JonathanTurley

MARCH 15, 2022

and the Project on Government Oversight. Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law. The George Washington University Law School. Anne Weismann. Outside Counsel for Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington. Jonathan Turley. and Maurice C. Turley.Testimony.Senate Homeland.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 12, 2021

One of the briefs written in support of the district in the recent litigation was from constitutional scholars, including my colleague Alan B. Morrison, Lerner Family Associate Dean at George Washington Law School. I reached out to Professor Morrison to see if he would offer a response on the ruling and the underlying issues.

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Above The Law

AUGUST 9, 2021

Kavanaugh's concurrence is not precedent and it's bad for the country to pretend it was.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 20, 2021

The charges are connected to the prior controversy and raise serious free speech and retaliatory concerns at the law school. . Sharma was targeted at UNC Law School because he would not agree that a recent exchange between law students involved a racial insult. First is SBA By-Law 11.2

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 24, 2023

In Wisconsin, for example, a federal court stopped Biden’s controversial $4 billion race-based federal relief program for farmers, holding that white farmers were found to be “experiencing discrimination at the hands of their government.” Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at the George Washington University Law School.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 25, 2021

The comments reflect a growing call for states and the federal government to reject any religious exemptions for vaccination. Instead, the federal government must show that the burden imposed furthers a “compelling governmental interest” and is “the least restrictive means” of furthering that interest.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 3, 2023

That is why we prefer to have comedies written by people like Cleese as opposed to government functionaries. Jonathan Turley, an attorney, constitutional law scholar and legal analyst, is the Shapiro Chair for Public Interest Law at The George Washington University Law School.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Columbia Journalism School Dean Steve Coll has denounced the “weaponization” of free speech , which appears to be the use of free speech by those on the right. A prior poll shows roughly half of the public supporting not just corporate censorship but government censorship of anything deemed “misinformation.”

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JonathanTurley

JULY 11, 2023

It also is clear that the House committee can now demand — and, if necessary, compel — answers from Becerra on whether federal law was knowingly flaunted and whether Congress was actively misled. Fauci, now retired from the federal government, is a professor at Georgetown University and collecting $350,000 per year in government pensions.

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JURIST

APRIL 10, 2021

Under the executive order, membership of the commission is to be “constitutional scholars, retired members of the Federal judiciary, or other individuals having experience with and knowledge of” the Supreme Court and the US judicial system. The vast majority of the 36 members are law professors and scholars.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 27, 2023

” (He did not explain why a message legally acquired by the government from the cloud account of his client would be illegal to include in the report of a congressional investigatory committee.) His lawyer, Chris Clark, first insisted that the release of the messages “are not only irresponsible, they are illegal.”

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 21, 2021

The key topics included the confirmation process, term limits, transparency and disclosure, expanding the size of the court, and the court’s role in a constitutional government. President Joe Biden appointed the 36-member commission to write a report on various court-reform options. Other potential timeframes include 12 or 16 years.

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Above The Law

AUGUST 14, 2023

Constitutional law expert' Jonathan Turley forgets how the Constitution schedules elections in his latest Trump criminal case analysis. The post Jonathan Turley Still Can’t Figure Out Calendar, Constitution appeared first on Above the Law.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 31, 2022

In 1973, Beckwith was a recent graduate of law school and was working as a political reporter for TIME magazine. During an illustrious career as a constitutional law scholar and a top Supreme Court advocate, Walter Dellinger argued 24 times before the court, including in some of the biggest cases of the past 30 years.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

The Democrats this week appear to have taken up the same cudgel in labeling opponents and critics Russian sympathizers and fellow travelers in opposing government involvement in a massive censorship system. The files show dozens of FBI and government employees actively seeking the censorship of citizens and others for their viewpoints.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 28, 2021

We recently discussed the controversy at Rutgers Law School over the reading of the “n-word” from a state supreme court opinion. The requirement (for any group receiving more than $250) presents some interesting questions in the conflict between free speech and diversity programs at such schools.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 8, 2023

378, 387 (1987), the Court declared that a government employee was protected in expressing a highly offensive statement about the attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan. The panel decision runs against the grain of various prior decisions of the Supreme Court. For example, in Rankin v. McPherson , 483 U.S. as “very conservative.”

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 31, 2022

I understand the the impetus of this law was opposition to racially divisive materials, including Critical Race Theory (CRT) material. The laws passed in states l ike Pennsylvania are not CRT prohibitions but required posting of teaching materials, syllabi, and scholastic achievement scores online.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 9, 2023

The California provision states that kidnapping involves someone who “abducts or takes by force or fraud any person contrary to the law of the place where that act is committed, and brings, sends, or conveys that person within the limits of this state.” state once they are released by the federal government.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 13, 2022

Tisch Professor of Law, New York University Law School, and a senior lecturer at the University of Chicago. Regrettably, too many First Amendment experts, like George Washington Law School Professor Jonathan Turley , have adopted what I termed a generation ago First Amendment exceptionalism.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Lincoln Caplan is a senior research scholar and a visiting lecturer in law at Yale Law School and also teaches in Yale’s English and political science departments. Professors at the event reflected on opinions about administrative law, free speech, patents, and other topics.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 30, 2022

Clinton has called on foreign governments to step in and pass laws that would force Twitter to continue to censor opposing views. There are also allegations of back-channel communications from the government to manage a type of censorship-by-surrogate system to evade the First Amendment.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Some of us have been raising concerns over Twitter’s massive censorship system for years, including what I called the emergence of a “ shadow state ” where corporations carry out censorship the Constitution bars the government from doing. Jonathan Turley is an attorney and professor at George Washington University Law School.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Free speech advocates are facing a generational shift that is now being reflected in our law schools, where free speech principles were once a touchstone of the rule of law. The First Amendment is premised on the belief that this right is essential to protecting the other freedoms in the Constitution. It is working.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 27, 2022

Bollinger , the Court divided 5-4 on upholding admissions criteria used to achieve “diversity” in a class at Michigan Law School. The two new cases could not be better suited for a major reframing of the law governing college admissions. In 2003 in Grutter v.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 15, 2023

Democratic leaders actively promote censorship on social media and vehemently defend government efforts to target citizens or groups. confirmed Kelly suggested “that government should work with social media companies to censor information that could lead to a run on banks.” Thomas Massie (R-Ky.)

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JonathanTurley

JULY 12, 2022

She has called for “genuine” law professors not to fall “into complicity with lawlessness” in teaching such subjects. It is the latest voice of intolerance and orthodoxy at a leading law school. In the age of rage, calls for radical action from both professors and students have been particularly amplified at Georgetown University.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 25, 2022

The New York Times column called for citizens to view the Constitution as the real enemy and to push to “radically alter the basic rules of the game.” The attack on our Constitution has become something of an article of faith for the far left in recent years. The Constitution has long been the very thing that defined us.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 13, 2022

He was prescient in recognizing the need for a strong national government to deal with urgent issues, such as civil rights. He is also a graduate of Columbia Law School. He felt that people who came to America needed to commit themselves to the hard work of self-government. Instead, Lincoln put Kentucky under martial law.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 6, 2022

Georgetown University Law School Professor Rosa Brooks has drawn accolades and criticism for her appearance on MSNBC’s “The ReidOut” after declaring that Americans are “slaves” to the U.S. Constitution and that the Constitution itself is now the problem for the country. This is 100% us.”

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JonathanTurley

JULY 8, 2021

This trend has reached law schools, which is ominous since these students are the future judges and lawyers who are expected to defend these core principles. From high schools through law schools, free speech has gone from being considered a right that defines our society to being dismissed as a threat.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 30, 2023

In one federal case alone, the government has 11 million pages of evidence that will have to be shown to the defense team. Jonathan Turley, an attorney, constitutional law scholar and legal analyst, is the Shapiro Chair for Public Interest Law at The George Washington University Law School.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 6, 2023

Every authoritarian government in history has justified censoring citizens because their views are harmful or false. Judge Doughty found that the two states “are likely to succeed on the merits in establishing that the government has used its power to silence the opposition.” Doughty was previously rebuked by the U.S.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 5, 2021

Indeed, the Atlantic published an article by Harvard Law School professor Jack Goldsmith and University of Arizona law professor Andrew Keane Woods calling for Chinese style censorship of the internet. Facebook has been accused of censoring the views of Sikhs raising genocide concerns.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 20, 2021

We recently discussed the rise of a generation of censors as young people embrace the role of government and corporate censorship. ” The shift is almost entirely among Democrats who ( like Democratic leaders ) now overwhelming favor fewer free speech protections and more government control over speech. .”

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 9, 2024

And to do so, they ought to draw on the robust and inventive debate that is brewing among scholars in law schools, think tanks, and advocacy organizations over how to fix the Court. Either that, or submit to being governed for another 30, 40, or 50 years by unelected partisans in robes.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

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. Said CNN legal analyst Elie Honig: “As a prosecutor I’d gladly show a jury Trump’s own inflammatory statements and argue they cross the line to criminality.”

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