut Delaware Hawaii Illinois Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Nevada New Jersey New Mexico, New York Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island Vermont Washington Wisconsin District of Columbia Here is the brief: Missouri v.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 1, 2024

The controversial law came up in oral arguments over the access to the abortion pill in the Supreme Court. That 151-year-old law banned the mailing of materials that were deemed “obscene, lewd, [or] lascivious.” For some of us, this is a painful reminder that the law continues to linger on our books.

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The Crime Report

MAY 24, 2021

New York Attorney General Letitia James’ announcement last week that her office was “actively investigating the Trump Organization in a criminal capacity” has added to the former president’s legal worries, but the biggest landmine believed to threaten his political future has yet to be detonated. and conviction?Trump

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Constitutional Law Reporter

MAY 10, 2022

Wade and erase 50 years of abortion law precedent. However, in defending its controversial abortion law, the State of Mississippi has asked the Court to overturn its prior decisions in Roe v. In 1852, the New York Tribune reported that the Supreme Court would rule in Pennsylvania v. The case, Dobbs v.

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