JONATHAN TURLEY
BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
Professor Jonathan Turley is a nationally recognized legal scholar who has written extensively in areas ranging from constitutional law to legal theory to tort law. He has written over three dozen academic articles that have appeared in a variety of leading law journals at Cornell, Duke, Georgetown, Harvard, Northwestern, University of Chicago, and other schools.
After a stint at Tulane Law School, Professor Turley joined the George Washington faculty in 1990 and, in 1998, was given the prestigious Shapiro Chair for Public Interest Law, the youngest chaired professor in the school’s history. In addition to his extensive publications, Professor Turley has served as counsel in some of the most notable cases in the last two decades including the representation of whistleblowers, military personnel, judges, members of Congress, and a wide range of other clients. He is also one of the few attorneys to successfully challenge both a federal and a state law — leading to courts striking down the federal Elizabeth Morgan law as well as the state criminalization of cohabitation.
In 2010, Professor Turley represented Judge G. Thomas Porteous in his impeachment trial. After a trial before the Senate, Professor Turley (on December 7, 2010) argued both the motions and gave the final argument to all 100 U.S. Senators from the well of the Senate floor — only the 14th time in history of the country that such a trial of a judge has reached the Senate floor. Judge Porteous was convicted of four articles of impeachments, including the acceptance of $2000 from an attorney and using a false name on a bankruptcy filing.
In 2011, Professor Turley filed a challenge to the Libyan War on behalf of ten members of Congress, including Representatives Roscoe Bartlett (R., Md); Dan Burton (R., Ind.); Mike Capuano (D., Mass.); Howard Coble (R., N.C.); John Conyers (D., Mich.); John J. Duncan (R., Tenn.); Tim Johnson (R., Ill.); Walter Jones (R., N.C.); Dennis Kucinich (D., Ohio); and Ron Paul (R., Tx). The lawsuit was before the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.
In November 2014, Turley agreed to serve as lead counsel to the United States House of Representatives in its constitutional challenge to changes ordered by President Obama to the Affordable Care Act. The litigation was approved by the House of Representatives to seek judicial review of the claims under the separation of powers. On May 12, 2016, the federal court handed down a historic victory for the House and ruled that the Obama Administration violated the separation of powers in ordering billions to be paid to insurance companies without an appropriation of Congress.
Other cases include his representation of the Area 51 workers at a secret air base in Nevada; the nuclear couriers at Oak Ridge, Tennessee; the Rocky Flats grand jury in Colorado; Dr. Eric Foretich, the husband in the famous Elizabeth Morgan custody controversy; and four former United States Attorneys General during the Clinton impeachment litigation. In the Foretich case, Turley succeeded recently in reversing a trial court and striking down a federal statute through a rare “bill of attainder” challenge. Professor Turley has also served as counsel in a variety of national security cases, including espionage cases like that of Jim Nicholson, the highest ranking CIA officer ever accused of espionage. Turley also served as lead defense counsel in the successful defense of Petty Officer Daniel King, who faced the death penalty for alleged spying for Russia. Turley also served as defense counsel in the case of Dr. Tom Butler, who is faced criminal charges dealing with the importation and handling of thirty vials of plague in Texas. He also served as counsel to Larry Hanauer, the House Intelligence Committee staffer accused of leaking a classified Presidential National Intelligence Estimate to the New York Times. (Hanauer was cleared of all allegations).
Among his current cases, Professor Turley represents Dr. Ali Al-Timimi, who was convicted in Virginia in 2005 of violent speech against the United States. In 2020, the federal court found that there merit in the challenges raised by Professor Turley and his co-counsel Tom Huff. Accordingly, the judge ordered his release to protect him from Covit-19 while the Court prepared a decision on the challenges. Pursuant to a court order, Dr. Al-Timimi was released from the Supermax in Colorado and the two drove across the country so that he could be placed into home confinement. He also represented Dr. Sami Al-Arian, who was accused of being the American leader of a terrorist organization while he was a university professor in Florida. Turley represented Dr. Al-Arian for eight years, much of which was in a determined defense against an indictment for criminal contempt. The case centered on the alleged violation of a plea bargain by the Justice Department after Dr. Al-Arian was largely exonerated of terrorism charges in Tampa, Florida. On June 27, 2014, all charges were dropped against Dr. Al-Arian. He also represented pilots approaching or over the age of 60 in their challenge to the mandatory retirement age of the FAA. He also represented David Murphee Faulk, the whistleblower who disclosed abuses in the surveillance operations at NSA’s Fort Gordon facility in Georgia.
Professor Turley also agreed to serve as lead counsel representing the Brown family from the TLC “Sister Wives, a reality show on plural marriage or polygamy. On December 13, 2013, the federal court in Utah struck down the criminalization of polygamy — the first such decision in history — on free exercise and due process grounds. On September 26, 2014, the court also ruled in favor of the Browns under Section 1983 — giving them a clean sweep on all of the statutory and constitutional claims. In April 2015, a panel reversed the decision on standing grounds and that decision is now on appeal.
Professor Turley was also lead counsel in the World Bank protest case stemming from the mass arrest of people in 2002 by the federal and district governments during demonstrations of the IMF and World Bank. Turley and his co-lead counsel Dan Schwartz (and the law firm of Bryan Cave) were the first to file and represented student journalists arrested without probable cause. In April 2015, after 13 years of intense litigation, the case was settled for $2.8 million, including $115,000 for each arrestee — a record damage award in a case of this kind and over twice the amount of prior damages for individual protesters. The case also exposed government destruction and withholding of evidence as well as the admitted mass arrest of hundreds of people without probable cause.
Professor Turley also served as the legal expert in the review of polygamy laws in the British of Columbia (Canada) Supreme Court. In the latter case, he argued for the decriminalization of plural union and conjugal unions. In 2012, Turley also represented the makers of “Five Wives Vodka” (Ogden’s Own Distillery) in challenging an effective ban on the product in Idaho after officials declared the product to be offensive to Mormons. After opposing to the ban on free speech and other grounds, the state of Idaho issued a letter apologizing for public statements made by officials and lifting the ban on sale for “Five Wives Vodka.”
Turley has served as a consultant on homeland security and constitutional issues, including the Florida House of Representatives. He also served as the consultant to the Puerto Rico House of Representatives on the impeachment of Gov. Aníbal Acevedo Vilá.
Professor Turley is a frequent witness before the House and Senate on constitutional and statutory issues as well as tort reform legislation. That testimony includes the confirmation hearings of Attorney General nominees Loretta Lynch and William Barr as well as Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch. Professor Turley is also a nationally recognized legal commentator. Professor Turley was ranked as 38th in the top 100 most cited “public intellectuals” in the recent study by Judge Richard Posner. Turley was also found to be the second most cited law professor in the country. He has been repeatedly ranked in the nation’s top 500 lawyers in annual surveys (including in the latest rankings by LawDragon) – one of only a handful of academics. In prior years, he was ranked as one of the nation’s top ten lawyers in military law cases as well as one of the top 40 lawyers under 40. He was also selected in the last five years as one of the 100 top Irish lawyers in the world. In 2016, he was ranked as one of the 100 most famous (past and present) law professors.
Professor Turley is one of only two academics to testify at both the Clinton and Trump impeachment hearings. In December 2019, Professor Turley was called as the one Republican witness in the House Judiciary Committee impeachment hearings. He appeared with three Democratic witnesses. Professor Turley disagreed with this fellow witnesses in opposing the proposed articles of impeachments on bribery, extortion, campaign finance violations or obstruction of justice. He argued that these alleged impeachable acts were at odds with controlling definitions of those crimes and that Congress has historically looked to the criminal code and cases for guidance on such allegations. The committee ultimately rejected those articles and adopted the only two articles that Professor Turley said could be legitimately advanced: abuse of power, obstruction of Congress. Chairman Jerrold Nadler even ended the hearing by quoting his position on abuse of power. However, Turley opposed impeachment on this record as incomplete and insufficient for submission to the Senate. He argued for the House to wait and complete the record by seeking to compel key witnesses like former National Security Adviser John Bolton. His testimony was later relied upon in the impeachment floor debate by various House members and he was cited by both the White House and House managers in their arguments before the United States Senate in the Trump impeachment trial, including videotaped remarks played at the trial.
Professor Turley’s articles on legal and policy issues appear regularly in national publications with hundreds of articles in such newspapers as the New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today, Los Angeles Times and Wall Street Journal. He is a columnist for USA Today and writes regularly for the Washington Post. In 2005, Turley was given the Columnist of the Year award for Single-Issue Advocacy for his columns on civil liberties by the Aspen Institute and the Week Magazine. Professor Turley also appears regularly as a legal expert on all of the major television networks. Since the 1990s, he has worked under contract as the on-air Legal Analyst for NBC News, CBS News, BBC and Fox News. Professor Turley has been a repeated guest on Sunday talk shows with over two-dozen appearances on Meet the Press, ABC This Week, Face the Nation, and Fox Sunday. Professor Turley has taught courses on constitutional law, constitutional criminal law, environmental law, litigation, and torts. He is the founder and executive director of the Project for Older Prisoners (POPS). His work with older prisoners has been honored in various states, including his selection as the 2011 recipient of the Dr. Mary Ann Quaranta Elder Justice Award at Fordham University.
His award-winning blog is routinely ranked as one of the most popular legal blogs by AVVO. His blog was selected as the top News/Analysis site in 2013, the top Legal Opinion Blog in 2011 as well as prior selections as the top Law Professor Blog and Legal Theory Blog. It was also ranked in the top 20 constitutional law blog in 2018. It has been regularly ranked by the ABA Journal in the top 100 blogs in the world. In 2012, Turley has selected as one of the top 20 legal experts on Twitter by Business Insider. In 2013, the ABA Journal inducted the Turley Blog into its Hall of Fame.
Professor Turley received his B.A. at the University of Chicago and his J.D. at Northwestern. In 2008, he was given an honorary Doctorate of Law from John Marshall Law School for his contributions to civil liberties and the public interest.
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U.S. Congress and Supreme Court: Listen to what Dennis Quaid has to say
about Big Pharma’s Abuses!
by Stephen Fox, Managing Editor Santa Fe Sun News
A nightmarish story of two week old twins of Dennis Quaid and Kimberley
Buffington, getting overdosed by a 1000 times overdose of blood thinner
Heparin* at LA Cedars Sinai Hospital (*already under scrutiny for Chinese
manufacturing contamination)
Dennis Quaid is here in Santa Fe to film Legion. We were horrified to learn
what happened to his twins, Thomas Boone and Zoe Grace, who were last
November accidentally given 1,000 times the common dosage of the blood
thinner, Heparin; this drug is already under scrutiny because of
contamination presumably in the manufacturing process in China. According to
an article and photos in the New York Times, this heparin manufacturing
process involves grinding up pig intestines in family kitchens/factories
that seem ordinary for China, but which would seem monstrously filthy in
most nations.
These Quaid twins were conceived with a surrogate mother and are wonderful
little blue-eyed bundles of joy already.
Cedars of Sinai Hospital officials denied that any of the victims suffered
any ill effects. Chief Medical Officer, Michael Langberg confirmed that
three patients received vials containing 10,000 units per milliliter of
heparin, instead of vials with a concentration of 10 units per milliliter.
The patients were receiving intravenous medications and the heparin was used
to flush the catheters to prevent clotting.
Once the hospital staff realized the error, they tested to measure the
patients’ blood clotting function. One test was normal, but the other two
were given another drug, protamine sulfate, that reverses the effects of
heparin. Further tests “indicated no adverse effects from the higher
concentration of heparin,” Langberg said. Heparin is used to treat and
prevent blood clots in the veins or arteries and comes in different
concentrations; too much can be deadly.
Last year, three premature infants at an Indiana hospital died after a
pharmacy technician mistakenly stocked the medicine cabinet with heparin
vials containing a dose 1,000 times stronger than what the babies were
supposed to receive. Three others also suffered overdoses but survived.
Quaid and his wife, Kimberley Buffington, are the biological parents of the
twins, who were born Nov. 8 to a surrogate mother.”God has definitely
blessed us,” the couple said in a statement announcing their birth. Quaid,
53, has a 15-year-old son, Jack Henry Quaid, from his marriage to Meg Ryan.
His credits include “Great Balls of Fire!” “Any Given Sunday” “The Big Easy”
and “Far From Heaven.”
This nightmarish story is of great concern to me, given my deep focus on
consumer protection, especially getting aspartame taken off the market by
getting its FDA and other regulatory approval rescinded.
Two week old children should not be administered such risky drugs in the
first place. Quaid and his wife are correct to be suing the manufacturer
because of the shoddy labeling on each vial, although the $50,000 they are
asking for seems like chump change for what sort of terror as parents they
had to have gone through; Quaid told me that he is very keen on getting them
to standardize their labeling all over the world, so this won’t happen
again. Baxter Health Care stated that: “this is not a product issue. The
issue here is about improper use of a product.”
In a prepared statement, the hospital said a pharmacy technician took the
heparin from the pharmacy’s supply without having a second technician verify
the drug’s concentration, as hospital policy requires. Then, when the
heparin was delivered to a satellite pharmacy that serves the pediatrics
unit, a different technician there did not verify the concentration, as
required.
Finally, the nurses who administered the heparin to the patients violated
policy by neglecting to verify that it was the correct medication and dose
beforehand, the hospital said. Quaid’s suit argues that the heparin
was “unreasonably dangerous” as it was packaged and sold because both the
small and large dosage vials had labels with blue backgrounds when the vials
should have been completely distinguishable (by) size and shape. He can wait
up to eight years to sue Cedars Sinai, which is warranted, given the
developmental damage that might have occurred with the heparin overdose,
which hopefully will not materialize during the next seven ½ years.
Quaid told me out of their concern for other potential vicitms of heparin,
especially children, that he and his wife Kimberley will be addressing a
Congressional hearing in the near future on this matter, and is even more
concerned that the United States Supreme Court does not extend its immunity
blanket to drug manufacturers in a decision expected this summer. “The
Supremes” have already given blanket immunity to medical device
manufacturers, and of course extending this to Big Pharma becomes an obscene
and brazen gift from the Bushie Neocons-doing-business-as-the-US Supreme
Court to some of the biggest corporate monsters in America.
Mike Adams of Newstarget.com, one of the sharpest and most astute
alternative health commentators in the USA, decried this situation in a
great column and recent post as no less than the veritable end of our nation
as we know it, if the Supremes hand the “get-out-of-being-sued” card to Big
Pharma. Let’s hope that Mr Quaid and his wife can add momentum and some
celebrity impact to this discussion when they appear before Congress, and
let’s hope that some of the venerable Supreme Court Justices might just
happen to be listening!
Mr. Turley, thank you for your insights, I just found this blog after having seen you 10 times on Olbermann. I was curious if you were active at all in the things you talk about, ya know, trying to counteract or stop, but I guess I’ll read the blog first.
cheers!
jason in germany
By the way, I did not intend to put a smiley face in my post (I typed close quotes and then close parenthesis).
Dear Professor Turley,
I am an attorney and former adjunct law school professor.
I am writing to bring your attention to an urgent issue, and to get your take on it.
Specifically, as documented at the website http://www.constitutionally.blogspot.com (with links to source materials):
(1) The United States has been in a declared state of emergency continuously from 9/11 to the present;
(2) Continuity of Government (“COG”) measures were actually implemented on 9/11, and were maintained — at the very least — for 9 months;
(3) Congress did not know COG plans had been implemented;
(4) The implementation of COG plans supersedes the Constitutional form of government created by the founding fathers. For example, COG plans basically cut Congress out of the decision-making process;
(5) In the summer of 2007, the Homeland Security Committee of the U.S. Congress requested that the White House disclose to it the full documentation on the latest COG plans. Most or all of the members of the Homeland Security Committee have full security clearances to view all such documents. However, the White House refused to show the Committee the documents, citing “national security”;
(6) There is strong circumstantial evidence that the COG measures implemented on 9/11 were never rescinded, and are still – currently – in effect.
You have shown great insight and courage in speaking on other important Constitutional issues of the day. Thank you in advance for spending a couple of minutes looking into this meta-issue.
GW.
Thanks for your courage and integrity, Jonathan Turley. I never thought I’d live to see torture institutionalized in America. Like Spencer Tracey pointed out in Judgement at Nuremberg, “Civilization is the defendant” if the Bush administration’s war crimes are ever brought to trial. Your unwavering voice pierces the cacophony, and I cannot thank you enough.
Somebody told me when I became what I could have been
Somebody lied to me tell me everything
Cuz it’s been hard you see to find myself again
Oh I’m an angry fool
All of the time I have spent
Trading loves for my innocence
Hey did I betray the truth
Cuz it would be a shiny sea
If I spent it all worthlessly
Oh I’ll be bankrupt from you
Cuz it’s been hard, hard but I’m livin
Trying to believe
I remember back in the day
We were young our dreams just came our way
But now one’s broken, one’s missing, one’s blue
Tell me cuz I just want to know
Did he call me his one man show
I’m all tangled up and bruised
Cuz it’s been hard, hard but I’m livin
Oh it’s been hard, hard but I’m living
Trying to believe
We’re all O.K.
Am I self destructing
Am I self destructing
Are we self destructing
Figure it out
Mr Turley:
I appreciate your appearances on Countdown. Your comment last night (3 April 2008) about lawyers being responsible for sanctioning the lawbreaking in the Bush administration is something that needs to be said. At the same time — and I know you already know this — many lawyers have also shown themselves to be among the most courageous in defending those whose rights have been compromised by the administration. In particular, I’d single out the JAG Corps, especially Navy JAGs, who have been the most involved with Guantanamo. It’s extremely difficult to “go against the flow” when your career is determined by people who disagree with you, but many JAG officers have done so. I salute them.
Jim Wilson
Arlington VA
P.S. No, I’m not a lawyer, nor a member of the Armed Forces. But I’ve had the privilege of working with some JAG officers in the distant past. Their courage and independence in today’s politicized environment doesn’t surprise me in the least.
Mr. Turley,
Hopeless, I found, getting thorough and an insightful view on Texas Supreme Court Justice Medina and his spouse concerning duplicity in the arson of their Spring, Texas home, the destruction of another home, plus damage to a third residence. Seeking just a morsel of intimacy about the various players in their story; their defense attorney, the grand jurors- foreman/asst foreman, a county DA and his assistant, troubled Texas judges, that ole rule of law and sweetheart blind justice. I knew there must be a realm of credulity that was breeched. Nowhere that did not lack integrity did I find background exploring the tangled issues that strung the players together, nowhere did I find a writer or reporter whose pen pointed straight had planted their shovel into the fertile Texas landscape to do limited or otherwise investigative background on the principals themselves where the identity a myriad of sordid details may come to light; i.e., Medina’s financial plight, the spectrum of gay rights and its activism, political mud raking, judicial indiscretions’, and so on. I ignored the lackluster reports as I continued to search the web clicking through a number of “news articles” concerning the Harris County Indictments that had been handed down in January, and then ever so swift right on the heels of the indictment D.A. Rosenberg’s controversial motion to withdraw those indictments against Justice Medina and his spouse (with Judge Wallace ordering same) on different charges between the two… Except that I ran upon your blog about this Medina mess and more, which I read with interest, thank you for reasonably detailing this Medina affair. I can see how you have become interested in a well-rounded way, whether taken aback by the similarities, or lack thereof, concerning the Rocky Flats jury, or a more banal perspective you may be taking– that indeed disaster lies underfoot of the Harris County prosecutors’ actions, that impotence is laying in wait, that our judicial system is under stealth attack. Someone must be there to witness, be there to report at some level upon truth that does not lie. And it is you- you are that man, who I now recognize. I am but one lone interested reader, but I know there are more like me too, wanting to know, and to know even more without picking up a Texas Monthly.
CSRVICES
Austin, Texas
Mr Turley,
I appreciate your candor and have become a fan of your writing and TV appearances (while testifying and as an analyst). Always speak truth, sir.
Thank you!
I have added you to my BlogRoll so others may find their way here.
Where is William Boykin.
A Man and A Woman, what shall they be
An Artist and An Artist, all that responsibility
A poet, a philosopher , a diplomat, a muse
An actress, a musician, an inspiration, to truth
Dear nature come calling on God’s blessed Earth
Your children love dearly this place of their birth
A home eternal for creatures large and small
World spin the seasons winter, spring, summer and fall
A web has been built between present and past
It’s up to mankind to decide if mankind will last
The future holds promise for all cultures to see
The cosmos do beckon for the brave and the free
Democracy’s path protects freedom and rights
Woe to those who abuse it and challenge it’s light
Some pretend to believe for power and greed
Their fate is sealed, their faith failed their need
The material and the spiritual and all of God’s plan
This meeting has been building from before the fall of man
The journey’s been joined by our friends Time and Space
And of course the Almighty in his infinite grace
Now on with your hats and on with your boots
The good and the righteous are forgiven for the fruit
A Man and A Woman, what shall they be
To all on all virtues, we’re waiting to see
Dear Jonathan Turley 02-15-08
I enjoy listening to your comments whenever you are on Keith Olbermann’s show. The other day was most interesting as it fits well with what I’ve experienced in most of my life while married. The following day, I ran a search looking for any website that followed your commentary but there was only one.
I left the following post and wanted to make sure you and Keith were able to read it…..
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Unfortunately there is much more to what is happening than what many already know. Many of us are horrified with what is happening, but there maybe another side that explains this than what we all currently see.
Sadly, sometime over the last many decades we’ve seemed to have replaced our two parties into two groups with one wanting our Constitution and the other NOT wanting the Constitution. There seems to be many other changes too and a glaring one is that our system of Law isn’t living up to what it should be. There is also a realization with everyone that “We the People” have been replaced with “The Corporations” and “Others” NOT wanting the Constitution.
Unknown to me at the time while married in a family back in the 70’s, they joined a group who actively doesn’t want the Constitution. I was in that family for more than 26 years and early on, their job with this group was to launder Drug and Gun Running money straight into property with big Banks using Mortgage Fraud to hide ownership. Please note that the Gun Running part has already been in the news with Drummond Corp and Chiquita Brand. However there is another huge part beyond these corporations that include many others that many don’t know about.
In the early 90’s the family graduated from laundering money into going into business with “Clyde O’Connor” with flying in huge amounts of Drugs into the US. This became part of a large group of other people, some families I can name. Recent investigations have surfaced that a fleet of 50 Planes are involved. Clyde O’Connor was caught in Mexico later last year with Ton’s of Cocaine on his plane but wasn’t ever prosecuted as he remains at large to this day. Clyde is my ex-sister-in-laws brother and her husband is Clyde’s money man. I know this because I stood next to Clyde and my ex-brother-in-law in the early 90’s while they discussed getting their new business venture started in Florida.
As per the family, the drug system is enormous. The Chicago part is a $100 Million Weekly shipment split with Florida and New York. That amounts to more than $5 Billion annually and we need to consider that there are many other weekly shipments going elsewhere within the US at the same time.
As explained by the family, the Drug system’s proceeds are being used to FUND “Black Op’s” here in the US in support of another “White House Coup”. The Coup has been “in process” for decades as they learned early on after the failed White House Coup in 1933 that a different approach was needed to succeed. The Coup is waiting for a day they call “The Change”. “The Change” is when our Government system finally changes over to be a Dictatorship. That is also when many other things are expected to happen as well. Needless to say, there was a lot of discussion back then knowing the earlier failure with worrying about another failure. Even though the family was concerned, they always said that they were told this time the Coup would be successful.
There is a lot to talk within the family about this issue. Please accept that I’m as concerned for everyone as you are. After hearing Keith Olbermann and Jonathan Turley last night, my thought today was to write them directly. I may still do that. Happily I ran across this article with an opportunity to reply.
I just hope and pray someone is listening!
Marty Didier
Northbrook, IL
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Usually posting challenges my ability to limit an explanation of this system to something smaller than a book. There is so much more about this that needs to be surfaced. I’ve been following the news for sometime and feel that soon something may break on many of these issues. That means that if not now, later we’ll be talking in a serious manner focused on what this is.
Sincerely,
Marty Didier
Professor,
What an impressive C.V.! I’m grateful you’ve found another medium to share your constitutional wisdom with all of us. Your reach is growing and providing many people like me with important info to help steer this country in the right direction.
Here’s proof: On an Octover 16 entry above, JBR asked about your opinion of impeachable offenses commited by the President. He wanted to convince Congressman Wexler of the need to uphold the Constitution. Have you seen wexlerwantshearings.com yet? Kudos to both you and JBR for playing a role.
I’ve contacted my congressman but have not gotten any response yet. I’ll keep trying, though, I’m becoming more pessimistic about him.
My question is since the teleco’s may receive retroactive immunity, does this negate the warrantless wiretapping as an impeachable offense? Also, is there any truth to the argument that if the teleco’s do not receive immunity, then other companies will not be able to support the Administration spying on Americans “to protect Americans?”
Thanks in advance for your response. And thanks also for joining the blogosphere…I’ve added your site to my Favorites!
Professor,
What is your opinion on the constitutionality of sex offender registration? I look forwoed to your reply.
BP
That was back in the 1970s. Here are a couple of links http://jonathanturley.org/2007/08/20/the-page-scandal-and-a-congress-that-simply-cant-resist/ and http://jonathanturley.org/2007/08/18/the-page-protection-act-the-path-to-saving-a-historic-program/
It is good to hear from another page. I was in the House page service in 1997 and 1978. I loved it, though as these links indicate, I have been a critic of the structure and supervision of the page service since then.
I read on another web site that you served as a Congressional page. I also served–in 1969. Just wondering what year(s) you served and your thoughts on the experience.
Thanks!
rog
Hello ,
I hope you are fine and carrying on the great work you have been doing for the Internet surfers. I am Ghazala Khan from The Pakistani Spectator (TPS), We at TPS throw a candid look on everything happening in and for Pakistan in the world. We are trying to contribute our humble share in the webosphere. Our aim is to foster peace, progress and harmony with passion.
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regards.
Ghazala Khan
The Pakistani Spectator
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Dear Prof. Turley,
Thanks so much for your prompt response. I hope you don’t mind if I posted the link to this excellent, not to mention alarming, article at a Justice System forum. My feeling is, the more people who know about these abuses by law enforcement, the better.
I have noticed that everyone wants to believe the best of law enforcement at the city, state and federal levels, but it seems they’re too eager to bury their heads in the sand to avoid hearing the worst. The consequences of this ostrich imitation is that the worst (being falsely or wrongly charged with a criminal offense) could happen to them, or someone in their family. By then, of course, it is too late.
Again, thank you. 🙂
JT and Susan
I was curious, too, so I Googled the phrase
“CRIMINALIZING INNOCENT BEHAVIOR AT AN ALARMING RATE”
and got an article you wrote for Jewish World Review 3/28/07
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/jonathan/turley.php3
Thanks Susan. You will find a bunch of entries on the over-criminalization of America by putting in criminalization in the search box. A column can be found at http://jonathanturley.org/2007/08/18/the-criminalization-of-america/
Thanks again for your kind words and putting me in your favorite site!