JonathanTurley
APRIL 18, 2022
When I was clerking in Louisiana after graduating law school, there was story of a rather notorious local judge asking counsel in a criminal case if he was ready to present the case of the defendant. That law has been treated as dormant given the 1973 decision in Roe v. Gleicher was appointed by Gov.
JonathanTurley
OCTOBER 25, 2021
Likewise, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals this month affirmed such a preliminary injunction against Western Michigan University. The issue reached the Supreme Court this week when health workers challenged a similar law in Maine allowing for medical but not religious exemptions.
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JonathanTurley
MARCH 17, 2021
The litigation over the 2020 election seem to be continuing with a ruling this week from Michigan Court of Claims Chief Judge Christopher Murray that Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson (D) broke state law in issuing new rules on absentee balloting before the 2020 election. Here is the opinion: Genetski v. Benson, No.
JonathanTurley
JUNE 8, 2021
We also recently discussed the firing of a Michigan coach who expressed support for President Trump. The school could appeal but it would be wise to reframe its position before it reenters litigation. However, this did not begin with the recent protests. Better yet, it could work out a compromise to protect free speech rights.
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. In the law, the adjustment can take years, as collateral doctrines and applications shake out along new fault lines. Yet Biden’s and Becerra’s words already are being cited in the litigation by the challengers.
JonathanTurley
DECEMBER 21, 2020
Featured prominently on the law school’s website , the article pushes a similar proposal made in the Washington Post in 2015 by Theodore Johnson, a senior fellow at the Brennan Center for Justice. Ironically, the proposals would upend decades of civil rights litigation to defend the “one man, one vote” principle.
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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