JonathanTurley

APRIL 15, 2021

The United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit this week upheld an Ohio law that bans doctors from performing abortions when they know the reason a woman is seeking an abortion is that her baby has Down syndrome. It is a major win for pro-life advocates but could face an appeal to the Supreme Court. The new law, H.B.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Share On Tuesday, the court heard argument in Jones v. Two decades into his prison term, the Supreme Court decided in Rehaif v. 2255 , which funneled challenges to federal convictions and sentences into a “motion to vacate” before the sentencing court. 922(g) and sentenced to more than 27 years’ incarceration.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 2, 2022

Now, an appellate court has upheld a $25 million judgment against the small college and Oberlin earned every penny of that penalty. Oberlin maintained in court filings that the son and grandson of the owners of Gibson’s Bakery “violently and unreasonably attacked” an unarmed student, but that is not how the police viewed it.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

In covering the motions hearing last week in the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse, I noted a surprising comment from Judge Bruce Schroeder that he had “spent hours” with the Wisconsin gun law and could not state with certainty what it means in this case. Criminal laws are supposed to be interpreted narrowly.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

The Supreme Court has held that “to the extent that [congressional officers] serve legislative functions, the performance of which would be immune. The court decided that Graham could be compelled to testify so long as investigators avoided discussing his legislative responsibilities. McMillan, 412 U.S. 306, 313 (1973); Gravel v.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 24, 2022

The South Carolina legislature is moving to enact a new law with deeply troubling free speech implications. In my view, the law violates the First Amendment and should be scuttled by the legislature. Otherwise, it would likely be struck down by the courts. ” The analogy to organized crime will not sustain such a law.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Below is my column in The Hill on what is shaping up to be a major Supreme Court term on the issues of parody and satire under the First Amendment. The Court could reframe the constitutional limits for criminal and civil liability in two cases currently on the docket, including one recently granted review. VIP Products LLC.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Image from Supreme Court Petition. Now the Court has accepted a different parody case involving Jack Daniels where the company is suing the maker of dog chew toys. He was charged (and later acquitted) of a felony under an Ohio law prohibiting the use of a computer to “disrupt” or “interrupt” police functions.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 3, 2023

We recently discussed a federal judge enjoining the new Illinois law banning “assault weapons.” ” Now a gun shop in Naperville, Illinois has made it to the Supreme Court in seeking injunctive relief and Justice Amy Coney Barrett has given the proponents of the law until Monday to respond to the request.

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JURIST

AUGUST 6, 2023

The US Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Friday that an 1890 state constitutional provision permanently preventing people convicted of certain felonies from voting, Section 241, is unconstitutional. This end-justifies-means analysis has no place in constitutional law.”

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

There is a major ruling this week in the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit where a three-judge panel ruled unanimously in United States v. Under the Government’s reading, Congress could remove “unordinary” or “irresponsible” or “non-law abiding” people—however expediently defined—from the scope of the Second Amendment.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

We recently discussed the ruling of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit striking down a ban on gun ownership by individuals accused of domestic abuse. The court noted that this provision “is rarely used by prosecutors, as it accounts for only about 5% of prosecutions brought under § 922.” Barr , 919 F.3d

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JURIST

APRIL 13, 2022

Two doctors joined two parents on behalf of their minor children to file a complaint Tuesday in federal court against the governor and the district attorneys of Alabama, Shelby County, and Jefferson County, to block Alabama’s Vulnerable Child Compassion and Protection Act (“VCCPA”) from going into effect on May 8, 2022.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 9, 2023

First, let’s look at the law. The California provision states that kidnapping involves someone who “abducts or takes by force or fraud any person contrary to the law of the place where that act is committed, and brings, sends, or conveys that person within the limits of this state.”

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Nevertheless, Rodrigues declared “it is a felony under Florida law to ‘knowingly provide material support … to a designated foreign terrorist organization.’” The Supreme Court has repeatedly struck down such content-based bans and has been particularly protective of free speech in higher education.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

The Attorney General of the United States may be one of the most perfectly tailored case for major Supreme Court decision. The Supreme Court recognized that this is not an “unlimited” right under the Constitution while affirming the right of “law-abiding, responsible citizens to use arms in defense of hearth and home.”

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 30, 2023

The defense could come at a cost at trial, but it is a calculated risk for the court of public opinion. The odds are against Trump on ultimately prevailing with that argument in the courts. The bravado defense is likely to play better with the public than a court. Trump repeated that defense this week.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 17, 2022

In past columns, we have discussed how Harvard Law professor Laurence Tribe seems intent upon running through the entire criminal code in declaring clear evidence of every federal crime by former President Donald Trump and/or his family. You don’t have to go to law school to know that there’s something seriously criminal about that.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 2, 2023

If it were intended to disrupt the congressional proceedings, it could be treated as a felony. this would more likely constitute a criminal misdemeanor. Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro professor of public interest law at George Washington University and a practicing criminal defense attorney. It could be a crime.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 18, 2021

In my 1999, Duke Law Journal article on impeachment, I wrote that “[t]he Senate majority, however, was correct in its view that impeachments historically extended to former officials, such as Warren Hastings.” As the Supreme Court itself has shown, new cases will often force a reexamination of what were collateral issues.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

.” When Trump or his allies made outlandish and unsupported claims about the law in the past, the media piled on with coverage stating that such claims were ridiculous or unfounded. I regularly called out Trump for such claims, including his call for changing whole areas of law like defamation. ” In Washington, D.C.,

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

The use of snap impeachment was unwise but constitutional. You can have a constitutional impeachment and an unconstitutional impeachment trial. It is like saying that a court must try a case because a grand jury properly indicted an individual. Courts can dismiss such cases on constitutional or legal flaws.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 29, 2021

However, he has adopted broad interpretations in justifying prosecution or impeachment of Trump from issues like emoluments with the same assurance of clarity and certainty (despite opposing rulings from various courts). He was calling for impeachment from the earliest days of the Trump Administration. That includes impeachable tweets.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

It did not matter that the Supreme Court has roundly rejected such sweeping interpretations of bribery, extortion and related political corruption. Others claimed Trump committed “felony bribery” by fundraising for Republican senators when he was about to be impeached. One possible reason is that it would collapse in court.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 14, 2021

Fred Schilling, US Supreme Court. Below is my column in the Hill on decisions issued by the Supreme Court in recent weeks and how they have served as a retort to those who are calling for court packing or major changes in the institution. The decisions were Terry v. Last week, the decision in Van Buren v.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Here is the column: Hunter Biden returned to court today on the felony indictment for his possession of a handgun, including allegations that he lied on an Oct.12, Jonathan Turley, an attorney, constitutional law scholar and legal analyst, is the Shapiro Chair for Public Interest Law at The George Washington University Law School.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 29, 2022

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. It can go up to 10 yeas for felonies like manslaughter, which were the charges brought against two defendants. Rick Snyder.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 26, 2021

The memo states that the prosecutors reviewed the Mueller evidence and concluded that the evidence “examined by the Special Counsel could not, as a matter of law, support an obstruction charge under the circumstances. It turns out that staff had made that conclusion as did some of us from existing and controlling case law.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

” That advocacy is being used to suggest that the group is guilty of a felony under Florida law to knowingly provide material aid or resources to a designated foreign terrorist organization. The emphasis remains on the word “ material ,” not political support under these laws, and has not yet been shown in Florida.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 7, 2020

From bribery statutes to constitutional provisions, legal experts routinely and unfailingly conclude that Trump or his family can be prosecuted or impeached for an endless array of misdeeds. Even theories denied by the Supreme Court are seen as valid when used against Trump. Tribe notes: “It doesn’t say ‘except the criminal laws.’

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 26, 2023

Two IRS whistleblowers recently confirmed that the expiration of potential tax felony crimes was raised with Weiss and the Department of Justice (DOJ). The deal disassembled in court after a few questions from the presiding judge about sweeping immunity language and other curious elements.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

Once again, the media is silent on this clearly abusive use of the criminal code target members of the opposing party in their raising objections under state law. Some of these questions are being addressed in the courts. United States , where the Court overturned the conviction of former Virginia governor Robert McDonnell.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Experts like Harvard law professor Laurence Tribe have previously declared Trump’s felonies were shown “without any doubt, beyond a reasonable doubt, beyond any doubt, and the crimes are obvious.” That speech appears protected by the First Amendment and existing Supreme Court precedent. At 4:17 p.m., In Brandenburg v.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 28, 2023

District Court for the District of Delaware. That is not even including potential felony charges for the original gun violation , money laundering, or other crimes. Jonathan Turley, an attorney, constitutional law scholar and legal analyst, is the Shapiro Chair for Public Interest Law at The George Washington University Law School.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 11, 2024

That alone will be an historic moment for Congress to declare that the son of a sitting president may have committed a federal felony. Nevertheless, in 2013, Democrats pushed through a rule change allowing most presidential nominees (but not Supreme Court nominees) to be confirmed by a simple majority vote.

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