A plan at Utah Valley University (UVU) to create a memorial to Charlie Kirk has been met by protests and…| JONATHAN TURLEY
Despite calls for many Democratic politicians and pundits to temper their inflammatory rhetoric, this week has proven a further escalation…| JONATHAN TURLEY
Yesterday, I had the pleasure of speaking as part of the Presidential Series at the Union League of Philadelphia on…| JONATHAN TURLEY
Stacey Patton, professor of journalism at Howard University, has caused an uproar with her advice to white people who want…| JONATHAN TURLEY
Switzerland was famous (or infamous) for staying neutral in World War II. It simply would not take a side between…| JONATHAN TURLEY
In a recent debate with a Harvard Law Professor, I was surprised when my counterpart insisted with (other dubious factual…| JONATHAN TURLEY
The large “No Kings” protests this weekend were peaceful with the exception of some hot spots in Portland near ICE…| JONATHAN TURLEY
Jimmy Kimmel is back on television by less than popular demand. Kimmel’s ratings are hardly robust (Kimmel pulls in 1.85…| JONATHAN TURLEY
Below is my column in The Hill on the recent controversy at Rutgers University, where different groups are pushing to ban Turning Point USA and Professor Mark Bray, the author of the “Antifa …| JONATHAN TURLEY
There has been a massive increase in Turning Point chapters and membership following the assassination of founder Charlie Kirk. Students…| JONATHAN TURLEY
The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) has long been criticized for far-left policies and activism. Some of us have…| JONATHAN TURLEY
I recently wrote about the effort of leading politicians, pundits, and the press to deny the existence of Antifa as…| JONATHAN TURLEY
Yesterday, the Supreme Court held the long-awaited argument in Louisiana v. Callais, considering an appeal of Louisiana’s congressional map. The…| JONATHAN TURLEY
We previously discussed the case of B.A. v. Tri County Area Schools, where two middle schoolers in Michigan were prevented from wearing “Let’s Go Brandon” sweatshirts. However, a …| JONATHAN TURLEY
The reinvention of Vice President Kamala Harris in this election has been a thing to behold. In politics, candidates often reconstruct their records to secure votes, but Harris appears to have cons…| JONATHAN TURLEY
U.S. District Judge David Nye just rejected a last-minute effort to scuttle a Supreme Court case on transgender athletes. The…| JONATHAN TURLEY
I previously criticized the new Pentagon policies for media organizations. While the Trump Administration made some changes, the rules remained…| JONATHAN TURLEY
We previously discussed how the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) elected an outspoken activist as its president. The selection…| JONATHAN TURLEY
Below is my column on the rise of Antifa deniers in Washington. Once embraced and even marketed on the left,…| JONATHAN TURLEY
California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed the long-anticipated “Responsible Gun Manufacturing Act,” Assembly Bill 1127, a law that may now trigger a major challenge under the Second Amendment. The la…| JONATHAN TURLEY
Princeton University announced this week that it will be reinstating the requirement for undergraduate applicants to submit standardized test scores…| JONATHAN TURLEY
Below is my column in the New York Post on how Madison’s famous objective of making “ambition … counteract ambition”…| JONATHAN TURLEY
I am returning today from a speech in Boise, Idaho. I love coming to Idaho and Boise in the “Treasure…| JONATHAN TURLEY
As someone who has taught torts (including defamation) for three decades, I pay close attention to defamation claims coming out of campaigns. I often question the viability of such claims given the…| JONATHAN TURLEY
On MSNBC’s “All In,” House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) doubled down on his pledge of legal retaliation against Trump officials and associates if Democrats retake power. He noted that Tr…| JONATHAN TURLEY
James Comey made history this week by standing in the dock and entering a not guilty plea as the first…| JONATHAN TURLEY
As a native Chicagoan, I must confess that I have little patience for Mayor Brandon Johnson, a politician who has been a disaster for the city. One of the most unpopular mayors in the city’s …| JONATHAN TURLEY
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On Sunday, the Green Party in the United Kingdom voted to “abolish” private landlords in a move that reaffirms the…| JONATHAN TURLEY
Jay Jones, Virginia’s Democratic attorney general candidate, is under fire for shocking statements that expressed a desire to kill political opponents and their young “fascist” children…| JONATHAN TURLEY
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Just in time for Halloween, the U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to rule on Hawaii’s so-called “Vampire Rule” on gun…| JONATHAN TURLEY
Below is my column in The Hill on the pledge of Zohran Mamdani to end some of the early Gifted…| JONATHAN TURLEY
Yesterday, I had the pleasure of debating Harvard Professor Randall Kennedy at Vanderbilt University in Nashville. Before returning to Washington,…| JONATHAN TURLEY
An elementary school in Kansas has raised a novel question under the First Amendment: whether the freedom of speech includes…| JONATHAN TURLEY
When I wrote my book on Free Speech in an Age of Rage, I never thought Virginia would become ground…| JONATHAN TURLEY
I have the pleasure of joining Harvard Professor Randall Kennedy today for a discussion of the state of free speech…| JONATHAN TURLEY
The Democratic candidate for Virginia’s next lieutenant governor, Ghazala Firdous Hashmi, appears to believe that the United States Constitution is dead.…| JONATHAN TURLEY
Yesterday, I flagged the decision of New York University’s School of Law to cancel the planned Federalist Society event featuring…| JONATHAN TURLEY
Various people have asked for a video of my debate this week at the Virginia Military Institute over the question…| JONATHAN TURLEY
Judge William Young has had a distinguished career since his appointment by President Ronald Reagan in 1985, including serving as…| JONATHAN TURLEY
Just The News is reporting that “Person 3” in the Comey indictment is not former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe…| JONATHAN TURLEY
Today, I will be participating in a debate on the following question: “Is the U.S. Experiencing a Constitutional Crisis?” Taking…| JONATHAN TURLEY
Below is my column in the Hill on the rise of rage politics. There was barely a respite from the…| JONATHAN TURLEY
Rose Docherty is what they call a criminal recidivist in the United Kingdom. The 75-year-old woman has been arrested for…| JONATHAN TURLEY
Des Moines Public Schools Superintendent Ian Roberts was arrested this week after fleeing ICE officers and abandoning a school-subsidized car…| JONATHAN TURLEY
For years, many of us have raised concerns over the political weaponization of the New York legal system from the…| JONATHAN TURLEY
Below is my column in the New York Post on the indictment of James Comey. As I mentioned yesterday, the…| JONATHAN TURLEY
Below is my column on Fox.com from a recent trip to Grand Lake, Colorado, a small town where families gather…| JONATHAN TURLEY
I previously discussed the free speech lawsuit of Peter Strzok, expressing skepticism over his claims that the Justice Department violated…| JONATHAN TURLEY
Recently, I wrote a column about Meta’s restoration of free speech protections after the company admitted to censoring users on…| JONATHAN TURLEY
A few days ago, I had the occasion to debate Michael Klarman, the Charles Warren Professor of Legal History at…| JONATHAN TURLEY
Below is my column in the Hill on the suspension of Jimmy Kimmel and how long advocates of censorship and…| JONATHAN TURLEY
This weekend, I had the honor of serving as the Constitution Day speaker for Grand Lake, Colorado. The town, established in 1881, is one of the most irresistibly charming places that I have ever en…| JONATHAN TURLEY
Charlotte Bronte once wrote “I believe that creature is a changeling: she is a perfect cabinet of oddities.” No quote better captured the chilling curiosity that is Hillary Clinton. Thi…| JONATHAN TURLEY
In the midst of the flurry of activity on Capitol Hill and in the courts, a single subpoena from federal prosecutors last week went largely unnoticed by many in Washington. However, it could repres…| JONATHAN TURLEY
Below is my column in USA Today on the restoration of free speech protections at Facebook and Meta. Earlier this year, I wrote a column on the plan at Meta to follow X in the reduction of censorshi…| JONATHAN TURLEY
Below is my column in The Hill on the spate of lawsuits against OpenAI over injuries associated with ChatGPT. These lawsuits could offer a long-needed review of OpenAI and its corporate practices. …| JONATHAN TURLEY
Res ipsa loquitur - The thing itself speaks| JONATHAN TURLEY
No one would think of the Beltway as being a place of the naive innocents of our society. Washington is the only ecosystem composed entirely of apex predators. Yet, this week everyone seems to be e…| JONATHAN TURLEY
We have now reached the six-month anniversary of the investigation into border patrol agents that President Joe Biden declared guilty of whipping migrants at the border. Biden and the media spread …| JONATHAN TURLEY
For over a year, I have written and testified about the investigation of what really occurred in the clearing of the Lafayette Park. Much of this debate has focused on the motive behind the federal…| JONATHAN TURLEY
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Democratic members are again claiming that they can demand access to any federal facilities without approval or even notice to a given agency. We saw previously how Rep. LaMonica McIver stormed an…| JONATHAN TURLEY
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Some readers have noticed the interruption in new postings on this blog and social media. Due to the passing of his mother, Angela Piazza Turley, 97, in Chicago, Professor Turley has been spending …| JONATHAN TURLEY
Below is my column in the New York Post on the latest attack on Elon Musk from the left. There is a mania on the left in calling people with opposing views “Nazis” and referencing the T…| JONATHAN TURLEY
A report, titled, “Free expression and constructive dialogue at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,” is latest study to confirm what many of us have said for years: un…| JONATHAN TURLEY
In the first month of the Trump Administration, Democrats seem to be following the old adage of French Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau that “generals always fight the last war.” Howev…| JONATHAN TURLEY
Below is my column in The Hill on the recent Wall Street Journal report on the Biden Administration’s resistance to experts who voiced support for the lab theory on the origins of COVID-19. A…| JONATHAN TURLEY
Below is my column in the New York Post on the unhinged response to Vice President J.D. Vance’s historic defense of free speech in Europe. The chorus of criticism from press and pundits was i…| JONATHAN TURLEY
Now, Interior Minister Nancy Faeser wants the world to know that she is not, as widely claimed, anti-free speech … so she is allegedly cracking down on free speech until people change their m…| JONATHAN TURLEY
Washington State’s unofficial state motto has long been “Al-ki” which means either “bye and bye” or “by and by” in Chinook. The former meaning now seems of…| JONATHAN TURLEY
Below is my column in The Hill on the calls for “blanket pardons” for hundreds and even thousands of people. Despite Trump’s ill-considered statement about how the J6 Committee me…| JONATHAN TURLEY
We previously discussed the defamation lawsuit brought by Navy veteran Zachary Young against CNN and anchor Jake Tapper. Young has been doing well in court and last week he won on additional major …| JONATHAN TURLEY
Below is my column in The Hill on how some Democrats are joining a diaspora of the disgruntled and despondent in leaving the country or finding safe spaces away from opposing viewpoints. It appears…| JONATHAN TURLEY
Below is my column in the Hill on the bid of Elon Musk to buy Twitter and its implications for free speech. The increasingly alarmist arguments of the left have continued to mount. On MSNBC, Democr…| JONATHAN TURLEY
We have previously discussed allegations that Marc Elias, the former general counsel for the Clinton Campaign and partner at the firm Perkins Coie, lied to conceal the campaign’s funding of t…| JONATHAN TURLEY
A German man may go to jail for six months over a ringtone. The man has been using a Hitler speech as his ringtone on his cellphone. In Germany, it is a crime to display Nazi symbols or Nazi works.| JONATHAN TURLEY
With the start of classes at George Washington Law School, I have already had visits to my office of conservative and libertarian students asking if I thought they could speak freely in other class…| JONATHAN TURLEY
Below is my column in the New York Post on the reappearance of Marc Elias in leading the effort to undo the victory of Dave McCormick in Pennsylvania. While some have distanced themselves from the …| JONATHAN TURLEY
Below is my column in USA Today on how the Musk purchase of Twitter has forced politicians and pundits to move from corporate censorship to calls for good old-fashioned state censorship. Indeed, Se…| JONATHAN TURLEY
There is a new free speech controversy in the United Kingdom after Joseph Kelly, 36, was convicted of posting a “grossly offensive” tweet about a war veteran. Kelly has been sentenced to 150 hours …| JONATHAN TURLEY
We often discuss how defending free speech often means defending those who we find thoroughly grotesque or offensive. In that sense, Nicholas Brock, 52, is the ultimate personification of the pri…| JONATHAN TURLEY
On Sunday, I ran a column in the Washington Post detailing how free speech is dying in the West. That column featured cases from England prominently as have many stories on this blog. Now we have y…| JONATHAN TURLEY
We have previously followed the trend against free speech in the West ranging from anti-blasphemy laws (including a resolution supported by President Obama) to hate speech prosecutions for criticiz…| JONATHAN TURLEY
I will be testifying this morning in Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties of the House Judiciary Committee in a hearing on “Enhancing the Foreign Agents Registr…| JONATHAN TURLEY
We previously discussed the movement in journalism schools to get rid of principles of objectivity in journalism. Advocacy journalism is the new touchstone in the media even as polls show that trus…| JONATHAN TURLEY
We have been discussing the virtual elimination of Republican and conservative scholars from many faculties despite the fact that roughly half of the country regularly votes for Republicans or cons…| JONATHAN TURLEY
Below is my column in the Hill on one way for Elon Musk to re-introduce free speech values on his newly acquired social media platform. Pro-censorship advocates like former President Barack Obama m…| JONATHAN TURLEY
Below is my column in The Hill on the release of a new Disinformation Index by a group partially funded by the Biden Administration. Gabe Kaminsky at the Washington Examiner previously ran a story …| JONATHAN TURLEY
Below is my column in The Hill on why a Harris-Walz Administration would be a nightmare for free speech. A long-standing advocate for censorship and other speech controls, Vice President Kamala Har…| JONATHAN TURLEY
CNN has been fighting a defamation case brought after a segment by Jake Tapper that accused Zachary Young and his company Nemex Enterprises Inc. of preying on people seeking to flee Afghanistan, ev…| JONATHAN TURLEY
Below is my column in The Hill on the recent notice that this blog is now being formally “reviewed” by NewsGuard, a company that I just criticized in a prior Hill column as a threat to …| JONATHAN TURLEY
I hope that our readers have read the response of NewsGuard’s Gordon Crovitz to my recent criticism of the company’s rating system for news sites. He makes important points, including t…| JONATHAN TURLEY
Below is my column in the Hill on the recent report of the House Judiciary Committee and the disclosure of yet another effort to silence opposing viewpoints by squeezing the revenue of individuals …| JONATHAN TURLEY
