JonathanTurley

MAY 31, 2023

Below is my column in The Messenger on the passing of one of the greatest figures in human rights law, my former colleague Tom Buergenthal. Tom will be laid to rest this afternoon in Florida. Tom would make it with his mother to the United States and ultimately studied law, with a J.D. I think of the number 3930.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Florida Gov. I have previously written how Hamas is morally and legally a terrorist organization. Nevertheless, Rodrigues declared “it is a felony under Florida law to ‘knowingly provide material support … to a designated foreign terrorist organization.’” Students for Justice in Palestine has been on U.S.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Below is my column in The Hill on the recent bills proposed in Florida and California on immigration and guns. The bills are the latest examples of “gotcha legislation,” though the Florida bill could raise some interesting legal questions if Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) and Florida Gov. Newsom’s gun ‘heartbeat’ law.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 9, 2023

It is a curious call for a governor to make after he ran ads in Florida calling on people to “join us in California.” California Attorney General Rob Bonta (D) chimed in, declaring the flight from Florida might be “ State-sanctioned kidnapping.” First, let’s look at the law. Gavin Newsom (D.,

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 14, 2024

In Florida, U.S. District Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle has ruled that the federal law prohibiting people from possessing firearms inside post offices is unconstitutional. ” Judge Mizelle noted that the law stands in conflict with the Bruen decision. That is all. No citation, no authority, no reasoning.”

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 31, 2022

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. In 1973, Beckwith was a recent graduate of law school and was working as a political reporter for TIME magazine. Read past years’ remembrances: 2021 , 2020.

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LegalTalkNetwork

OCTOBER 7, 2020

18 death of legal trailblazer Ruth Bader Ginsburg is the topic of conversation in two of this week’s top podcast picks. Craig Williams interviews constitutional law Prof. District Judge Amy Coney Barrett, a Notre Dame law professor and former clerk to Justice Antonin Scalia, to fill the vacancy. . by Molly McDonough.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

I will be doing the coverage tonight on the election for Fox News and election day has already gotten off to a lively start in terms of legal conflicts. Now Florida Gov. The list included Broward, Miami-Dade and Palm Beach counties in Florida. The list included Broward, Miami-Dade and Palm Beach counties in Florida.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 14, 2021

Here is what I precisely wrote on the Blount and Belknap impeachment in The Executive Function Theory, The Hamilton Affair, And Other Constitutional Mythologies , 77 North Carolina Law Review 1791 (1999): 1. The impeachment of Senator William Blount of Tennessee may have been the most interesting both factually and legally.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

.” The filing is a Jackson Pollock of legal claims with twelve claims thrown against Florida from false imprisonment to intentional infliction of emotional distress to misuse of the Coronavirus State Fiscal Recovery Fund. The complaint is stronger on rhetoric than supporting facts or law. which was completely false.”

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 2, 2021

But this stage could face legal challenges in coming weeks, as citizens and some states push back on mandates. Unwilling to face the legal or political challenges of mandating a vaccination program, the Biden administration has actively encouraged companies to bar unvaccinated people from planes, restaurants and other venues.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 30, 2023

They involve challenging questions over the scope of not just laws like the Hatch Act but the duties of federal officials like Meadows. The trial courts will have to render decisions on major constitutional challenges, including free-speech claims, before trial. That could place those cases on a different trajectory for months.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 9, 2022

Biden admitted that his White House counsel and their preferred legal experts told him that the move was likely unconstitutional. Despite the pledge to return to a respect for the “rule of law,” Biden openly suggested that they could use the litigation to get as much money out the door as possible before being barred by the courts.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 4, 2021

Florida , 421 U.S. 794, 799 (1975)(“constitutional standard of fairness requires that the criminally accused have ‘a panel of impartial, indifferent jurors.’”). Dowd , 366 U.S. 717, 722 (1961), the Supreme Court stated “the minimal standards of due process” demand a fair hearing before competent and impartial jurors. Tegzes , 715 F.2d

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 7, 2022

Proponents of the theory, known as the “independent state legislature” theory, believe that the Constitution gives state legislatures nearly unfettered authority to write the rules for federal elections, with little or no oversight from state courts. The North Carolina case. The North Carolina dispute, Moore v.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Above the Law senior editor Joe Patrice defended “predominantly liberal faculties” in a column arguing that hiring a conservative academic was akin to allowing a believer in geocentrism — that the sun orbits the earth — to teach at a university. Public universities must protect free speech as a matter of law.

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Legal Research is Easy

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

While everyone was eyeing Florida (29), Pennsylvania (20), Texas (38), and California (55), no one paid attention to the small states (to their detriment). In fact, the smallest states held 97 Electoral College votes. That's 18% of the total, people. Yep, it's the little guys that'll get you in the end.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Below is my column in USA Today on the “deactivation order” issued to a controversial pro-Palestinian group at the University of Florida. The issuance of a deactivation order last month in Florida sounded like it involved a routine decision by the utility to cut off service because of an overdue bill. Here is the column.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 11, 2023

Regarding Mar-a-Lago, the reported inclusion of a charge under the Espionage Act is a bit surprising, given the novel legal issues surrounding the handling of such documents. One of the early issues for the court in Florida will be whether to gag the former president from campaigning on this matter.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 3, 2024

Bush, criticizing the Florida Supreme Court’s decision during the 2000 election. Supreme Court, when it stopped the recount ordered by the four Florida justices and effectively called the election for Bush. justices as being, in the words of law professor Cass Sunstein, “ illegitimate, undemocratic, and unprincipled.”

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 19, 2021

There was a great deal of criticism of President Joe Biden’s press conference from his refusal to take questions on the Afghanistan situation to his calling for the use of Civil Rights laws to oppose any state laws barring mask mandates. Legally, the President just pledged to indemnify the violation of state law.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 8, 2024

Florida called its Democratic primary for Biden and blocked opposing candidates, despite two-thirds of Democrats wanting an alternative to Biden. For example, the Biden administration was found to have violated the Constitution in its imposition of a nationwide eviction moratorium through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 27, 2021

While most Administrations tend to minimize such test cases to avoid creating bad precedent, the Biden Administration has litigated with an utter abandon — elevating political over legal considerations in litigation. The latest is one of the most disturbing. It is a lawless attitude that becoming a signature for this Administration.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 21, 2021

What is notable is that such losses in the early days of the Trump Administration led to coverage declaring a war on the “rule of law” and even indications of authoritarianism. Yet, many previously outspoken legal experts have either blamed conservative judges or simply ignored the losses all together.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 7, 2023

In the wake of the second indictment of Donald Trump, many law professors have offered good-faith rationales for why the four counts do not violate the First Amendment. When the indictment was filed, I felt it was strong on the evidence and the law. Elections are about counting votes. He also had a right to seek vote recounts.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 20, 2023

Today’s legal-political sequel, however, may prove to be a bit more controversial. Many people were surprised by the news, since Smith already is pursuing criminal charges in Florida on the mishandling of classified documents and the likely Jan. 6 allegations are far more tenuous legally. is obvious. Indeed, the House Jan.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 20, 2021

The case involved the use of a prostitute, a hidden camera, and an effort to intimidate his own brother-in-law but sending the film to his own sister. 45-caliber handgun while flying to Florida on a private jet in 2019 as well as an array of drugs. Most presidents would have burned Kushner’s petition in a profilactic act of cleansing.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 6, 2021

Here is the column: It is a touchstone of American constitutional law that nothing protects your right to shout “fire!” It is the use of a federal law to raise a challenge that has been raised in past elections over important issues of voter fraud or irregularity. Academics have debated this poorly drafted law for decades.

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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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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 12, 2024

The pitch would be more compelling if Democratic activists were not trying to remove Trump from 2024 ballots and Democratic leaders in Florida, North Carolina and other states are refusing to allow other candidates to run against Biden in the primary. In those states, the primary ballots themselves might not be very democratic.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 25, 2021

Here is the column: There are times when being a law professor ruins everything. Yet the true president at that moment was in Florida: Donald Trump legally would remain in office for ten more minutes, under the 20th Amendment. It will be a fun bit of trivia for constitutional law geeks, but it was also telling.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

With the adverse ruling in Pennsylvania, the Trump legal team is still pledging new evidence of massive fraud as certifications are completed. The options for the team seem more and more reduced to the ultimate constitutional trick shot in engineering a fight on the floor of Congress. The electoral ‘reactor’.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 4, 2023

This week, the Executive Committee of the Florida Democratic Democracy told voters that they would not be allowed to vote against Biden. Under Florida law, if the party approves only one name, there will be no primary ballots at all. I have long criticized this theory as legally and historically unfounded.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 18, 2023

As I myself covered the indictment as a legal analyst for Fox, I once again felt a certain longing for the abandon shown by some of my counterparts who dismissed any concern over what are now roughly 100 criminal charges against former President Donald Trump in four different indictments.

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