Columns, Constitutional Law, Politics, Supreme Court

Yielding to Temptation: Colorado’s Supreme Court Blocks Democracy to Bar Trump on the 2024 Ballot

Below is my column in The Messenger on the Colorado Supreme Court’s decision disqualifying former President Donald Trump from the 2024 election. There are now over a dozen states considering similar demands from advocates to prevent voters from being able to vote for the current leading candidate for the presidency.  In California, Lieutenant Gov. Eleni Kounalakis publicly called upon the Secretary of State to “explore every legal option” to follow the same path as Colorado. It is a temptation that is irresistible for Democratic politicians in a race to the bottom of our rage politics.

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Columns, Constitutional Law, Politics, Supreme Court

The Call of History: It is Time for the Court to Speak as One in Overturning the Colorado Opinion

Below is my column in the New York Post on the next step in the effort to disqualify former president Donald Trump in the 2024 election. I believe that the Colorado opinion will be set aside, but it is not finality but clarity that we need from the United States Supreme Court.

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Constitutional Law, Media

Times Editorial Board Member Paints Opponents to Trump’s Disqualification as Modern Day Confederates

“Why are you standing with confederates who betrayed this country?” Those words from New York Times editorial board member Mara Gay on MSNBC captured the unhinged coverage of the Colorado Supreme Court’s disqualification of Donald Trump from the 2024 election. While the underlying theory under the 14th Amendment had been previously rejected by jurists in various states (including many Democrats), Gay had a simple take for viewers: anyone raising democratic or constitutional objections are modern day confederates.

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Bizarre

Das Kapital 2.0: New Republic Editor Declares Socialism is Simply Bargain Sales

The New Republic’s  contributing editor and Guardian columnist Osita Nwanevu had a curious posting this week as he offered a new definition of socialism for the public: socialism is simply cheaper products. Even Dell apparently is a socialist enterprise under Nwanevu’s new take. Capitalism? Anything that is too expensive. In other words, voters should elect socialists if they like sales.

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Congress, Criminal law

Harvard/Harris Poll: Majority of Democrats Want Hunter Prosecuted for Contempt

It appears that the concerted effort to excuse Hunter Biden’s defiance of a subpoena in the media has failed. According to a Harvard Caps/Harris poll, 71 percent of Americans believe that Hunter should be prosecuted for contempt of Congress. What is remarkable is that 54 percent of Democrats support his prosecution. Continue reading “Harvard/Harris Poll: Majority of Democrats Want Hunter Prosecuted for Contempt” →

Academia, Constitutional Law, Free Speech

Georgetown Publishes Turley Free Speech Work

The Georgetown Journal of Law and Public Policy has published my latest law review publication titled “The Right to Rage: Free Speech and Rage Rhetoric in American Political Discourse,” 21 Geo. J.L. & Pub. Pol’y 481. The work explores rage rhetoric and some of the areas addressed in my forthcoming book, The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage. 

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Academia, Politics

Achieving Equity Through Mediocrity: Chicago Moves to Eliminate “High-Achieving” School Programs
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and the Chicago Board of Education are following the lead of other major cities and eliminating gifted school programs in the name of achieving greater racial and social “equity.” Eleven “high-achieving selective-enrollment schools” will be eliminated, according to Chicago Board of Education CEO Pedro Martinez, to reduce “stratification and inequity.” Continue reading “Achieving Equity Through Mediocrity: Chicago Moves to Eliminate “High-Achieving” School Programs” →
Columns, Congress, Criminal law

Eric Swalwell and the Politics of Contempt

Below is my column in The Hill on the bizarre scene last week in front of the Capitol when Rep. Eric Swalwell drove up with Hunter Biden and facilitated a flagrant act of contempt of Congress, a federal crime. Swalwell used his office and presumably his staff to assist in the defiance of a valid subpoena for Hunter to appear before a House committee. The House will now presumably hold Hunter in contempt and refer the matter for prosecution. The question is what to do with Eric Swalwell.

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Columns, Congress, Constitutional Law, Criminal law

Yes, Hunter is Now in Contempt of Congress

Below is my column in The Messenger on the decision of Hunter Biden to defy Congress in a press conference outside of the Capitol Building. Remarkably, this spectacle was coordinated by Rep. Eric Swalwell (D., Cal.) who presumably knew that Biden was going to violate the congressional subpoena. So Swalwell (a former impeachment House manager) helped facilitate a possible criminal act in refusing to share appear in an impeachment inquiry.

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Congress

Capitol Offense: Police Investigating Porn Video Shot in Senate Committee Room [Updated]

U.S. Capitol Police is reportedly investigating the shocking videotape of two men having sex in public in what appears the Senate large hearing room in the Hart Senate Office Building. The room is familiar to many citizens from Supreme Court confirmations to impeachment proceedings. Indeed, I have testified repeatedly in the room and argued much of the Porteous impeachment case in that space. First reported on a conservative site, the video of two men having sex led to reports that one of the individuals was a staffer for Sen. Ben Cardin (D., Md.). Update: Cardin aide Aidan Maese-Czeropski, 24, has now been reportedly fired.

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Columns, Congress, Constitutional Law, Media, Politics

The Three Myths of the Biden Impeachment Defense

Below is my (slightly updated) column in the New York Post on three myths being widely repeated in the Biden impeachment inquiry. These false narratives have been eagerly repeated in the media despite lacking legal or factual support. In the interest of interjecting a modicum of reality into this debate, here is why these defenses are illusory.

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Uncategorized

Mouse Hunt: Disney Dissenters Move to Secure Two Seats on Board

We have been discussing the Disney’s recent acknowledgment that its political and social agenda has hurt profits at the company. In recent filings, the company agreed that there has been a “misalignment with public and consumer tastes and preferences,” including “consumers’ perceptions of our position on matters of public interest, including our efforts to achieve certain of our environmental and social goals.” There are also major disagreements over strategic financial decisions made by the company. Some shareholders appear eager for a change — and a challenge to CEO Bob Iger. Continue reading “Mouse Hunt: Disney Dissenters Move to Secure Two Seats on Board” →

Bizarre, Torts

Harvard Professor Sued for Allegedly Inseminating Woman With His Own Sperm

There is an interesting case out of Harvard where OBGYN professor and founder of Boston IVF, Dr. Merle Berger, is being sued for allegedly inseminating a woman with his own sperm. It is reminiscent of the case of Dr. Donald Cline who was accused of impregnating dozens of women with his own sperm. Continue reading “Harvard Professor Sued for Allegedly Inseminating Woman With His Own Sperm” →

Academia, Free Speech

The Awakening: Donors Are Finally Seeing The Radicalization of American Higher Education

“How many lives are 1200 Israelis worth?” That chilling question was put forward by a Rhode Island history professor last week in a condemnation of Israel as a “white supremacist nation” that prompted the Hamas massacre.

Many donors and parents have been repulsed in recent weeks by such extremist viewpoints on our campuses over the Israel-Gaza war. For some of us, however, the hostile environment is nothing new on campuses where faculties have been purged of conservative and libertarian voices for years. Continue reading “The Awakening: Donors Are Finally Seeing The Radicalization of American Higher Education” →