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TikTok Torts: Idaho Professor Sues “Internet Sleuth” for Defamation Over Idaho Murders

JonathanTurley

There is an interesting defamation case out of Idaho in which Rebecca Scofield , an associate professor and the chair of the history department at the University of Idaho, is suing TikTok personality Ashley Guillard for defamation. That was the case with the litigation over the false claims made against former Rep. In Wilkow v.

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Federal Court Asked to Address 14th Amendment Effort to Bar Trump

JonathanTurley

Yet, what was most notable was this paragraph in the filing on the motives and means used by Castro: “Plaintiff John Anthony Castro filed this lawsuit as part of a multi-state litigation effort that he dubs “Operation Deadlock.” Katherine Fung, Donald Trump’s Lawyers Get Stretched Even Thinner, NEWSWEEK (Sept. Henderson, No.

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The Argument in Carson v. Makin Unexpectedly Turns To Critical Race Theory

JonathanTurley

Almost a dozen states (including Idaho, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, Arizona, and North Dakota) have passed legislation to bar CRT and roughly a dozen more are considering such legislation. A coalition of educators and public interest groups has sued states like Oklahoma over such laws. 20-1088.