JonathanTurley

JANUARY 1, 2022

The Supreme Court is preparing for arguments on January 7th in three cases looking at the legality of the vaccine mandate issued by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). Courts have split on what White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain admits was a “workaround” of the limits on the President’s authority.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 7, 2021

In a demonstrably meritless lawsuit, 22 Texas House Democrats sued some of the state’s top Republican leaders in federal court in Austin over the efforts to bring them home for a special legislative session. Philip Cortez , D-San Antonio, after he returned to the Texas. Phelan signed a civil warrant for Rep. James White.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Below is my column in The Hill on reaction to the refusal of the Supreme Court to enjoin the Texas abortion law. The order of the Court expressly did not reach the merits and certainly did not, as claimed, overturn Roe v. The Texas law is not even the greatest threat to Roe. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.)

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Constitutional Law Reporter

MARCH 10, 2022

Supreme Court recently returned to the bench for its February sitting. The issues before the Court involved Native American law and immigration. Below is a brief summary of the cases before the Court: Denezpi v. Texas : The case involves gaming activities on Native American land in Texas. Texas , 36 F.3d

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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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MAY 24, 2021

New York Attorney General Letitia James’ announcement last week that her office was “actively investigating the Trump Organization in a criminal capacity” has added to the former president’s legal worries, but the biggest landmine believed to threaten his political future has yet to be detonated. and conviction?Trump

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 28, 2022

Share When the Supreme Court ended the constitutional right to abortion in Dobbs v. The Dobbs majority opinion was the third-longest Supreme Court opinion since the beginning of the 1946-47 term, according to our analysis. Both trends could further diminish perceptions of a collegial and productive court.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 27, 2022

Bruen invokes the authority of history but presents a version of the past that is little more than an ideological fantasy, much of it invented by gun-rights advocates and their libertarian allies in the legal academy with the express purpose of bolstering litigation such as Bruen. Bruen does mark a new low for the court.

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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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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Share In 2018, California voters approved Proposition 12, a ballot initiative that its supporters describe as the country’s strongest law to protect farm animals. On Tuesday, the Supreme Court will hear oral argument in a challenge to the constitutionality of the law.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 18, 2022

Here is the column: Throughout its history, the Supreme Court has overturned long-standing precedents, as it did recently in Dobbs v. Such changes are like the shifting of tectonic plates, triggering earthquakes and volcanic eruptions in the legal lithosphere. Jackson Women’s Health Organization.

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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. criticized me for offering “legal opinions” without working at Twitter.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 3, 2022

Below is my column in the Hill on upcoming year for the Supreme Court. The Court’s docket is likely to put the institution at ground zero of a heated election year. Here is the column: The late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg once observed that “it’s hard not to have a big year at the Supreme Court.”

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DECEMBER 26, 2023

Yet it was hard to ignore that this particular Papa John’s has set its bar for hiring perilously low — about as low as that of federal law regarding the purchase or possession of most firearms, even after adoption of the recent gun-control legislation. Legally, there are limits to the vehicles I can take for a spin.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

I recently wrote a column on the legal challenges to President Joe Biden’s vaccine mandate issued through OSHA. I asked how a court would respond to such an admission. Late Friday, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit cited Klain’s comment in its decision enjoining the mandate.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 9, 2022

.” It was an ironic statement from a president who has racked up an impressive array of losses in the courts which have found that he has repeatedly disregarded constitutional limits. There was no push back from Kimmel on a statement that is dramatically at odds with the President’s actual record in the courts.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 21, 2021

Below is my column in the Hill on the growing number of losses by the Biden Administration in courts around the country, including a particularly embarrassing loss before the United States Supreme Court. Yet, many previously outspoken legal experts have either blamed conservative judges or simply ignored the losses all together.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 24, 2021

So a ruling by a federal district court in Texas this week was particularly jarring: Judge Reed O’Connor found that the Biden administration engaged in systemic gender and race discrimination to implement COVID-19 relief for American restaurants. The government cited historical barriers for minority enterprises, but the court balked.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 2, 2023

We recently discussed a federal court ruling that the Texas law requiring age verification and warning for porn sites was unconstitutional. Now, Judge Timothy Brooks in Arkansas has found that another state law imposing age verification requirements for social media violates the First Amendment. In Netchoice, LLC v.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 17, 2021

The bills are the latest examples of “gotcha legislation,” though the Florida bill could raise some interesting legal questions if Gov. In California, Newsom pledged to re-purpose the Texas “heartbeat law” to limit gun rights. Newsom’s gun ‘heartbeat’ law. The same would likely be true for the California law.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 19, 2021

” With that line, Biden pledged to indemnify people who violate state laws, including orders upheld by the courts. Biden’s call to use civil rights laws to challenge anti-mask mandates was itself controversial. The Administration racked up an impression array string of losses by the first six months in court.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 25, 2022

Jackson Women’s Health Organization, politicians and pundits have denounced the Supreme Court justices and the Court itself for holding opposing views on the interpretation of the Court. Speaker Nancy Pelosi called the justices “ right-wing politicians ” and many journalists called the Court “activists.”

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 23, 2021

For a year, legal and media experts have stated as fact that area was cleared for that purpose and that Barr was lying about the federal agencies using tear gas as opposed to pepper balls (even though the legal and practical difference is largely immaterial). The difference has little real significance either legally or practically.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 11, 2022

It is not only legally and medically false but it is dangerous if women actually believe what they are hearing or reading from these figures. Here is the column: After the Court’s decision in Dobbs v. .” It is a great talking point but it just happens to be untrue as both a legal and medical matter.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

MAY 17, 2022

Supreme Court has concluded its oral arguments for the October 2021 Term. Below is a brief summary of the cases before the Court: Nance v. On remand, the lower courts found that Kennedy lost his job solely because of his religious expression. In Bucklew v. Precythe , 139 S. ” Petitioner filed suit under 42 U.S.C.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Notably, neither Murphy nor the media are alleging that Biden is “kidnapping” or “trafficking” in immigrants as has been the case with flights and buses sent by the governors of Texas and Florida. There is a key legal distinction at play in these moves. This authority preempts state authority in the area.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Numerous groups attack the viability standard that the court adopted in Roe v. Three physicians and the Catholic Association Foundation write that advances in science have “painted an intimate portrait of the fetus and its humanity” and therefore the court’s viability framework is outdated. Amicus briefs supporting Mississippi.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 9, 2023

.” The problem, however, is that this is just like the transport of migrants to Martha’s Vineyard in September 2022, which a number of Democratic leaders and legal experts insisted was also a clear case of kidnapping and human trafficking. First, let’s look at the law. Newsom previously asked the U.S.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Whether a “workaround” or a “pathway,” the move would allow the federal government to dictate public health measures in every state – a claim that will face major federalism challenges in court. Instead, it will sue directly as a party in interest because the law is viewed as countermanding a constitutional right.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 5, 2022

While denouncing what they see as the Court abandoning its principles, they are celebrating someone who violated every ethical and professional principle in leaking this draft opinion. Here is the column: Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor surprised many court watchers in December during the oral argument in Dobbs v.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 9, 2022

Below is my column in the Hill on the effort to declare an “invasion” along the Texas border to allow the state to take greater control along the border to stem the flow of illegal immigrants. This week, Texas Gov. The legal difference is obvious. United States. Here is the column: “We’re being invaded.”

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Constitutional Law Reporter

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

The Supreme Court heard oral arguments in at least two blockbuster cases last week. Bruen, the Court considered the constitutionality of a New York gun law. Based on oral arguments, it appeared that a majority of the Court could be persuaded that the law runs afoul of the Second Amendment. 8, but the U.S.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

In the law, it is called an admission against interest or an out-of-court statement by a party that, when uttered, is against the party’s pecuniary, proprietary, or penal interests. The problem is that the thing being “worked around” is the Constitution. In politics, it is called just dumb.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

District Judge Mark Pittman of the Northern District of Texas has issued an opinion declaring that President Joe Biden violated the Constitution in unilaterally forgiving the debt before the midterm election. I previously criticized the legal basis for the loan forgiveness program.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 12, 2020

NJ) has a serious problem with Republicans going to court. Now Pascrell is declaring that 120 House Republicans signing a “Friend of the Court brief” (or amicus brief ) is tantamount to supporting a rebellion against the United States and that they should be blocked from taking their seats in Congress. Bill Pascrell (D.,

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 13, 2021

President Joe Biden is facing an embarrassing and growing problem as he continues to declare his focus on ending racial discrimination: another federal court appears close to ruling that his Administration is engaging in raw racial discrimination. (Official White House Photo/Adam Schultz). American Rescue Plan Debt Payments, U.S. ’ Dkt.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 3, 2021

Yet, the host of legal experts and media who condemned the use of tear gas and the clearing of the Lafayette park area last year are entirely silent on the disclosures. Her administration insisted in court that the protesters were legitimately teargassed by the metropolitan police to enforce her curfew that night.

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