Constitutional Law Court Litigation Michigan 
JonathanTurley
APRIL 18, 2022
When I was clerking in Louisiana after graduating law school, there was story of a rather notorious local judge asking counsel in a criminal case if he was ready to present the case of the defendant. That law has been treated as dormant given the 1973 decision in Roe v. According to The Detroit News , Gleicher issued a statement that.
JonathanTurley
OCTOBER 25, 2021
The problem is that the courts already recognize some religious exemption arguments. Those arguments are based on both the constitutional protection of religious values but also laws like Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, 42 U.S.C. There is a move in many states to refuse to allow such exemptions, but courts have pushed back.
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JonathanTurley
MARCH 17, 2021
The litigation over the 2020 election seem to be continuing with a ruling this week from Michigan Court of Claims Chief Judge Christopher Murray that Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson (D) broke state law in issuing new rules on absentee balloting before the 2020 election. Here is the opinion: Genetski v. Benson, No.
JonathanTurley
JUNE 8, 2021
In a letter, the court found a basis for a temporary injunction to allow Cross to return until Dec. 31 pending further orders of the court. Accordingly, “[T]he Court has found … that the disruption relied upon was insufficient.” Cross ran into trouble when he appeared at a meeting of the school board.
JonathanTurley
JULY 18, 2022
Below is my column in the Hill on how the next round of post-Roe litigation is coming into sharper focus. Here is the column: Throughout its history, the Supreme Court has overturned long-standing precedents, as it did recently in Dobbs v. Yet Biden’s and Becerra’s words already are being cited in the litigation by the challengers.
JonathanTurley
DECEMBER 21, 2020
Featured prominently on the law school’s website , the article pushes a similar proposal made in the Washington Post in 2015 by Theodore Johnson, a senior fellow at the Brennan Center for Justice. Ironically, the proposals would upend decades of civil rights litigation to defend the “one man, one vote” principle.
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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