JonathanTurley

MAY 31, 2021

While the lower courts ruled for Harvard, the trial judge did note that there may have been bias in favor of minority admissions and encouraged Harvard to deal with such “implicit bias” while monitoring “any significant race-related statistical disparities in the rating process.” Indeed, it may only exacerbate them.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 24, 2023

The Supreme Court has repeatedly held that racial discrimination does not become good policy despite being carried out with the best of motivations. the high court ruled that “legislative assurances of good intention cannot suffice.” Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at the George Washington University Law School.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 25, 2021

In addition, we have faced these controversies on campuses, including on the George Washington University campus. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit on Feb. 12 ruled that an Arkansas anti-BDS law violates the First Amendment. I was critical of France’s prosecution of BDS protesters. Recently, the U.S.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Lauren Handy and nine other anti-abortion activists were charged last year with conspiring to obstruct access to a Washington abortion clinic on Oct. They have asked for the dismissal of the indictment for lack of jurisdiction since the Court ruled in Dobbs that “the Constitution does not confer a right to abortion.”

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 18, 2021

In 2008, the Supreme Court handed down a landmark ruling in District of Columbia v. City of Chicago , the court ruled that this right applied against the states. Penal Law § 400.00(2)(f) Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 11, 2023

In one case involving challenged administrative law judges in 2018, the Supreme Court ruled in Lucia v. Executive officials do not have the authority to dismiss federal law any more than they have the authority to act without meeting the conditions to hold their positions under federal law.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 27, 2021

The Court could then have addressed the question in another case but elected to Arlene’s Flowers v. Washington in light of its decision. State of Washington and Arlene’s Flowers v. Then the Supreme court denied certiorari in July 2021. On June 15, 2021, a Colorado District Court ruled in Scardina v.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

Those words from the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals about Colorado’s Anti-Discrimination Act may be some of the most honest but chilling words ever uttered in a federal opinion. The court ruled that a state could not only compel an artist to speak but could prevent that artist from speaking, too.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 11, 2022

justice system and reduce mass incarceration, argues a Washington and Lee University law professor. Expansion of the jury trial right would constitute a meaningful structural reform in democratizing criminal justice, at a time when such change is needed to establish the popular legitimacy of the criminal justice system,” writes J.D.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

The Washington Post confirmed that the United States is one of only seven out of the world’s 198 countries that allow for abortions after the 20th week of pregnancy.). This term the court was presented with two pre-viability challenges. The court ruled 5-4 to allow the Texas law to be enforced.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 31, 2022

In court papers, she was identified only as “L.C.”. Four years later, her case reached the Supreme Court. In a 6-3 opinion by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the court ruled in Olmstead v. Dellinger lost both of those cases, but he notched plenty of victories, including in Washington v.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 13, 2021

Courts have upheld the right of citizens to insult police, which is an unfortunate aspect of policing. Thus, in 2015, the Washington Supreme Court ruled that police could not arrest a 17-year-old who called them “pigs.”

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Hunt , in which the Court struck down an Alabama law imposing a fee on all interstate waste coming into the state under the Dormant Commerce Clause. The Court ruled that “no state may attempt to isolate itself from a problem common to the several States by raising barriers to the free flow of interstate trade.”

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

469 (1989), the Supreme Court struck down a set-aside for minority businesses due to a lack of evidence of specific injuries. Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University. In City of Richmond v. For Newsom and for San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors, the bill is now due.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 1, 2021

As we await important and likely divided decisions on issues like abortion, Chief Justice John Roberts and his colleagues seem to be sending a message that the Court is not so rigidly ideological as Democratic members and activists suggest. Palomar-Santiago , an immigration decision that ruled for the government and against an immigrant.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 3, 2021

This term however has more drama and tension as Democrats call for packing the Court with an instant liberal majority and others attack its members in anticipation of opinions that have yet to be written. The reality is summed up in one of my favorite stories about Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes when he was on trip to Washington.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 3, 2022

After Dobbs was accepted, advocates sought to enjoin a Texas law that banned abortion after just six weeks. The court ruled 5-4 to allow the Texas law to be enforced. The court — as expected — allowed the appeal to go forward for some of the litigants in the lower court but again refused to enjoin the law.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 27, 2021

Last September, Stanford University and University of Washington researchers wrote that a Project Veritas video alleging voter fraud with unidentified sources was what a “a domestic, coordinated elite disinformation campaign looks like in the United States.” Project Veritas has been accused of misleading edits or accounts.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 4, 2022

After major rulings on gun rights, abortion and climate change, Democratic leaders and pundits declared the court to be “illegitimate.” Madison in 1803, when the court ruled that it must be the final arbiter of what the law means. For example, after the court ruled in Worcester v.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 8, 2022

Now, the Delaware Supreme Court has rejected a Democratic universal mail-in voting law as unconstitutional. The Delaware Supreme Court ruled on Friday that a state law enacting universal mail-in voting violated the state’s constitution.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

After long debating whether it even has this authority, OSHA has suddenly found it, and then has issued one of the most comprehensive health-based standards in its history — all without rule-making or debate. Ironically, the Supreme Court warned against such sudden agency “finds” of regulatory authority.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 13, 2022

San Francisco Regional Director Jill Coffman declared that the company is violating the rights of workers in 10 different states (Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Virginia, Maryland, Georgia, Washington, Indiana, and California). In her consolidated complaint against Whole Foods Market, Inc.,

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JonathanTurley

JULY 15, 2022

.” Ironically, it was the only part of the president’s remarks that is consistent with what the court actually said in its decision in Dobbs v. Wade, the court ruled that millions of citizens, not nine justices, must now decide the question of abortion. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. In overturning Roe v.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 5, 2021

1), for example, would negate state laws on voter identification and vote-curing rules and “ballot harvesting,” bar the purging of voter lists, dictate registration and removal conditions, and impose other federal rules in a massive 800-page takeover of elections. It seeks to negate the Supreme Court ruling in Shelby County 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”. State of Washington ex rel. Spokane County District Court , No. HERE ARE THE ADDITIONS TO THE CLIMATE CASE CHART SINCE UPDATE # 148. FEATURED CASE. Haskell v.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 24, 2021

In 1989, the Supreme Court ruled that a minority set-aside program in Virginia was unconstitutional under the Equal Protection Clause. The government cited historical barriers for minority enterprises, but the court balked. Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 3, 2022

In the past, politicians in cities like New York, Chicago and Washington, D.C., Moreover, the earlier ban was imposed in 1994 — before the Supreme Court ruled in District of Columbia v. Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 18, 2023

In the past, politicians in cities like New York, Chicago and Washington, D.C., Moreover, the earlier ban was imposed in 1994 — before the Supreme Court ruled in District of Columbia v. have proven to be the gun lobby’s greatest asset. Heller that the right to bear arms is an individual right.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 8, 2022

The same concerns were raised this week after Washington Gov. Such a law would threaten political speech and create a chilling effect for those who want to raise such concerns in contested elections. Indeed, this seems like an effort to evade the constitutional limits placed on incitement crimes by the courts.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 9, 2022

Nothing could be more damaging to the litigation and the federal courts quickly rejected the CDC and Tribe arguments. The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that the order was unconstitutional. In Washington, D.C., These losses began to pile up soon after the President took office.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 11, 2022

In 1981, a federal district court ruled in Idaho v. The Supreme Court later stayed that order but then declared the matter moot.). Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University. Yet, they still fell short. You “ start over.”.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 9, 2020

In an interview with the Washington Examiner, diGenova quickly stated that his comment was a joke and not intended as a threat. I was therefore gladdened by the Supreme Court ruling 8-1 in favor of the free speech in the case, even if it meant a victory for odious Westboro Church.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

The court has virtually invited Congress to pass laws giving people greater standing to sue the government. Yet this crisis is the result of decades of court rulings expanding executive powers while limiting the ability to challenge those policies.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 9, 2022

Rather than trying to force President Biden to enforce these laws, Congress could seek to allow states to do so. Yet if there is a case to be made for self-help, it is not to the courts but to the voters. Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 17, 2023

Indeed, many on the left have long denounced the Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United v. FEC where the Court recognized that businesses have free speech rights to contribute to elections. Notably, in the appellate court ruling in 303 Creative, the Tenth Circuit adopted a monopoly theory for speech compulsion.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Bollinger , the court divided 5-4 on upholding race admissions criteria used to achieve “diversity” in a class at Michigan Law School. (On On the same day, the court ruled 6-3 to declare Michigan’s undergraduate admissions unconstitutional in the use of race in Gratz v. In 2003, in Grutter v. Bollinger.).

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 19, 2021

Democrats in Washington have lionized Texas legislators who fled the state to prevent the passage of election reforms. These same Democrats have denounced the filibuster to block bills as a denial of democracy in Washington. The Texas order for the arrest of the legislators has been upheld by the Texas Supreme Court.

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