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Racial Gerrymandering Takes Center Stage as Court Considers Three Cases

Constitutional Law Reporter

The issues before the Court included choice-of-law clauses, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act’s whistleblower protection, and racial gerrymandering. 310 (1955), the Supreme Court established that “maritime contracts are governed by federal admiralty law when there is an established federal rule, but absent such a rule, state law applies.”

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Biden’s Blind Spot: “Our Constitutional Principles” Include State Rights Over Elections

JonathanTurley

Here is the column: As the fight over election reform heats up in Congress, the White House is ramping up the rhetoric, declaring that President Biden and Vice President Harris are “incensed by the anti-voter laws that are trampling on our constitutional principles.” You cannot protect one by negating the other. In McPherson v.

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MSNBC Analyst Calls for Liability for Boebert and Carlson … for the Colorado Shootings

JonathanTurley

For the record, I am a legal analyst for Fox News, though I have spent my entire academic and professional career opposing criminal and civil efforts to punish or chill free speech. Black churches feeling like they are going to get shot up, like at a Bible study that’s happened in South Carolina.

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Crimson Tide: A New Study Shows the Continued Decline of Free Speech on Campuses

JonathanTurley

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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“A Sad Day”: How the Colorado Disqualification Case is Bringing Back Some Bad Memories for the Supreme Court

JonathanTurley

justices as being, in the words of law professor Cass Sunstein, “ illegitimate, undemocratic, and unprincipled.” Appeals of ballot decisions are pending in Arizona; ballot challenges are in process in Alaska, Maine , New York, New Jersey, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, South Carolina, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia and Wyoming.

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Confirmation Bias: The Fighting Has Already Begun and Biden Hasn’t Even Named a Nominee

JonathanTurley

Hawaii) has made controversial comments over her desire to have the next nominee rely not just on the law but the nominee’s life experiences to reach the right result in court cases. during a break in the debate ; Clyburn then gave Biden his critical endorsement before the key South Carolina primary. Susan Collins (R.,

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Shouting Fire In A Crowded Congress: How The Rhetoric Has Outstripped The Reality In Today’s Electoral Challenge

JonathanTurley

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.