JonathanTurley

JULY 5, 2021

Below is my column in the Hill on a series of cases that appear propelled by political rather than legal considerations. The costs to the legal system, the public, or victims in such cases are often overlooked but they are considerable. Nor is he alone in pursuing a case driven more by political than legal considerations.

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JURIST

JANUARY 18, 2021

It is typically conducted by the Bar Council twice a year to test the candidates’ knowledge on various substantive and procedural la w such as constitutional law, administrative law, the Indian Penal Code, criminal and civil procedure, evidence, public interest litigation, and professional ethics.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

APRIL 4, 2022

North Carolina State Conference of the NAACP : The case involves a legal challenge to North Carolina’s voter-identification law, specifically whether two Republican members of the North Carolina legislature should be able to intervene in the suit. Sundance, Inc.: 1782 , which allow a U.S. Please check back for updates.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

MARCH 21, 2022

Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit erred in denying the Kentucky attorney general’s motion to intervene on the commonwealth’s behalf in litigation concerning Kentucky House Bill 454, the state’s controversial abortion law. Although the litigation by that time had proceeded for years, that factor is not dispositive.

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DECEMBER 9, 2022

With this being the case, we focus on a variety of paralegal, legal assistant, and administrative assistant legal positions in our home country. Law Clerk – This term is commonly used in Ontario and denotes someone who does a mix of administrative and substantive tasks, but is usually less substantive than that of a paralegal.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

I recently wrote a column on the legal challenges to President Joe Biden’s vaccine mandate issued through OSHA. Biden admitted that his White House counsel and their preferred legal experts told him that the move was likely unconstitutional. Here is the opinion: BST Holdings v.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

MARCH 29, 2022

The court unanimously held that Section 1806(f) of FISA — providing a procedure under which a trial-level court or other authority may consider the legality of electronic surveillance conducted under FISA and order specified forms of relief — does not displace the state secrets privilege. Facts of the Case.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

MARCH 5, 2024

The States have asked the justices to stay implementation while litigation continues in the lower courts. The post Supreme Court Hears Challenge to EPA’s Good Neighbor Rule appeared first on Constitutional Law Reporter. The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals denied the motions to stay and the States appealed to the Supreme Court.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 29, 2023

The court dismissed the “tawdry tales” offered by the DOJ and declared that it was far more concerned with the damage that Smith was causing to the legal system with his virtually limitless interpretation of criminality. The case involved the prosecution of former governor Bob McDonnell (R-Va.),

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 19, 2023

As a legal analyst on Fox News, I have largely refrained from writing about the case. Many of us who teach in the areas of tort and constitutional law were uneasy over the impact of a verdict in light of the Supreme Court’s landmark decision in New York Times v. That was roughly half of the $1.6

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 5, 2024

It is a cynical effort to impose litigation costs on companies to get them to refuse to accept such contracts. Such inquiries would themselves violated legal and constitutional protections. Yet, how is a company supposed to determine if someone purchasing a ticket is a potential “public charge.”

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 7, 2024

Nevertheless, I have serious objections to the scope of these gag orders on free speech grounds, particularly before an election that could turn in large part on allegations of the weaponization of the legal system.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 31, 2021

Three University of Florida political science professors have told a federal court that the university barred them from assisting plaintiffs in a challenge to the state’s new voting laws. As state employees, they were told that litigating against a state law would be “adverse to U.F.’s ’s interests.”

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 3, 2024

It would then depend on the Maine litigation to bring the matter back to the Court. Here is the column: It is “a sad day for America and the Constitution when a court decides the outcome of an election.” At the time, another rising star in Republican legal circles was getting her start as a young law firm associate.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 12, 2021

Gavin Newsom thrilled many this weekend by saying that his administration will model a new law on Texas’ abortion ban that would let private citizens sue anyone who makes or sells assault weapons or ghost guns. Legally, that is. It will be hugely successful politically, but not without costs to the state and potential litigants.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 4, 2021

President Biden acknowledged that his legal experts overwhelmingly told him that any extension would violate the Constitution. The President said the quiet part out loud and admitted that they would use litigation as a delaying tactic to spend money without constitutional authority.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

JANUARY 10, 2022

Jackson that abortion providers may bring a pre-enforcement challenge in federal court as one means to test whether Texas’ s strict abortion law violates the U.S. Constitution, albeit only against certain state medical licensing officials. The justices also ruled that the law (S.B. Facts of the Case.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 18, 2022

Below is my column in the Hill on how the next round of post-Roe litigation is coming into sharper focus. Such changes are like the shifting of tectonic plates, triggering earthquakes and volcanic eruptions in the legal lithosphere. Yet Biden’s and Becerra’s words already are being cited in the litigation by the challengers.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2023

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

That statement was then walked back due to the lack of legal authority to issue such a mandate. It is again politics driving litigation by the Justice Department. However, the real question is why the Administration would bring a case that is unnecessary to litigate a theory that is at best novel and untested.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 9, 2022

Biden admitted that his White House counsel and their preferred legal experts told him that the move was likely unconstitutional. Despite the pledge to return to a respect for the “rule of law,” Biden openly suggested that they could use the litigation to get as much money out the door as possible before being barred by the courts.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Through more than two years of litigation, the Secretary of Kentucky’s Cabinet for Health and Family Services led the state’s legal defense of its law prohibiting abortions in which an unborn child is dismembered while still alive. EMW Women’s Surgical Center, P.S.C.:

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 7, 2022

Alito described the independent-state-legislature theory as “an exceptionally important and recurring question of constitutional law,” and he suggested that the justices “will have to resolve this question sooner or later, and the sooner we do so, the better.”

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Constitutional Law Reporter

MARCH 10, 2022

City and County of San Francisco, California : The case revolves around a legal challenge to a federal immigration rule. Litigation about the Rule ensued, and the Supreme Court granted review of the Second Circuit’s opinion. Cabazon Band of Mission Indians , 480 U.S. Under the Immigration and Nationality Act ( 8 U.S.C.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

The undocumented migrants who were transferred to Martha’s Vineyard have quickly adopted one common American practice: litigation. The splattering of a claims face considerable legal barriers based on the consent of the migrants, as shown in a waiver released by Florida. Here is the complaint: Alianza-Americas v. DeSantis.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 30, 2022

In the messy litigation that followed, the demand was eventually dropped. ” This potential conflict represents the very core of privilege in a close aide giving confidential legal advice to a sitting president. In litigation, counsel for Congress tend to follow the Hippocratic Oath that “first do no harm.”

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

While legal experts pushed the department to challenge the entire order, the Department is seeking a smaller target. In litigation the rule is the same as in hunting: “aim small, miss small.” The filing seems intended to not just secure a victory before that release but also to abandon its prior sweeping legal claims.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 14, 2024

” Judge Mizelle noted that the law stands in conflict with the Bruen decision. It also noted that the sweeping meaning of this provision: [The] legal principle cannot be used to abridge the right to bear arms by regulating it into practical non-existence.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 21, 2022

Second, Thompson asserted, there is “no basis in this case for a federal court to second-guess a state’s decision that it needs a representative exclusively focused on vindicating state law.”. The attorney general is defending the law and arguing that it is constitutional.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Former President Donald Trump is threatening litigation over the decision of President Joe Biden not to invoke executive privilege over the release of Trump records to a special committee of Congress looking into the Jan. Moreover, with objections from Trump, there are statutory periods triggered under the law that will delay such work.

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LexForti

JULY 26, 2021

The scheme must be seen as one in which Constitution envisages in responsible citizens and in that sense the fundamental duties shall be performed and seen as an educative role. The Court found their expulsion in violation of both Articles 19 and 25 of the Constitution. Union of India. Background. Conclusion. 392-395 M.P. Web sources.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 1, 2023

The challengers noted that the same outfit prohibited for drag performers under the law would be entirely legal for cheerleaders or other women in public events. Judge Parker was correct to enjoin the law pending further review. The vagueness problems could be reduced by limiting the scope to adult entertainment settings.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 19, 2024

The rejection of the challenge to the injunction suggests that the appellate court is equally unimpressed by the legal and historical arguments put forward by the state. The New Mexico litigation follows a pattern of blue states creating bad precedent in ill-considered cases. However, their legal losses met with political success.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

With the adverse ruling in Pennsylvania, the Trump legal team is still pledging new evidence of massive fraud as certifications are completed. The options for the team seem more and more reduced to the ultimate constitutional trick shot in engineering a fight on the floor of Congress. The electoral ‘shaft’. In Bush v. 8 or beyond Dec.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Most concerning is the litigation of legal claims that most legal experts viewed as unsustainable given recent Supreme Court precedent. We have been discussing a growing list of losses of the Biden Administration in court, a record that began soon after inauguration. They lost as many of us predicted.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 12, 2020

It is working within our constitutional system for a legal opinion on the merits of a challenge. These litigants have complied with court orders, as has President Trump. Pascrell’s call is utterly unhinged from any logical or constitutional foundation. Rebels do not storm the courts with legal filings.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

The quote came to mind after reading the response of Abbe Lowell, legal counsel for Hunter Biden, to the issuance of subpoenas for Hunter and other family members by the House Oversight Committee. The public will demand the same vigorous prosecution in the face of any similar contempt by Biden associates. That will now change.

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