JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Appleseed Center for Law and Justice: “Smith was heartened, however, that the ruling the Supreme Court affirmed mentioned that Congress could legally grant voting rights to D.C., .” The Post then made the same misleading point by adding this statement from Walter Smith, executive director of the D.C.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 3, 2021

Indeed, if these were truly protected as rights, our government would be obligated to ensure basic access to them through entitlement programs or legal protection.” They are correct that there are legal protections for such rights. Virginia , 75 U.S.

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APRIL 9, 2021

Balkin, Knight Professor of Constitutional Law and the First Amendment at Yale Law School. Bob Bauer (co-chair), professor of practice, distinguished scholar in residence and co-director of the Legislative and Regulatory Process Clinic at New York University School of Law. Sovern Professor of Law at Columbia University.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 18, 2021

The briefs filed in the case include groups such the Cato Institute , which directly confronted the court about it being legally absent without leave on gun rights for more than a decade. Cato has argued that judicial “inaction has contributed to the Second Amendment’s demise.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 8, 2021

School staff shall, at the request of a student or parent/legal guardian, when using a name or pronoun to address the student, use the name and pronoun that correspond to their gender identity.”. Better yet, it could work out a compromise to protect free speech rights. Yet, this is “when using a name or pronounce to address the student.”

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 14, 2022

.'” Captain Jack Sparrow’s clarification in the movie Pirates of the Caribbean could prove useful when actor Johnny Depp takes the stand in his defamation case in Fairfax, Virginia against his former wife, Amber Heard. ” He is now trying his hand with a Virginia jury.

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JANUARY 9, 2022

Ken Hughes is a researcher with the Presidential Recordings Program of the University of Virginia's Miller Center. Hughes argues that erosion in American democracy depends on the conspiracy theory, destructive and demonstrably false, that the 2020 election was stolen.

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JULY 26, 2021

The scheme must be seen as one in which Constitution envisages in responsible citizens and in that sense the fundamental duties shall be performed and seen as an educative role. The Court found their expulsion in violation of both Articles 19 and 25 of the Constitution. Barnette in 1943. Conclusion. 392-395 M.P. Web sources.

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MAY 27, 2024

But the Convention came together to declare that equal rights, including rights for women and LGBTQ+ people, should be a fundamental value of American constitutional law. I hope our nation sees just how emboldened our generation is to create lasting legal change,” Herbert said.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 3, 2022

Notably, the court has accepted a variety of other cases that could curtail agency authority, including West Virginia v. The appeal raises the legality of the emergency temporary standard issued by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration requiring a vaccine-or-test mandate for private employers with more than 100 employees.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 16, 2022

The problem is that the claims are detached from both legal and political realities. The claim is even less credible legally than it is politically. Virginia , was based on different constitutional grounds and would not be negated by this opinion. The leading case on interracial marriage, Loving v.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 28, 2021

See Jonathan Turley, Too Clever By Half: The Partial Representation of the District of Columbia in the House of Representatives , 76 George Washington University Law Review 305-374 (2008). statehood is a complex issue with historical, constitutional, and legal dimensions. The debate over D.C.

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AUGUST 4, 2021

Washington Supreme Court Said Climate Activist Was Entitled to Present Necessity Defense Based on Evidence that Legal Alternatives Were Not “Truly Reasonable”. HERE ARE THE ADDITIONS TO THE CLIMATE CASE CHART SINCE UPDATE # 148. FEATURED CASE. Biden , No. 3:21-cv-00065 (S.D. July 12, 2021). BP p.l.c. ,

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JonathanTurley

MAY 24, 2021

The legal question is whether historical disparities are enough to justify a system of race and gender preferences when all restaurants were impacted by the pandemic. In 1989, the Supreme Court ruled that a minority set-aside program in Virginia was unconstitutional under the Equal Protection Clause. Other such cases are continuing.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 11, 2022

Then, in 2020, Virginia passed a ratification resolution for the ERA. Yet, in the end, the Office of the Federal Register must confirm the “facial legal sufficiency and an authenticating signature” of the state documents and confirm that they are “in good order.” And then — poof!

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 29, 2023

However, this was conduct that was both legal and conducted outside of his official duties without reference to his academic or administrative positions. It is reminiscent of the recent controversy involving Virginia Democratic candidate Susanna Gibson who was shown to have engaged in sex acts on the Internet with her husband.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 4, 2023

The hatred for Trump is so all-encompassing that legal experts on the political left have ignored the chilling implications of this indictment. This indictment is reminiscent of the case against former Virginia Gov. But how do you prove legally that Trump truly didn’t believe his false claims? Bob McDonnell.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 27, 2022

As this matter returns to the states, it is striking to consider what has changed legally and socially in the past 50 years. While Dobbs is a major reversal of a long-standing precedent, much has changed legally since 1973. In Virginia, Gov. How much has changed.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 3, 2024

(Appeals of ballot decisions are pending in Arizona; ballot challenges are in process in Alaska, Maine , New York, New Jersey, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, South Carolina, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia and Wyoming. He teaches a course on the Supreme Court and the Constitution. The ruling in Bush v.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 20, 2023

While appellate courts have largely ruled in favor of lower courts’ gag orders, there have long been constitutional concerns over these limits on not just the free speech rights of defendants but also their zealous representation by defense counsel. Smith has long adopted extreme legal positions that ignore constitutional values.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 23, 2022

Totenberg ruled that Greene’s critics could bring a challenge under the Constitution’s 14th Amendment, known as the “Disqualification Clause.” Sheffey to hold a Virginia state court office, given his support for the Confederacy. The case in question challenged the right of Hugh W.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

The bizarre story of Susanna Gibson and her running as a candidate for the House of Delegates has occupied much of the conversations around Virginia, where I live. Virginia State Sen. Indeed, even the service provider itself is protected under the law. Engaging in online porn is a lawful act for Gibson.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 13, 2023

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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JonathanTurley

JUNE 18, 2022

has joined the call for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to resign due to the communications of his wife, Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, with lawyer John Eastman supporting the certification challenge. The Thomas’ have not received support from most law professors or legal experts in the media. Bill Pascrell (D-N.J.)

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

While the legal team did raise some credible electoral concerns, I was also critical of Rudy Giuliani’s global communist conspiracy claim at the press conference this week. In my testimony, I went into historical and legal detail to explain why this theory was never credible.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 20, 2023

Today’s legal-political sequel, however, may prove to be a bit more controversial. 6 allegations are far more tenuous legally. Such an indictment could come at a high legal and political cost. However, relying on bad advice or bad law is not a crime. is obvious. 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol. 6 speech for criminal charges.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

The legal basis for this action is superficial and strikingly cynical. The Biden plan would use the law to benefit individuals without such a showing, including many of the 40 million beneficiaries who are relatively wealthy and could pay off the loans. In West Virginia v. Biden just did, however.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 22, 2023

Moreover, as University of Virginia law professor Saikrishna Prakash recently pointed out, there is more than enough federal revenue coming in each month for Biden to avoid default by paying the interest on the debt under existing federal law. Biden then cited Tribe in calling for CDC to reimpose the moratorium  .

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