SCOTUSBlog

JULY 21, 2021

Share The Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court reconvened on Tuesday to hear from a new set of experts on various ideas for Supreme Court reform. 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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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 31, 2022

Share At the end of each year, SCOTUSblog remembers some of the people whose lives and work left an imprint on the Supreme Court. 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. David Beckwith (Oct.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 11, 2023

Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit rejected claims that appointment violations were mere technical concerns. Kijikazi that such a “violation is thus no mere technicality or quaint formality — it weakens our constitutional design. Last September, for example, the U.S. It stressed in Cody v.

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JULY 8, 2022

It was always doubtful that a law school would take the unprecedented step of barring a sitting Supreme Court justice. The problem is that most targets of these campaigns have neither the status nor the day job of a Supreme Court justice. The reason? His vote to overturn Roe v.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Any first-year law student knows that you cannot comment on the silence of a Mirandized defendant after an arrest under the Fifth Amendment – let alone ignore a court order. Her guest, MSNBC legal analyst and Georgetown law professor Paul Butler, concurred and called it “the greatest performance of (his) life.”.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 19, 2024

The court has indicated that it may hold hearings on the controversy in early February. That could present a possible delay if the court believes that a change in prosecutors (or even a change in venue) is needed in the interests of justice. Below is my column in The Messenger on the unfolding Fani Willis scandal in Georgia.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 9, 2023

California Attorney General Rob Bonta (D) chimed in, declaring the flight from Florida might be “ State-sanctioned kidnapping.” Attorney for the District of Massachusetts, announced that she was taking a look, “long and hard,” at potential charges. The reason is that these claims are made for cable news, not courts of law.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 7, 2022

Shapiro Professor Of Public Interest Law. The George Washington University Law School. Former Special Agent, Federal Bureau of Investigation. Washington, D.C. Garnell Whitfield, Jr. Buffalo, NY. Former U.S. Northern District of Ohio. Cleveland, OH. Professor Jonathan Turley. Washington, D.C.

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DECEMBER 3, 2023

The testimony put the controversial demands of New York Attorney General James into sharp relief. The charges brought by New York State Attorney General Letitia James were curious from the start. That eagerness could prove the court’s undoing, however. Supreme Court decided a case, BMW of North America v.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 9, 2022

In 2005, the Supreme Court unanimously overturned accounting firm Arthur Andersen’s conviction for its destruction of documents under a standard record-management system. Jonathan Turley is an attorney and professor at George Washington University Law School. He has both the public and free speech on his side.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 15, 2023

This false narrative is being repeated despite the fact courts have rejected this claim in actual criminal cases. Jonathan Turley is an attorney and professor at George Washington University Law School.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 13, 2022

During his time as an associate justice from 1877 to 1911, he broke with his colleagues in some of the most consequential – and infamous – rulings that the court has ever issued. He is also a graduate of Columbia Law School. Harlan also joined a unanimous court in 1889 in rejecting a challenge to the Chinese Exclusion Act.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 30, 2023

Below is my column in The Messenger on the early struggle of Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis to preserve her strategy of holding a mass 19-person trial over the 2020 election case involving former president Donald Trump. Regardless of the ruling of the court, it is likely to be appealed. Willis already faces two challenges.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 29, 2023

.” There is widespread support for barring attacks on court staff and Trump did attack the Court’s clerk in a prior posting. In my view, criticism of the case, the court, and the prosecutor should be treated as protected speech. Where to draw this line is the subject of this column.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 17, 2022

You don’t have to go to law school to know that there’s something seriously criminal about that. After the riot, District of Columbia Attorney General Karl Racine announced that he was considering arresting Trump, Donald Trump Jr., It was due to the paucity of direct evidence of a crime that would hold up in court.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Below is my column in The Messenger on the Supreme Court’s rejection of the motion by Special Counsel Jack Smith to curtail the appellate review of Donald Trump’s claim of immunity. The Supreme Court, however, resisted such demands in a decision that declined to create a fast-track to favor the Special Counsel.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 19, 2021

Richard Ashby Wilson, associate law school dean at the University of Connecticut, said “Trump crossed the Rubicon and incited a mob to attack the U.S. District of Columbia Attorney General Karl Racine then thrilled many by declaring that he was investigating Trump for a possible incitement charge. Trump’s Jan.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 30, 2023

The defense could come at a cost at trial, but it is a calculated risk for the court of public opinion. The odds are against Trump on ultimately prevailing with that argument in the courts. The bravado defense is likely to play better with the public than a court. Trump repeated that defense this week.

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JULY 6, 2023

Others are only focusing on the injunctive relief rather than the court’s finding that these states are substantially likely to prevail on the merits in showing that the government use social media companies as surrogates for censorship. Here is the column: The most massive attack against free speech in United States history.”

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

It did not matter that the Supreme Court has roundly rejected such sweeping interpretations of bribery, extortion and related political corruption. Richard Ashby Wilson, associate law school dean at the University of Connecticut, said “Trump crossed the Rubicon and incited a mob to attack the U.S. That simply is not true.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 11, 2023

One of the early issues for the court in Florida will be whether to gag the former president from campaigning on this matter. That could raise serious free-speech concerns and could prove one of the early appellate issues in the case if the court imposes strict limits on what Trump can say about it.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Here is the column: Hunter Biden returned to court today on the felony indictment for his possession of a handgun, including allegations that he lied on an Oct.12, 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

AUGUST 15, 2023

District Attorney Fani Willis appears to have elected to charge everything and everyone and let God sort them out. The long-anticipated indictment by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is expected in the coming days and will focus on alleged election tampering and related offenses in the 2020 presidential election.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

This switchboarding process was confirmed by Brian Scully of the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), during prior court testimony. Ohio , 378 U.S. 184 (1964): “I shall not today attempt further to define [it] … But I know it when I see it.”

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 2, 2022

District Court for the Central District of California this week have electrified commentators across the networks and the Internet. The declarations by the court have led to a frenzy in the media and renewed calls for the prosecution of the former president. Attorney General Racine that he was pursuing possible charges.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 27, 2020

The threat to the free press is obvious and was the basis for foundational court decisions. The Supreme Court ruled that tort law could not be used to overcome First Amendment protections for free speech or the free press. Like “disinformation,” it is heavily laden with subjectivity.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 17, 2023

However, the odds of Trump going to prison could depend more on the court of public opinion than on the court of law. Acting Assistant Attorney General Mary Lawton issued the three-page memo , which was lacking both depth and support. The Constitution does not bar such self-dealing any more than it bars self-pardons.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 3, 2024

Below is my column in The Messenger on the challenge facing the Supreme Court in the coming week over the electoral disqualification of former president Donald Trump in Colorado and Maine. The appeal in Maine has been filed and can now work its way up to the Court. Colorado is expected to file with the Court this week.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 9, 2023

Notably, the New York Times has reported that Biden has had his own Thomas Becket moments in telling aides that he wanted Trump indicted and criticizing the Attorney General Merrick Garland for the delay. His eviction-ban order was quickly found unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.

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AUGUST 26, 2023

However, the greatest case for an impeachment inquiry was made by Attorney General Merrick Garland himself. the case for an inquiry came from a most unlikely source: Attorney General Merrick Garland. Attorney David Weiss was a growing concern for many observers. For House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.),

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 5, 2024

These efforts show how this theory could place this country on a slippery slope to political chaos if not clearly and finally rejected by the Supreme Court. That is why the Supreme Court needs to take up this issue and put this pernicious theory to bed once and for all. Scott Perry.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Below is my column in The Messenger of the Colorado Supreme Court decision disqualifying former President Donald Trump from the 2024 election. Here is the column: he Colorado Supreme Court has issued an unsigned opinion, making history in the most chilling way possible. In California, Lieutenant Gov.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

The motion states that Trump’s “recent extrajudicial statements are intended to undermine public confidence in an institution — the judicial system — and to undermine confidence in and intimidate individuals — the Court, the jury pool, witnesses, and prosecutors.” These courts have elected to daisy-chain trials before the election.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 20, 2023

Supreme Court, which rebuked Smith for what it termed the “Government’s boundless interpretation.” However, relying on bad advice or bad law is not a crime. President Joe Biden, like his predecessors, has been accused of knowing disregard of statutory and constitutional law, including repeated losses before the Supreme Court.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Constitutionalism: The last two years have seen frontal assaults on constitutional values ranging from separation of powers to free speech. While courts repeatedly found Biden to have violated the Constitution , Congress remained conspicuously silent even as it joined the president in declaring Republicans threats to the Constitution.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 28, 2023

District Court for the District of Delaware. 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. The problem was the one notable omission: Judge Maryellen Noreika of the U.S.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 1, 2023

In reality, there is no constitutional requirement for a resolution to launch an inquiry. Indeed, when this matter previously went to court, a federal judge held that even “in cases of presidential impeachment, a House resolution has never, in fact, been required to begin an impeachment inquiry.”

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