JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

I have the honor of speaking today at the Tenth Circuit judicial conference in Colorado Springs, Colorado. I will be part of a panel discussing the Supreme Court’s recent religious freedom cases and related First Amendment issues. Lucero of the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals. the Court handed down two major such rulings.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 27, 2021

There is a new ruling out of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit that could be headed for a major showdown in the Supreme Court. Elenis could force a hitherto evasive Court to rule directly on the conflict between anti-discrimination laws and the religious clauses. It was like Brown v.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

Below is my column in the Hill on the acceptance of a major new case by the Supreme Court on the issue of free speech and anti-discrimination laws. However, this case has the makings of a major course change for the Court. The court ultimately punted in that case, Masterpiece Cakeshop v.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Below is my column in The Hill on the start of the new Term for the Supreme Court. ” Does that make the three liberals justices voting together on the Court the “judicial arm of the Democratic Party”? .” That is, of course, manifestly true for the highest court in the land. I was wrong. Of course not.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 17, 2023

For years, the courts have struggled with this issue with bakers, photographers, and other businesses refusing to create products for same-sex weddings. The court largely punted the case on narrow grounds. After she lost before Tenth Circuit, she brought a challenge to the Supreme Court under both the religious and free speech clauses.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 29, 2021

As we wait for the final cases from the Supreme Court this week, Monday was confined to orders of the Court, including the granting and denial of review of cases. That is hardly news on a Court that rejects most petitions for a writ of certiorari. This week, the Mexican Supreme Court decriminalized recreational use of marijuana.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 10, 2021

When Masterpiece Cakeshop in Colorado refused on religious grounds to make a cake for a same-sex wedding, Sen. When the Supreme Court ruled in the Citizens United case that corporations have free speech rights to participate in politics, Warren was appalled. .” Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.)

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

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”. The Supreme Court reversed an intermediate appellate court’s decision affirming a superior court determination that the defendant could not present a necessity defense.

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