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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.
JonathanTurley
OCTOBER 31, 2022
Here is the column: Forty-four years ago, the Supreme Court was the center of a raging protest by thousands as the justices took up the case of Regents of the University of California v. As a teenage congressional page, I was one of the faces in that crowd gathered around the court in October 1977 to watch history being made.
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JonathanTurley
NOVEMBER 20, 2023
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.” I have long incorporated race issues in my classes. Jonathan Turley is the J.B.
JonathanTurley
AUGUST 30, 2021
Recently, I was critical of a Washington Post column by University of California-Berkeley Dean Erwin Chemerinsky and Professor Aaron S. Edlin, who argued for a legal challenge of the recall election of Callifornia Gov. However, Fitzgerald saw no constitutional barrier to the citizens of California creating such a system.
JonathanTurley
OCTOBER 5, 2021
The United States Supreme Court affirmed the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia (and the later denial of a motion for consideration ) in rejecting the much touted lawsuit to give residents a vote in Congress. I have written about D.C. residents a vote in Congress without statehood.
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.
JonathanTurley
OCTOBER 19, 2021
Generally there is no duty to rescue or to call police under the common law. For example, Washington state allows for the charging of a misdemeanor. The law covers violent crimes, sexual assault, and assault of a child. The language of this Court in Brown v. Some states have moved to penalize those who do not call police.
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