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Michigan Judge Declares She Will Preside Over Planned Parenthood Case Despite Her Prior Representation and Donations

JonathanTurley

When I was clerking in Louisiana after graduating law school, there was story of a rather notorious local judge asking counsel in a criminal case if he was ready to present the case of the defendant. That law has been treated as dormant given the 1973 decision in Roe v. On the other side is Attorney General Dana Nessel (D-Mich.),

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Could The Arrest of FBI Agent Undermine The Whitmer Kidnapping Case?

JonathanTurley

However, Trask was also key to the arrest of men in the alleged plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. As a criminal defense attorney, I have long been a critic of the degree to which the FBI often pushes defendants to take actions to trigger criminal charges. Trask’s affidavit was used to arrest the men in the Michigan case.

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Biden to create bipartisan commission on Supreme Court reform

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The co-chairs of the commission, which will complete its report within 180 days of its first public meeting, are Bob Bauer, an NYU law professor who served as White House counsel to President Barack Obama, and Cristina Rodríguez, a Yale Law School professor who served as a deputy assistant attorney general during the Obama administration.

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Are You in an Anti-Free Speech State? We Now Have The Definitive List

JonathanTurley

However, 23 Democrat-led states joined this ignoble effort in signing on to the brief of California Attorney General Rob Bonta. California has long sought to impose speech limits on doctors , businesses , and citizens to silence opposing viewpoints. Biden–New York et al.

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“Be Aggressive and Go All the Way”: Abortion Could be Headed Back to the Supreme Court

JonathanTurley

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.”. Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) has called upon President Biden to make the pills available over-the-counter.

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No, Rashida Tlaib Should Not Be Sanctioned by the Michigan Bar

JonathanTurley

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. House of Representatives publicly censured Attorney Tlaib for her statements.

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“Star Chamber Comeback”: Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel Loses Flint Water Cases in Spectacular Fashion

JonathanTurley

Attorney General Dana Nessel has lost the Flint case in spectacular fashion this week. 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. juror) to charge them.”