JonathanTurley

JULY 20, 2022

University of Michigan football head coach Jim Harbaugh is facing calls for his termination after he went public with his pro-life views. ” Others called for Harbaugh to be fired for holding a pro-life view shared by millions of citizens; F**k Jim Harbaugh, may the University of Michigan 86 him before his contract goes full-term.”

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OCTOBER 4, 2022

In the 2003 decision, the Court held that the University of Michigan Law School’s race-sensitive admissions program was narrowly tailored because the consideration of race was merely one factor in the decision-making process and individualized consideration was given to each applicant. Bollinger , 539 U.S. 306 (2003).

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 1, 2024

The most recent example is the interview of University of Michigan Law Professor and MSNBC legal analyst Barbara McQuade by Rachel Maddow. These voices have been amplified on media platforms like MSNBC which has championed efforts to censor people and groups on social media and other forums.

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AUGUST 29, 2023

Similarly, securities laws have produced a steady diet of cases at the court each year since the adoption of the major securities statutes in 1933 and 1934. The court’s securities law docket ballooned during Powell’s tenure – from approximately 1.5 Two of the nation’s leading securities scholars, A.C.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 2, 2023

Bollinger, the Court upheld Michigan’s use of race but then-Justice Sandra Day O’Connor cautioned that the court “expects that 25 years from now, the use of racial preferences will no longer be necessary to further the interest approved today.” In the 2003 decision in Grutter v.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Back then, the justices considered two different admissions programs at the University of Michigan. In Grutter, the court voted 5-4 to uphold the UM law school’s admissions system that evaluated applicants based on individual merit but used race as a “plus factor.” In Gratz v.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 24, 2021

However, Trask was also key to the arrest of men in the alleged plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. In the Michigan case, six men are charged with a conspiracy that involved kidnapping Whitmer but news outlets like BuzzFeed News have raised serious concerns over how much of the conspiracy was directed and facilitated by the FBI.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

MARCH 9, 2021

The District Court dismissed his FTCA claims, holding that the Government was immune because the officers were entitled to qualified immunity under Michigan law, or in the alternative, that King failed to state a valid claim under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12(b)(6).

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 4, 2023

Western Michigan University Music professor Daniel Mattson prides himself on being a “world-class trombonist.” He says that he had a promising and successful academic career when he was a gay faculty member. However, he alleges that changed when he found religion and declared that he was no longer gay.

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APRIL 9, 2021

A full list of commission members is below: Michelle Adams, professor of law at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. Kate Andrias, professor of law at the University of Michigan. Balkin, Knight Professor of Constitutional Law and the First Amendment at Yale Law School. Guy-Uriel E. Cristina M.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 22, 2021

Bamn , that Michigan’s constitutional amendment banning affirmative action was constitutional. Chief Justice John Roberts famously wrote in 2007 that “The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.” ” In 2014, the Court ruled 6-2 in Schuette v.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 17, 2021

The litigation over the 2020 election seem to be continuing with a ruling this week from Michigan Court of Claims Chief Judge Christopher Murray that Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson (D) broke state law in issuing new rules on absentee balloting before the 2020 election. 20-216-MM in the Court of Claims for the State of Michigan.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Yesterday, a Michigan judge was the latest to dismiss the effort to prevent voters from being able to vote for Trump. Judge Redford also rejected the effort of Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson (D) under state law to remove candidates from the ballot based on that provision.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Likewise, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals this month affirmed such a preliminary injunction against Western Michigan University. The issue reached the Supreme Court this week when health workers challenged a similar law in Maine allowing for medical but not religious exemptions.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 30, 2023

Bollinger, then-Justice Sandra Day O’Connor supplied the fifth vote to uphold the use of race by the University of Michigan. By 2003, the Court was ready to issue the very decision that it issued this week. However, in Grutter v. That was roughly 20 years ago.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 25, 2024

Courts in ultra liberal states like Massachusetts and Michigan have ruled against disqualification. That leaves Colorado where, on a court entirely composed of Democratically appointed justices, advocates could only secure a 4-3 ruling with a vigorous dissent.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 8, 2021

We also recently discussed the firing of a Michigan coach who expressed support for President Trump. We previously discussed the Vermont principal who was removed for expressing her opinion of Black Lives Matter on her personal Facebook page. However, this did not begin with the recent protests.

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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

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

NBC’s Chuck Todd previously misrepresented a ruling against Michigan Gov. The Washington Post’s Jennifer Rubin published legal analysis that actually got the rulings wrong in an effort to flog an anti-Trump narrative. Gretchen Whitmer as not citing a single case despite an opinion with dozens of such citations.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Conversely, the top performers this year are, notably, all public universities — Michigan Technological University, Auburn University, the University of New Hampshire, Oregon State University, and Florida State University.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 27, 2022

Bollinger , the Court divided 5-4 on upholding admissions criteria used to achieve “diversity” in a class at Michigan Law School. The court has spent decades issuing often conflicting and vague 5-4 rulings on the use of race in admissions. In 2003 in Grutter v.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 1, 2021

It is similar to a ruling rejecting orders by Michigan Gov. The dissenting justice adopted the most convoluted and artificial construct to ignore the plain meaning of the controlling state law. In a 4-3 decision that broke along ideological lines, the conservative majority found that Evers lacked authority for his order.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 18, 2022

Michigan Gov. Indeed, Attorney General Merrick Garland moved quickly after the opinion to declare that “States may not ban Mifepristone based on disagreement with the FDA’s expert judgment about its safety and efficacy.”. Gretchen Whitmer (D) has called upon President Biden to make the pills available over-the-counter.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 12, 2022

It appears, however, that Eve’s defense had greater success in Michigan this week after a jury failed to convict a single member of the alleged conspiracy to kidnap and execute Gov. That collapse is now complete after a Michigan jury acquitted two of the four men tried for the conspiracy and then hung on the other two.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Article 12 of the Michigan Constitution parallels the language of the federal constitution with a slight difference: The house of representatives shall have the sole power of impeaching civil officers for corrupt conduct in office, or for crimes or misdemeanors; but a majority of the members elected shall be necessary to direct an impeachment. .”

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Previously, MSNBC legal analyst and Michigan Law Professor Barbara McQuade told MSNBC viewers that Trump could be charged with manslaughter for his role in the January 6 Capitol riot. Moreover, arguing that these speakers induced violence under another form of tort liability would be quickly rejected under the First Amendment.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 7, 2022

Now a Harvard poll reaffirms earlier polling that shows most Americans embrace views closer to Mississippi than Michigan on abortion. Indeed, while Democratic leaders denounced the Mississippi law setting a 15-week limit on abortion, 72 percent of those polled support that limit. A poll conducted after the U.S.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

When Michigan football head coach Jim Harbaugh recently made a pro-life comment, it was declared hate speech by some, and there were calls for his termination. The video discussed the effort by Arizona State University students to ban Rittenhouse from campus.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

This month, the Coolidge Reagan Foundation has called upon the Michigan bar to investigate and sanction Rep. Backer insists that Tlaib “clearly violated” the Michigan bar’s ethics code due to her inflammatory remarks. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., over her comments on Gaza and Israel.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 29, 2022

In an unanimous 6-0 ruling, the Michigan Supreme Court held that her office committed a fatal and inexplicable error in prosecuting nine officials for the Flint water crisis, including former Gov. Over six years ago, I wrote earlier about misgivings over the prosecutions but Nessel’s office created new challenges for the prosecution.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Conversely, the top performers this year are, notably, all public universities — Michigan Technological University, Auburn University, the University of New Hampshire, Oregon State University, and Florida State University. If anyone doubts their existence, they still may be able to spot Mansfield, who is retired, moving around campus.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 28, 2023

A professor at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, has been suspended after posting threatening statements on social media posts that suggested that people would be justified in killing speakers who hold opposing views on issues like transgender policies. Wayne State University President M.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 21, 2020

the outcomes in Georgia, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania were worryingly close.”. Yet in the end, Joe Biden was elected by a sizable number electoral votes. Professor Hasbrouck adds however that “even with overwhelming Black support— 94 percent of Detroit voted for Biden!

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Bollinger , the court divided 5-4 on upholding race admissions criteria used to achieve “diversity” in a class at Michigan Law School. (On On the same day, the court ruled 6-3 to declare Michigan’s undergraduate admissions unconstitutional in the use of race in Gratz v. In 2003, in Grutter v. Bollinger.).

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 27, 2022

While many countries have decriminalized abortion, most are closer to Mississippi than Michigan in limiting abortion to the first or second trimester. States like Colorado, New Jersey, Oregon and Delaware actually protected abortion without any limit on the stage of a pregnancy — guaranteeing the right up to just before time of birth.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 3, 2024

Colorado and, now, Maine remain outliers after the Michigan Supreme Court rejected another disqualification effort in that state. 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

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

Now, the Michigan Attorney General and others are suggesting that Republicans who oppose certification or even meet with President Donald Trump on the issue could be criminally investigated or charged. Similar campaigns have targeted election officials who object to counting irregularities.

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