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Child 3930: The Implausible and Wonderful Life of Tom Buergenthal

JonathanTurley

Years ago, my medical colleagues at George Washington University were performing cardiac surgery on an elderly law professor when his arm slipped off the table. Tom would make it with his mother to the United States and ultimately studied law, with a J.D. at New York University Law School and his LL.M.

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No Laughing Matter: “Life of Brian” is the Latest Battleground for the Future of Comedy

JonathanTurley

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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Hunter Biden’s 7% Solution: Using Addiction to Excuse Corruption

JonathanTurley

Hunter Biden’s 7% solution won’t do much to help the public resolve what really happened here — but it may help those in Washington who prefer to discuss addiction instead of corruption.

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Becerra’s Blunder: Did the Administration Allow Fauci and other Officials to Operate Illegally?

JonathanTurley

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. Ironically, near the end of his career, those may have been financial gains from a function that he did not legally possess.

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The lives they lived and the court they shaped: Remembering those we lost in 2022

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In 1973, Beckwith was a recent graduate of law school and was working as a political reporter for TIME magazine. During an illustrious career as a constitutional law scholar and a top Supreme Court advocate, Walter Dellinger argued 24 times before the court, including in some of the biggest cases of the past 30 years.

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Doubting Thomas: Why The Failure to Cancel a Supreme Court Justice May Not Mean Much for Other “Contingent” Faculty

JonathanTurley

It was always doubtful that a law school would take the unprecedented step of barring a sitting Supreme Court justice. It’s not an unfamiliar position for the Supreme Court justice, but it generated surprising support at a leading law school. The reason? His vote to overturn Roe v.

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Rittenhouse Goes To Jury After Case Collapses in Court

JonathanTurley

Her guest, MSNBC legal analyst and Georgetown law professor Paul Butler, concurred and called it “the greatest performance of (his) life.”. Butler declared Rittenhouse “ was well-prepared by his defense attorneys to disrupt his image as a trigger-happy vigilante who went on a shooting rampage at a Black Lives Matter protest.”.

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