Jonathan Turley

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  • Aug 11, 2025
    The media and various liberal pundits are again shrugging this week after the exposure of another false story targeting a conservative or Republican. In this case, Vice President JD...
  • Aug 8, 2025
    The Tenth Circuit handed down a notable opinion this week in Poe v. Drummond, upholding Oklahoma’s law prohibiting gender transition procedures for anyone under eighteen. The...
  • Aug 7, 2025
    Democrats are struggling to convince the public that they are outraged that there is gerrymandering afoot in Texas. It is no easy task, particularly after Texas Democrats selected...
  • Aug 2, 2025
    Below is my column in Fox.com on the release of the last declassified material on the origins of the Russian collusion investigation. After the release, former CIA Director John...
  • Aug 1, 2025
    When President James Buchanan declared that the United States Senate is the “world’s greatest deliberative body,” he clearly had not envisioned Sen. Cory Booker (D., N.J.). In...
  • Jul 30, 2025
    Below is my column in the Hill on the “wanderlust” of former CIA Director John Brennan and how it might be coming to an end with new disclosures on his role in the origins of the...
  • Jul 13, 2025
    Democratic strategist and former Obama chief of staff Rahm Emanuel once stated that “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.” That philosophy seemed to be the playbook...
  • Jul 9, 2025
    “What we really need to do is be willing to get shot.” Those words to a Democratic member are part of a chilling Axios story on the rising violent rhetoric on the...
  • Jul 9, 2025
    This week, the New York Times experienced an uprising in its ranks and among its readers. The paper was denounced by its own staff and liberal pundits called for the entire editorial...
  • Jul 8, 2025
    Democratic strategist and former Obama chief of staff Rahm Emanuel once stated that “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.” That philosophy seemed to be the playbook...
  • Jul 7, 2025
    This week, the New York Times experienced an uprising in its ranks and among its readers. The paper was denounced by its own staff and liberal pundits called for the entire editorial...
  • Jun 30, 2025
    George Washington University Law School Professor Jonathan Turley talked about the history of free speech in the United States and the people who advanced it. He argued that the...
  • Jun 28, 2025
    For most citizens, the release of Supreme Court opinions is about as exciting as watching paint dry, particularly in a case dealing with the limits of district courts in issuing...
  • Jun 16, 2025
    Below is my column in the Hill on resumption of the claims that “democracy is dying” as part of the “No Kings” protests. When this column posted, I was inundated with the...
  • Jun 9, 2025
    Below is my column in The Hill on a new emerging mantra from businesses and universities seeking to roll back on DEI and other programs: Trump Did It. The TDI defense is allowing...
  • Jun 6, 2025
    Yesterday, the Supreme Court handed down three major cases with unanimous decisions. One, Ames v. Ohio Department of Youth Services, raises additional questions over diversity,...
  • Jun 4, 2025
    Filmmaker Michael Moore has decided that it is time to rewrite the Pledge of Allegiance in the name of tolerance and unity while attacking “MAGA-heads” and President Trump. If...
  • May 30, 2025
    The Voice of San Francisco is reporting that San Francisco Board of Education Superintendent Maria Su has found a solution for the declining scores in the public schools: lowering...
  • May 29, 2025
    Eighty-one years ago, on May 31, 1944, General George Patton walked before the 6th Armored Division before the D-Day invasion and told the troops a simple, inescapable fact about...
  • May 27, 2025
    Below is my column in the Hill on the continuing confusion over national or universal injunctions. The last week has shown that this chronic injunctivitis must end. Here is the...
  • May 21, 2025
    Across the country, a new defense is being heard in state and federal courtrooms. From Democratic members of Congress to judges to city council members, officials claim that their...
  • May 9, 2025
    The Pulitzer Prize has triggered a firestorm of criticism over its selection of Mosab Abu Toha as this year’s recipient for commentary. Abu Toha was specifically recognized for his...
  • May 8, 2025
    We previously discussed the legislation passed by Washington State democrats that requires priests to violate the sanctity of the confessional to report child abuse. I described the...
  • May 5, 2025
    This week, President Trump signed an executive order that seeks to restrict public funds to NPR and PBS. 
  • May 3, 2025
    We have been discussing the increasing political violence on the left. That includes a student who published a column recently on “when must we kill them?” I noted that such...
  • Apr 29, 2025
    The defense team for Judge Hannah Dugan is likely thinking, “This is not helpful.” While Dugan initially contested the allegations that she assisted an illegal immigrant...
  • Apr 28, 2025
    Below is my column in the Hill on the slew of additional injunctions imposed by district courts last week. Some of these courts seem on a hair-trigger in ordering the record number...
  • Apr 22, 2025
    Natasha Cohen, 46, is a New York therapist who appears to be stuck in the denial stage of Kübler-Ross. After she was arrested in the latest case of political violence by the left,...
  • Apr 19, 2025
    There is controversy at George Mason University after Nicholas Decker, an economics PhD student published an essay asking “When Must We Kill Them?” in reference to Trump and his...
  • Apr 14, 2025
    We previously discussed how companies were barring political protests or paraphernalia at the workplace and how such rules are entirely enforceable. That made a recent story...
  • Apr 10, 2025
    Parental rights are emerging as one of the major civil liberties movements of this generation — and one of the greatest conflicts between the right and the left in this country....
  • Apr 7, 2025
    “We should replace our piece of crap Constitution.”
  • Apr 5, 2025
    In this age of rage, it is common for people to become the very thing that they despise in others, jettisoning their most cherished values to strike out at those they hate.
  • Apr 2, 2025
    In this age of rage, it is common for people to become the very thing that they despise in others, jettisoning their most cherished values to strike out at those they hate.
  • Mar 29, 2025
    Yesterday, there was a curious aspect to the coverage of the video of a woman attacking a young man for wearing a MAGA hat. Ignored by many mainstream outlets, conservative news...
  • Mar 26, 2025
    Yesterday, there was a curious aspect to the coverage of the video of a woman attacking a young man for wearing a MAGA hat. Ignored by many mainstream outlets, conservative news...
  • Mar 18, 2025
    As expected, the relationship between the Trump White House and the media resumed where it ended in the first term in outright warfare. The mutual disdain has become open contempt as...
  • Mar 10, 2025
    It’s only March, and we have yet another declaration of a “constitutional crisis.”
  • Mar 5, 2025
    For years, the mantra on the left was “reimagining” everything from policing to free speech to defense. Reimagining often was a synonym for defunding or limiting the subject...
  • Mar 3, 2025
    Some of us have criticized the rising “rage rhetoric” for years, including that of President Trump and Democratic leaders, denouncing opponents as traitors and...
  • Feb 28, 2025
    There was another meltdown at the Washington Post after owner Jeff Bezos moved again to moderate the newspaper’s message, which has plummeted in readership. Bezos told the editors...
  • Feb 18, 2025
    In “Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis,”  J.D. Vance wrote, “I don’t believe in epiphanies. I don’t believe in...
  • Feb 14, 2025
    This week, the Democratic Party jumped the shark.
  • Feb 9, 2025
    Democratic leaders continued to ramp up their “rage rhetoric” following the inauguration. We have already seen violent protests and planned assassinations directed against Trump...
  • Jan 22, 2025
    That mania reached absurd, even comedic, levels with the attack on Elon Musk over an awkward gesture during the inauguration celebration.
  • Jan 22, 2025
    Last night, I discussed a new executive order signed by President Donald Trump that included an extension of his earlier move against “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI)...
  • Jan 21, 2025
    Below is my column on the pardoning of the January 6th defendants by President Donald Trump. The scope of the pardon appears broader than some had hoped. What is clear is that any...
  • Jan 20, 2025
    With only 15 minutes to go as president, Joe Biden snatched infamy from the jaws of obscurity.
  • Jan 18, 2025
    I was greatly honored yesterday to be selected as one of this year’s recipients of the Samizdat Prize, awarded by RealClearPolitics, a leading news site in the fight against...
  • Jan 16, 2025
    In following the defamation trial against CNN by veteran Zachary Young, we have previously (here, here, and here) marveled at how bad things were going for the network. It appears...
  • Jan 11, 2025
    On Friday, the sentencing of President-Elect Donald Trump saw one of the most impassioned defense arguments given at such a hearing in years … from the judge himself.
  • Jan 6, 2025
    Law professor and Fox News contributor Jonathan Turley says House Delegate Stacey Plaskett showed with her demand for a vote on the speakership that she doesn't understand the...
  • Jan 2, 2025
    The Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) is under fire this week after it censored a leading scientist, atheist, and board member, Jerry Coyne, a professor emeritus of ecology at...