Constitutional Law Felony Laws Ohio 
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. The new law, H.B. It is a major win for pro-life advocates but could face an appeal to the Supreme Court.
JonathanTurley
NOVEMBER 22, 2022
City of Pharm in which an Ohio man was prosecuted for posting a parody of his local police department. Some of us have been following the Novak case as an important free speech case after Anthony Novak was prosecuted for a parody on Facebook to mock the police department in Parma, Ohio. Image from Supreme Court Petition.
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JonathanTurley
NOVEMBER 28, 2022
He was charged with (and later acquitted of) a felony under an Ohio law prohibiting the use of a computer to “disrupt” or “interrupt” police functions. Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University. Follow him on Twitter @JonathanTurley.
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.
JonathanTurley
FEBRUARY 8, 2021
Others claimed Trump committed “felony bribery” by fundraising for Republican senators when he was about to be impeached. Richard Ashby Wilson, associate law school dean at the University of Connecticut, said “Trump crossed the Rubicon and incited a mob to attack the U.S. That simply is not true. The problem is free speech.
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. While it was gleefully presented by papers like the Washington Post, it ignored case law that rejected precisely this type of limitless definition of the offense.
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 included what Tribe suggested was a clear case of attempted murder of former Vice President Pence. At 4:17 p.m., In Brandenburg v.
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