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APRIL 10, 2021

The bipartisan panel members represent expertise in “constitutional law, history and political science.” In a speech on Tuesday at Harvard Law School, Breyer argued that the public’s trust in the legitimacy of the Court is based on the idea “that the Court is guided by legal principle, not politics.”

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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

Like the last meeting , various legal experts testified and answered questions from commissioners in a series of panels spread throughout the day. 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.

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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

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

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

JUNE 9, 2023

.” The problem, however, is that this is just like the transport of migrants to Martha’s Vineyard in September 2022, which a number of Democratic leaders and legal experts insisted was also a clear case of kidnapping and human trafficking. state once they are released by the federal government.

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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. In 2007, that victory seemed decisive.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 9, 2022

As discussed below, there could be legal as well as political ramifications as the House moves forward with the long-delayed investigation of these social media companies. It is still early to determine possible legal implications of these files, but there are some areas likely to be of immediate concern for counsel.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 30, 2021

” For years, social companies have claimed protection from any legal consequences of their actions relating to content on their websites by hiding behind Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. 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

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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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 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

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Various members and legal experts have claimed that the case for prosecution is clear on its face. The disconnect between legal analysis and legal reality matters little in today’s media. Nevertheless, experts have lined up to argue now that there are no free-speech or legal barriers to prosecuting Trump for incitement.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 9, 2024

Liberals are again stating that the Supreme Court is not fundamentally “broken” because a majority of justices do not share their views on legal questions. Either that, or submit to being governed for another 30, 40, or 50 years by unelected partisans in robes. Such voices are common at Georgetown and other law schools.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 17, 2023

Even after the Mueller investigation found insufficient evidence of collusion between the Russian government and the Trump campaign, Rep. It exposes the origin of the collusion effort in the Clinton campaign, which hid its funding in legal fees. The Durham report is everything that the FBI investigation was not.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

” For years, the administration and many Democrats in Congress have resisted every effort to expose the sprawling government censorship program that one federal judge described as an “Orwellian ‘Ministry of Truth.'”

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 10, 2023

has even doggedly maintained that the laptop may really be Russian disinformation, despite confirmation of its content by witnesses, government investigators, and several media organizations. It won’t work. Biden clearly lied when he denied knowledge of his son’s business operations, and he has continued to lie during his presidency.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 27, 2020

In the case of the disastrous press conference by the Trump legal team, I was highly critical of conspiracy theories laid out by Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell without support. However, there are many such controversies with a mixed of legal, political, and technical elements.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 17, 2023

Legal analysts often are asked to give the percentages on a case’s outcome or conviction. While the government has the advantage in this federal indictment , there are challenges being planned to attack the use of the Espionage Act, the use of statements made by Trump to his former counsel, and other issues. That is not necessary.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 20, 2023

These orders come at a great cost — limiting both parties and counsels in raising objections to alleged abuses of the government. Smith has long adopted extreme legal positions that ignore constitutional values. Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at the George Washington University Law School.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 15, 2023

The Trump indictment details alleged efforts to conceal documents, obstruct the investigation and lie to the government. 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 14, 2023

It is a dangerous erosion of separation between the White House and the president’s personal legal team. The American public should not harbor such doubts over corruption at the highest levels of our government. Indeed, it is that very clarity that many in Washington may fear the most from this inquiry.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

It is the “why not” approach to criminal and constitutional law. This is one of the most dangerous legal theories to arise in decades. Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at the George Washington University Law School. Jonathan Turley is the J.B. and Maurice C.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Thus, the argument goes, even though he was the subject of the influence peddling, Joe Biden did not legally or constitutionally benefit from the payments to constitute bribery or other crimes. It fought for free speech and good government. That is utter nonsense. There were principles that came before personalities.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 20, 2023

Today’s legal-political sequel, however, may prove to be a bit more controversial. 6 allegations are far more tenuous legally. Such an indictment could come at a high legal and political cost. That speech is entirely protected under the First Amendment and governing case law, including Brandenburg v. is obvious.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Legally, there are both individuals and institutions that could see significant changes with the new division of power in Washington. Once again, voters preferred divided government with a Congress willing and able to challenge a president rather than remain a pure pedestrian in the exercise of governance.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 12, 2023

I began my association with the House as a teenaged leadership page in the 1970s and continued through to my legal representation of the House in federal court. I have testified more than 100 times over the last four decades on a wide array of constitutional and statutory issues. The vote did not invite terrorism — it invited chaos.

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