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Florida Homeowner Fined For Displaying “Let’s Go Brandon” and Pro-Trump Banners on Home

JonathanTurley

There is an interesting constitutional fight brewing in Florida. Marvin Peavy is part of that movement and hanged a banner with the chant (with a pro Trump banner) from his home in Seagrove Beach, Florida. The law is notably neutral on content. Roof signs; 12. Signs containing moving parts.

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Packing Services: Federal Judge Rules Ban on Guns in Post Offices is Unconstitutional

JonathanTurley

In Florida, U.S. District Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle has ruled that the federal law prohibiting people from possessing firearms inside post offices is unconstitutional. The ruling is based on 2022 Supreme Court ruling New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. That is all.

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The Rise of Gotcha Legislation: Newsom and DeSantis are Legislating Soundbites and Voters are Loving it.

JonathanTurley

Below is my column in The Hill on the recent bills proposed in Florida and California on immigration and guns. The bills are the latest examples of “gotcha legislation,” though the Florida bill could raise some interesting legal questions if Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) and Florida Gov. Newsom’s gun ‘heartbeat’ law.

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Federal Subsidy or Accessory? Biden Pledges to Effectively Subsidize Violations of State Laws By Teachers

JonathanTurley

There was a great deal of criticism of President Joe Biden’s press conference from his refusal to take questions on the Afghanistan situation to his calling for the use of Civil Rights laws to oppose any state laws barring mask mandates. Legally, the President just pledged to indemnify the violation of state law.

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Supreme Court Delivers New Rebuke to the Biden Administration in Reinstating the “Remain in Mexico”

JonathanTurley

This week the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 to strike down President Biden’s renewal of the controversial eviction moratorium. In the prior decision, the Court ruled 5-4 decision in Alabama Association of Realtors v. They are acts in open defiance of the existing law or recent rulings of the Supreme Court.

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

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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. Jackson Women’s Health Organization , David Beckwith published the original Supreme Court abortion leak. In court papers, she was identified only as “L.C.”.

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Eleventh Circuit Rejects Transgender Student’s Challenge to Bathroom Policy

JonathanTurley

On December 30, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit handed down a major opinion in in Adams v. Johns County, Florida. The court ruled 7-4 against a statutory and constitutional challenge of a transgender student to a district policy requiring students to use bathrooms corresponding to their biological sex.

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