JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 12, 2021

I have repeatedly testified and written on the constitutional barriers to such a vote absent statehood. See Jonathan Turley, Too Clever By Half: The Partial Representation of the District of Columbia in the House of Representatives , 76 George Washington University Law Review 305 -374 (2008). I was delighted when he accepted.

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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

MARCH 20, 2021

We recently discussed the case of University of North Carolina law student Sagar Sharma, a student of color, who faced a recall election as the first-year class co-president. The charges are connected to the prior controversy and raise serious free speech and retaliatory concerns at the law school. .

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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

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. 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. Under RFRA, there is no “Come on, man,” defense.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 3, 2023

In other countries, this crackdown on comedy is being enforced by the state through criminal and human rights laws. Comedians are being prosecuted under hate-speech laws in various countries that criminalize mocking any group or identity. In Brazil, comedian Danilo Gentili was prosecuted for implying a politician was a prostitute.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

So the dean of one of the premier journalism schools now supports censorship.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. CUNY Law Dean Mary Lu Bilek showed how far this trend has gone.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 11, 2023

While the Administration insists that it complied with a law that required Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra to make the reappointments personally, it later issued a retroactive reappointment for most of the directors after months of congressional inquiry. That, too, is not allowed under federal law.

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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

million were sent to a law firm and another firm associated with Hunter Biden. ” (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.) I am sitting here waiting for the call with my father.’”

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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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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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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. David Beckwith (Oct. 30, 1942 – Oct.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 31, 2022

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) this week opposed a model law being introduced in over a dozen states. The ACLU historically opposed laws that denied free speech and other rights under the Constitution, a legacy that I have long cherished and supported. This brings us back to the model law.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 9, 2023

First, let’s look at the law. 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.”

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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

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

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. Musk may have to yield to such domestic laws, but he can use his platform to inform citizens of those countries they are being censored and controlled in what they are allowed to read.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 30, 2021

6th riots, he has proposed a new law that would legislate an even greater level of censorship to prevent the “social media amplification” of views that are deemed harmful or “disinformation.” The First Amendment is premised on the belief that this right is essential to protecting the other freedoms in the Constitution.

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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

JANUARY 27, 2022

To quote Ginsburg, with three justices previously voting against such race-based criteria and the three Trump appointees, “that’s about as solid as you can get” for a major reframing of the controlling case law. Bollinger , the Court divided 5-4 on upholding admissions criteria used to achieve “diversity” in a class at Michigan Law School.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 12, 2022

In a series of tweets this week, Professor Heidi Li Feldman has denounced “lawless” and “actively rogue” Supreme Court justices and professors who disagree with her views on the Constitution. She has called for “genuine” law professors not to fall “into complicity with lawlessness” in teaching such subjects.

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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

AUGUST 25, 2022

The problem is that many on the left have turned their ire on the Constitution itself as the root of all evil in our country. In a New York Times essay , law professors Ryan D. 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.”

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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. In the end, though, a large part of the story turned on the question of just what it was that enabled Harlan to see the law so differently from his peers.

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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

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

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

In what could be called Zuckerberg’s “He Who Must Not Be Heard” standard, Facebook blocked an interview of Trump with his daughter-in-law Lara Trump. Thus, if Trump whispered his answers to his daughter-in-law, she could say the words. The company declared that it would censor any content “in the voice of Donald Trump.”

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Brandon Hasbrouck is an assistant professor at Washington and Lee University School of Law, has written an article in The Nation calling for a new form of reparations based on voting. The Electoral College was designed as part of a republican model of government. Indeed, it would change the entire form of our government.

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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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