JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

This morning I will be joining the live coverage of the Supreme Court of the arguments over the disqualification of former President Donald Trump from the Colorado ballot under the 14th Amendment. We can expect the justices to focus on the three main questions before the Court: 1. Is section 3 self-executing?

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

While figures like Harvard Professor Laurence Tribe have assured the public that Trump is clearly disqualified under the theory, it is based on unsustainable historical and legal interpretations in my view. State Judge James Robert Redford rejected the challenge and found that the courts lack the claimed authority under the theory.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 21, 2023

” Those words from New York Times editorial board member Mara Gay on MSNBC captured the unhinged coverage of the Colorado Supreme Court’s disqualification of Donald Trump from the 2024 election. So those three Democratic appointees on the Colorado Supreme Court were just more confederate fellow travelers.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 30, 2022

Share Last term at the Supreme Court teemed with culture-war issues: guns , religion , climate change , COVID vaccines , and of course abortion. In 1978 , 2003 , and 2016 , the court affirmed that universities may consider applicants’ race as part of an effort to foster diversity on campus. Start with affirmative action. In Haaland v.

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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. Of course, he ignores Democratic members who sought to block certification of Republican presidents under the very same law with no factual or legal basis. Scott Perry.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 4, 2023

In states from Colorado to Michigan, Democratic operatives are arguing that Trump must be taken off the ballots because he gave “aid and comfort” to an “insurrection or rebellion.” So long as courts believe that a candidate’s speech is “capable of triggering disqualification,” that speech is unprotected in their view. 6 Capitol riot.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

Trump would often savage judges for being Democrats or liberals when there were good-faith legal disagreements over his policies. There are good-faith arguments that these bans contradict Supreme Court cases on the scope and meaning of the Second Amendment. In New York State Rifle &Pistol Association, Inc. Bruen , 142 S.Ct.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 20, 2021

Below is my column in USA Today on the remarkably united and non-ideological line of cases handed down by the Supreme Court. As Democratic leaders demand to pack the Court to create a liberal majority, the Court itself appears to be speaking through these cases. Religious freedom upheld in court. For example,?

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 27, 2022

That world is already taking shape with states crafting their laws reflecting the values of their citizens from Colorado passing a law protecting the right to abortion up to the moment of birth to Louisiana banning all abortions except in limited circumstances. Below is my Hill column on what to expect in a post-Roe world.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 26, 2022

When Dobbs was accepts, I wrote that for thirty years as a television and print legal analyst I have annually downplayed claims of commentators that a given case before the Court was a true threat to Roe. The issue of abortion will now return to the states where abortion is expected to remain legal for most women in the country.

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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

JANUARY 12, 2024

” Putting aside the assumption that the executive branch would go along with the massive purge, the suggestion is that neither the Congress nor the courts would move to stop the killing or confinement of all reporters and LGBTQ citizens. Because if we don’t, our country’s in big, big trouble. Does everybody understand what I’m saying?”

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

It is the same approach that the President took during the last presidential campaign where he simply refused to state his position on court packing until after the election. Those words from a Democratic political consultant refer to the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. In Dobbs v.

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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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JonathanTurley

JULY 19, 2021

This use of corporations is born out of political and legal convenience. Moreover, the Supreme Court upheld a mandatory state vaccine in 1905, but any federal mandate could face constitutional challenges. None of this, ‘I’m in Colorado … and getting paid like I’m sitting in New York City.’ Sorry, that doesn’t work.”

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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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JonathanTurley

MAY 1, 2021

The tweet was insulting and sophomoric but the action taken by the university is rightfully now a legal matter before the Eastern District of U.S. District Court of Tennessee. The defendants include Malone is suing Chancellor Steven Angle, athletic director Mark Wharton and coach Rusty Wright.

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