JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Below is my column in The Messenger on the Supreme Court’s rejection of the motion by Special Counsel Jack Smith to curtail the appellate review of Donald Trump’s claim of immunity. The Supreme Court, however, resisted such demands in a decision that declined to create a fast-track to favor the Special Counsel.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 31, 2022

Share At the end of each year, SCOTUSblog remembers some of the people whose lives and work left an imprint on the Supreme Court. 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. David Beckwith (Oct.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 24, 2023

Below is my column in the Hill on the call of professors for President Joe Biden to simply defy the Supreme Court and decide for himself what is constitutional and what is not. Here is the column: “ I shall resist any illegal federal court order.” Biden has previously evinced little respect for the Constitution or the courts.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 3, 2024

Below is my column in The Messenger on the challenge facing the Supreme Court in the coming week over the electoral disqualification of former president Donald Trump in Colorado and Maine. The appeal in Maine has been filed and can now work its way up to the Court. Colorado is expected to file with the Court this week.

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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. That is why the Supreme Court needs to take up this issue and put this pernicious theory to bed once and for all. Scott Perry.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 6, 2023

Others are only focusing on the injunctive relief rather than the court’s finding that these states are substantially likely to prevail on the merits in showing that the government use social media companies as surrogates for censorship. Here is the column: The most massive attack against free speech in United States history.”

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 29, 2023

.” There is widespread support for barring attacks on court staff and Trump did attack the Court’s clerk in a prior posting. In my view, criticism of the case, the court, and the prosecutor should be treated as protected speech. Where to draw this line is the subject of this column.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 29, 2023

After months of dire predictions of a coup in the making, the Court overwhelmingly rejected the underlying “independent state legislature,” as some of us predicted. Harper, in which North Carolina legislators argued that state courts could not override state legislatures on federal election districts.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 31, 2023

Years ago, my medical colleagues at George Washington University were performing cardiac surgery on an elderly law professor when his arm slipped off the table. Tom would make it with his mother to the United States and ultimately studied law, with a J.D. at New York University Law School and his LL.M.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Law schools are also facing controversial mandates. In 2022, the American Bar Association required law schools to “provide education to law students on bias, cross-cultural competency, and racism: (1) at the start of the program of legal education, and (2) at least once again before graduation.” and Maurice C.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 8, 2022

It was always doubtful that a law school would take the unprecedented step of barring a sitting Supreme Court justice. The problem is that most targets of these campaigns have neither the status nor the day job of a Supreme Court justice. The reason? His vote to overturn Roe v.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Below is a longer version of my column in the New York Post on the gag order motion docketed Friday night in Washington, D.C. Smith told District Judge Tanya Chutkan in Washington, D.C., However, there are laws on the books allowing for the prosecution of such cases. by Special Counsel Jack Smith. Robert McDonnell.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 3, 2023

That eagerness could prove the court’s undoing, however. The New York law is unique in allowing massive penalties without the loss of a single dollar by a bank. However, James wants dissolution and crippling damages, and that could trigger a higher-court review. Supreme Court decided a case, BMW of North America v.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

It is the “why not” approach to criminal and constitutional law. One possible reason Willis dropped some of these targets is that she knew the indictment of these senators would have been quickly and firmly rejected by the courts as the criminalization of political speech. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) This “Why not?”

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 20, 2023

While the odds tend to favor the lower court in such orders, there is ample reason to object to the scope and language of the order. Her order bars Trump from making statements against Smith, his staff, court personnel, and potential witnesses. It is not surprising that Smith dismisses such concerns.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Here is the column: With the formal approval of the impeachment inquiry into the conduct of President Joe Biden, the alarm and denial in Washington has reached an almost hysterical level. This false narrative is being repeated despite the fact courts have rejected this claim in actual criminal cases.

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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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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Lincoln Caplan is a senior research scholar and a visiting lecturer in law at Yale Law School and also teaches in Yale’s English and political science departments. By 5-4, in Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. Seattle School District No. They are his most powerful.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Now even law deans have called Supreme Court justices “hacks” to the delight of their followers. Tribe often shows little patience for the niceties of constitutional law or tradition. He has supported the call for packing the Supreme Court as long overdue. Take student loan forgiveness.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 19, 2024

The court has indicated that it may hold hearings on the controversy in early February. That could present a possible delay if the court believes that a change in prosecutors (or even a change in venue) is needed in the interests of justice. Below is my column in The Messenger on the unfolding Fani Willis scandal in Georgia.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 30, 2023

Not only are defendants scattering, but some are seeking to go to federal court where the trial would not likely be televised, as the Georgia prosecutors reportedly want. Regardless of the ruling of the court, it is likely to be appealed. However, Willis is trying to hold together a case to try them en masse and in state court.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 28, 2023

Here is the column: The collapse of the Hunter Biden plea bargain has left many in Washington shocked. District Court for the District of Delaware. That is what is called a “happy ending” in Washington. The real question is whether the fix in this case will fail and leave the President with the pardon option behind the glass.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 4, 2023

In a recent filing supporting this effort, figures as prominent as media lawyer Floyd Abrams and Berkeley Dean Erwin Chemerinsky have told the Colorado Supreme Court that preventing voters from being able to cast their votes for Trump is just a way of “fostering democracy.” Jonathan Turley is the J.B. and Maurice C.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 8, 2022

Then we all read the rationale from Law Dean William Treanor , who adopted a technicality that not only avoided a full endorsement of Shapiro’s rights but left a menacing uncertainty as to his (and any other conservative’s) future protections at Georgetown University Law School.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Any first-year law student knows that you cannot comment on the silence of a Mirandized defendant after an arrest under the Fifth Amendment – let alone ignore a court order. Jonathan Turley, a member of USA TODAY’s Board of Contributors, is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 24, 2023

Courts have repeatedly found the Biden administration to be engaging in racial discrimination in such programs. Another court held that the administration engaged in systemic discrimination in implementing COVID-19 relief for restaurants and bars. the high court ruled that “legislative assurances of good intention cannot suffice.”

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 12, 2023

This includes the truly bizarre suggestion of the Washington Post’s Jennifer Rubin that the GOP “invited” the terror attack in Israel by allowing eight members and the entire Democratic block to vacate the chair. I also have represented both Democratic and Republican members in court. Steve Scalise (R.,

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 9, 2023

For example, Biden conceded that his own White House counsel and trusted legal advisers uniformly told him that renewing a national eviction moratorium would be unconstitutional — but he listened instead to a Harvard law professor who reportedly assured him he had the authority.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

This switchboarding process was confirmed by Brian Scully of the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), during prior court testimony. Ohio , 378 U.S. 184 (1964): “I shall not today attempt further to define [it] … But I know it when I see it.”

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Thus, the argument goes, even though he was the subject of the influence peddling, Joe Biden did not legally or constitutionally benefit from the payments to constitute bribery or other crimes. Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at the George Washington University Law School. That is utter nonsense.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 11, 2024

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. And, eventually, the Democratic Party will find itself one short-sell short of political and ethical bankruptcy.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Indeed, according to a poll from ABC News and the Washington Post this week, 58 percent believe that President Biden is being “held accountable under the law like any other president” in this inquiry. In reality, there is no constitutional requirement for a resolution to launch an inquiry.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Legally, there are both individuals and institutions that could see significant changes with the new division of power in Washington. Constitutionalism: The last two years have seen frontal assaults on constitutional values ranging from separation of powers to free speech. Elizabeth Warren, who called for raw court packing.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 27, 2022

Ballis is saying that you are welcome to return as long as you do not represent those people who want to submit claims to the federal courts on constitutional rights. The Supreme Court has decided since Heller that the Second Amendment bestows an individual right.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 23, 2023

In a New York Times column, “The Constitution Is Broken and Should Not Be Reclaimed,” law professors Ryan D. Doerfler of Harvard and Samuel Moyn of Yale called for the Constitution to be “radically altered” to “reclaim America from constitutionalism.” has questioned the need for a Supreme Court. Others like Sen.

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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

OCTOBER 12, 2021

I recently discussed the Supreme Court’s affirmance of a decision rejecting constitutional arguments that the District of Columbia is entitled to a vote in Congress. I have repeatedly testified and written on the constitutional barriers to such a vote absent statehood. I was delighted when he accepted.

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