JonathanTurley

AUGUST 30, 2021

Recently, I was critical of a Washington Post column by University of California-Berkeley Dean Erwin Chemerinsky and Professor Aaron S. Edlin, who argued for a legal challenge of the recall election of Callifornia Gov. ” Nevertheless, the theory was pushed by the Washington Post and a host of liberal websites.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 5, 2022

The leak in the abortion case was a despicable act that shocked even the most cynical in Washington. The court has lost a type of institutional innocence in maintaining confidentiality through decades of hard-fought and heated legal disputes. The draft opinion, if left unchanged, would sweep away Roe v. Wade and decades of precedent.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Some of us have repeatedly said that the lawsuit would not succeed despite various law professors filing a brief supporting the underlying claims. Stories often present a distorted account of the constitutional debate in echoing the views of those advocating for judicial or legislative intervention to give D.C. statehood. .”

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

The Washington Post has been criticized for running a column by Aaron Tang , professor of law at the University of California at Davis, claiming an originalist basis for the right to abortion. The column makes highly dubious claims over the legality of early stage abortions and the likely understanding of the Framers of such a right.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2024

It was a bathroom break that inspired Bradley Neal , a 3L at The George Washington University Law School , to develop a product that uses generative AI to help law students better understand and brief cases. Gunnerbot is essentially the fully developed version of the quick query Neal did back in that law school class.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Whatever value a test-blind system may have academically, it could be impactful legally. Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University. Napolitano thanked the task force and promptly announced she would discontinue the use of the tests and move toward a “test-blind” system.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 5, 2022

Senior Legal Advisor, U.S. Program, International Center for Not-For-Profit Law. Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law; Director, Environmental Law Advocacy Center, The George Washington University Law School. Nick Robinson. Dr. Jacob R. Specialist on the Congress, Congressional Research Service.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 31, 2021

Ending standardized testing will have a notable impact on legal challenges to the use of race in college admissions. Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University. Last November, Californians rejected a resolution to restore affirmative action in college admissions.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 26, 2022

It does sound bizarre because it is factually and legally untrue. Even the Washington Post has declared Biden’s understanding of the Second Amendment to be false. You couldn’t buy a cannon, when in fact the Second Amendment passed.”. I have received calls for media for years about this claim and it does not improve by repetition.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 31, 2023

Years ago, my medical colleagues at George Washington University were performing cardiac surgery on an elderly law professor when his arm slipped off the table. When I joined the George Washington Law School in 1990, the greatest draw was to serve on the faculty with a man who was a legend in international law.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 12, 2022

President Biden’s repeated accounts of his Amtrak conductor , truck driving past , and other stories have long been the subject of jokes in Washington. It does sound bizarre because it is factually and legally untrue. Even the Washington Post has declared Biden’s understanding of the Second Amendment to be false.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

It was a tour-de-force on the value of satire to make profound legal and political points. Parody and satire also face threats from other legal actions, particularly tort actions over the appropriation of names or likenesses (called the right to publicity). Image from Supreme Court Petition. Follow him on Twitter @JonathanTurley.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 3, 2023

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 11, 2023

” It turns out she might have been more accurate than she thought — because Fauci legally may have been just a “regular guy” giving out billions without authority. What is equally baffling is that the House informed the administration that it was presumptively in violation of federal law. Rand Paul (R-Ky.),

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 8, 2020

I have tremendous respect for many on the other side of this debate including former Judge Michael Luttig, who just penned a thoughtful column in the Washington Post arguing against such self-pardons. ” The King of England was long held to “do no wrong” legally as a matter of immunity.

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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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JonathanTurley

APRIL 15, 2022

It began with a decision to drop admissions standards to achieve greater diversity, and now there is a fair possibility that this small high school will be the subject of a Supreme Court challenge with far-reaching legal, educational and social implications. Follow him on Twitter @JonathanTurley.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 18, 2021

The briefs filed in the case include groups such the Cato Institute , which directly confronted the court about it being legally absent without leave on gun rights for more than a decade. Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 6, 2021

I have been a vocal critic of Feres for decades and wrote a three-part study of the military legal system 20 years ago that detailed how this doctrine began in 1950 with a clearly erroneous reading of the Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA). The West Point case shows the legal lunacy and lethality of this doctrine.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 30, 2023

Yet, even after the Washington Post declared Biden’s understanding of the Second Amendment to be false, he has continued to make the same false assertion over and over again. The claim was again historically and legally ridiculous even if one opposed these state laws. That happens to be utterly false.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

4] The Washington Post and other media outlets have also declared the President’s insistence that his family did not take money from China as false. [5] 13] Some of the deals negotiated by Hunter involved potential benefits for his father, including office space in Washington. [14] Post, Apr. 27, 2023. [13] 27, 2023. [14] 11, 2023.

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MAY 18, 2024

Nadine Strossen , former president of the American Civil Liberties Union “Brilliant and intellectually honest, Jonathan Turley has few peers as a legal scholar today. Will , Pulitzer Prize winner and Washington Post columnist. The Indispensable Right is an indispensable book.” Jim Webb , former Democratic U.S.

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AUGUST 11, 2022

justice system and reduce mass incarceration, argues a Washington and Lee University law professor. Expansion of the jury trial right would constitute a meaningful structural reform in democratizing criminal justice, at a time when such change is needed to establish the popular legitimacy of the criminal justice system,” writes J.D.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 13, 2022

Even Yost ( who is pro-life ) said that this abortion clearly fit within the exceptions and could be legally performed in Ohio. Under Ohio law , any such case must be reported to police and Yost’s office would likely be involved in any DNA testing that is common in such cases.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 14, 2022

Depp is suing Heard for $50 million based largely on an 2018 Washington Post opinion piece where she described herself a survivor of domestic and sexual violence. It is a curious defense because it is not a legal defense. He still lost and the judge declared that the Sun published was “substantially true.”

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

One issue to watch is how Judge Bruce Schroeder handles the gun count, which is based on what I believe is a flawed legal interpretation by the prosecution. Here is the column: The trial of Kyle Rittenhouse increasingly seems like a legal version of the parable of the blind men and the elephant. One man – not society – is on trial.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 31, 2022

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. Dellinger lost both of those cases, but he notched plenty of victories, including in Washington v. Board of Education.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 7, 2024

Circuit Judge Reggie Walton recently caused a stir in Washington after doing an interview with CNN in which he rebuked former President Donald Trump for his criticism of judges and their family members.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Despite annual columns questioning such apocalyptic predictions, which often seemed more political than legal, the granting of Dobbs led me to write my first “this could be it” column. Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 17, 2021

The bills are the latest examples of “gotcha legislation,” though the Florida bill could raise some interesting legal questions if Gov. Both proposals face serious legal challenges and likely could not survive as codified soundbites. Newsom’s gun ‘heartbeat’ law. Here is the column: California Gov.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 30, 2021

Supporting commentary explained how “Anti-Blackness determined the inclusion of the Second Amendment in the Bill of Rights, and has informed the unequal and racist application of gun laws.”. It is even dangerous today to observe that any given legal problem is not a problem of racism. Some are; many are not.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 19, 2024

Here is the column: Chris Christie once said that Donald Trump is often portrayed by legal counsel as “the unluckiest S.O.B. While a recusal or removal of Willis may delay the case, it will not end the legal threat for Trump. in the world.”

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JonathanTurley

JULY 8, 2022

It’s not an unfamiliar position for the Supreme Court justice, but it generated surprising support at a leading law school. Thousands signed a petition calling for Thomas’ removal as a law lecturer at George Washington University, where I teach. The reason? His vote to overturn Roe v.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 15, 2022

Share Under established constitutional law, states may generally not tax or regulate property or operations of the federal government. Washington. A 1936 federal law waives federal immunity from state workers’ compensation laws on federal land and projects. Washington implicitly contemplates such situations.

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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. Newsom previously asked the U.S. To great acclaim, Rachael Rollins, then the U.S.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 16, 2021

Here is the column: The disclosure of the Justice Department’s targeting of members of Congress and journalists with secret subpoenas has caused a firestorm in Washington. The targeting of recipients of this information in Congress and in the media constitutes direct attacks on Article I and the First Amendment of the Constitution.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Those words from actress Jane Greer, the ultimate femme fatale in the 1947 film-noir classic, “Out of the Past,” could well have been written above the caption of the Biden administration’s brief this week before the Supreme Court, seeking to enjoin the Texas abortion law. You can find his updates on Twitter @JonathanTurley.

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