Category: Legal Law

For those of us who have criticized the cancel culture in higher education for years, the attacks and shunning have…

Below is an expanded version of my New York Post column on the appearance of Michael Cohen Monday in the…

We have been following universities as they cave to protester demands from elaborate settlement deals at Northwestern to the cancelation…

(MSNBC/via YouTube) The firm of former Clinton campaign general counsel Marc Elias has lost another election case in a spectacular…

There has been much talk about the decision of Judge Juan Merchan not to recuse himself from the Trump trial…

“I gave up shame years ago.” Those words from actor John Lithgow appear to have been taken to heart by…

While pundits, politicians and the press have long expressed outrage over attacks on judges by former President Donald Trump, many…

Fox is reporting that Michael Cohen was back on TikTok last night using the Trump trial to troll for dollars.…

Below is my New York Post column on the unseemly scene in the courtroom of Judge Juan Merchan as prosecutors…

The University of Washington issued a statement that campus police “are busy keeping the Turning Point USA event and other…

Woody Allen once said that “80 percent of success is showing up.” Yesterday, Columbia University established its academic corollary: 80 percent…

C-Span/YouTube Screenshot Below is my column in The Hill on the expected appearance of Michael Cohen in the Manhattan trial…

For years, I have written about the analogy of what is happening on our campuses to the French Revolution, including…

The backlash over the settlement of Northwestern University with pro-Palestinian protesters continues to mount. In a letter acquired by The Daily…

Dartmouth, history Professor Annelise Orleck this week became the latest academic arrested in the pro-Palestinian protests unfolding on campuses across…

In recent years, there has been much discussion of the claims of “trauma” by students caused by court rulings and…

The Trump short list for vice presidential candidates is reportedly down to Ohio Senator, J.D. Vance, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio,…

A poll from  the American Press Institute and The Associated Press-NORC Center has found that a majority of Americans are…

Now this could truly be educational. Students protesting on our campuses have been offered free scholarships at Shiraz University in…

Northwestern University has agreed to a controversial settlement with pro-Palestinian protesters encamped on its campus this week, including a commitment…

When Robert Mueller appointed Andrew Weissmann as one of his top advisers, many of us warned that it was a…

Washingtonian Magazine has included me among the most influential persons on public policy … and made public a terrible secret…

There has been a notable shift toward more and more extreme rhetoric in the media from predicting that democracy will…

Below is my column in The Hill on the first week of testimony in the Trump trial. It is making…

Last night, I had the pleasure of attending the White House Correspondents’ Dinner at the Washington Hilton. This dinner was…

Nina Jankowicz  is back . . . with a vengeance. The former head of the infamous “Disinformation Governance Board” within…

A student leader at Columbia is under fire this week over a newly-resurfaced video declaring that “Zionists don’t deserve to…

Below is my column in the New York Post on yesterday’s oral arguments on presidential immunity. As expected, with the…

The University of Southern California (USC) is under fire this week after announcing that it had a solution to the possible…

C-Span/YouTube Screenshot I will confess that there are at times a level of contempt expressed in my columns. However, today…

Yesterday, Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) had a much covered interaction with CNN’s Manu Raju who asked him about Trump’s criminal…

Below is an expanded version of my column in the New York Post on the start of the Trump trial…

Professor Shai Davidai, an assistant professor at Columbia Business School, was reportedly denied access to the main campus on Friday…

Below is my column in The Hill on the man who lit himself on fire outside of the New York…

The London police are under fire this week for threatening to arrest a man wearing a kippah near a pro-Palestinian…

We have often discussed how cities and universities will use the threat of protests to block or shutdown free speech,…

Drs. Ragda Izar and Afaf Moustafa caused a controversy recently at UCLA medical school after publicly rationalizing the self-immolation in…

A year ago, Stanford University was embroiled in controversy after federal appellate Judge Kyle Duncan was shouted down by law…

Cornell Professor Randy O. Wayne has filed a criminal complaint against Monica Cornejo, an assistant professor of interpersonal communication, for…

President Joe Biden has been long accused of false stories that have ranged from an invented arrest with Nelson Mandela to a zombie-like…

It appears that National Public Radio has solved the problem of the intolerance for opposing views, detailed in an article…

Monica Cornejo, an assistant professor of interpersonal communication, was forcibly removed from a Cornell University event this week after disrupting…

Today, the U.S. Supreme Court will take up Fischer v. United States, a case that could fundamentally change many cases…

NPR has been faced with a torrent of criticism over its bias and intolerance for opposing views in programming, including…

Below is my column in the New York Post on the start of the Trump trial today in New York.…

Below is my column in The Hill on the growing controversy over NPR and the government subsidy of its programming.…

This weekend, I wrote a column on the continuing controversy at NPR and the bias detailed in a recent bombshell…

While some legal analysts continue to boost Hunter Biden’s legal claims, the reviews in actual courts are far less glowing.…

We recently discussed the students who conducted a protest inside the home of Berkeley Dean Erwin Chemerinsky and his wife,…

Kyle Benjamin Douglas Calvert, 26, has become the latest Antifa member arrested for alleged political violence. Calvert is accused in…

UC Berkeley’s law school dean, Erwin Chemerinsky, and his wife, law professor Catherine Fisk, faced a bizarre scene this week…

I have been a criminal defense attorney for my entire career, but there is a case out of Berkeley, California…

In a scathing account from within National Public Radio (NPR), Senior Editor Uri Berliner blasted the company for open political…

There has been much discussion about the controversial mandatory lecture for first-year medical students at the University of California Los…

For years, we have discussed the failure of universities to take actions against faculty and students shutting down events or…

Hogg created a group in the aftermath of the 2022 midterm elections to elect Generation Z politicians to offices throughout…

Below is my column in The Hill on the recent disruptions of events featuring leading Democrats from President Joe Biden…

Below is my column in the New York Post on the recent rebuke of the Justice Department by a federal…

D.C. Circuit Judge Reggie Walton recently caused a stir in Washington after doing an interview with CNN in which he…

We have another successful “deplatforming” of a speaker at a university this week after Rep. Mike Collins (R-GA) had to…

There is a curious resolution of a civil right complaint against University of Minnesota Law School over a diversity fellowship…

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) continues to resist disclosing information on claimed side effects and problems with…

University of Maryland President Darryll Pines has joined the ignoble line of educators and administrators enabling the growing anti-free speech…

Various groups are demanding the resignation or firing of Walter Isaacson, former CEO of CNN and the Aspen Institute, after…

Yousaf bizarrely claimed that critics have ignored that the legal threshold of “the new offences is very, very high indeed.…

The White House Counsel’s office has been headed by some of Washington’s most revered legal figures from Lloyd Cutler to…

We have previously discussed the growing anti-free speech movement in Scotland with the expanding criminalization of political and religious speech.…

Despite hours of argument by the counsel for Hunter Biden, U.S. District Court Judge Mark Scarsi denied his eight motions…

Below is my column in the Hill on the return of the Comstock Act to the national debate. The controversial…

It is a familiar pattern. Media outlets pick sides in a legal dispute and then distort the merits of the…

It often seems like there is nothing left today that is not a battleground over our political and social differences.…

Happy Easter to everyone celebrating the holiday today.  Despite my kids being older, the bunny still came to the Turley…

Yesterday, I shared some observations on the lovely town of Ketchum near Sun Valley, Idaho. Before I flew back to…

This morning, Res Ipsa passed the 80,000,000 mark in views on the blog.  We have used these moments to give…

House Oversight Committee chairman James Comer has sent a seven-page letter (below) to invite President Joe Biden to testify in…

Today I am returning from Sun Valley, Idaho and, as promised, I wanted to share a travel blog on this…

The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has blocked border enforcement by the state under Texas’s SB…

New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan this week became the latest court to impose a gag order on former…

Below is my column in the New York Post on a reported plan of the Democratic National Committee and allied…

For years, I have maintained that January 6th was a disgraceful riot but not an insurrection. That issue came to…

Below is my column on the three major free speech cases heard by the Supreme Court in the last month.…

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has finally broken her silence with CNN. Willis insisted that she has done nothing…

I have the pleasure of speaking this week on my forthcoming book, The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in the Age…

This week, parents of students at the University of California at Berkeley took the extreme step of hiring private security…

Below is my column on Fox.com for the hearing this week on the corruption scandal involving the Biden family. For…

The New York Post has created a stir in Washington with its report that a whistleblower claims that the CIA…

C-Span/YouTube Screenshot Michael Cohen was back in court this week and it did not go well.  The former fixer for…

The wealth tax is back.  We have previously discussed the constitutional and policy concerns surrounding the push by Democrats like…

We previously discussed New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s effort to effectively ban guns (both open carry and concealed) with…

The Associated Press (AP) is reportedly looking at a possible lawsuit after a bombshell article on GOP Ohio Senate candidate…

Below is my column in the Hill on the recent decision in Georgia and the “odor of mendacity” raising out…

Happy St. Patrick’s Day to all of the leprechauns of the blog from the Turley Clan. The leprechauns came to…

We previously discussed the controversy surrounding Rachael Rollins, the former U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts nominated by President Biden who was…

Today is the birthday of our greatest Framer and the genius behind our Constitution: James Madison. He would have been…

George Masson Professor Bethany Letiecq is at the center of a firestorm of controversy over his article in the Journal of…

Below is my column in the New York Post on the ruling in the Willis/Wade controversy. The references to the…

There is a controversy brewing in the City of College Park, Maryland over its “racial equity” leader Kayla Aliese Carter,…

We have previously discussed the unrelenting attacks by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his allies on free speech. There…

Below is my column in Fox.com on the superseding indictment of Sen. Bob Menendez (D., N.J.), who faces new charges…

One of the long-standing unanswered questions from the January 6th riot has been why the Capitol was so poorly prepared…

Below is my column in the Hill on the real possibility of a federal trial of former president Donald Trump…

Special Counsel David Weiss has filed a blistering opposition to the motion to dismiss by Hunter Biden in California that…

In the old days, Jeremy Pauley of Thompson, 42,  would have been called a “grave digger” or “body snatcher.” However,…

Below is my column in the New York Post on the State of the Union and how it played to…

It took just three days. After drag performer RuPaul announced the creation of a “no censorship” Allstora bookstore, censorship was…

Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., has a right to be a tad confused.  The senator noted the matter-of-fact coverage by The…

According to The Jerusalem Post and other sites, an Israeli physics professor’s lecture at the University  of Nevada (Las Vegas) was shutdown…

Below is my column in USA Today on the unanimous decision of the Supreme Court to reject the disqualification of…

Below is my column in the New York Post on the expanding controversy surrounding the disqualification of Fani Willis and…

Calling it “one on a huge list of priorities,” Rep. Jamie Raskin (D., Md.) announced that he will be reintroducing…

Below is my column in the Hill on a controversial criminal case involving a conservative journalist who was arrested after…

In its affidavit supporting criminal charges, the Justice Department showed   Air Force lieutenant colonel Larry Rendall Brock on the Senate…

Below is a slightly expanded version of my column on Fox.com on the attacks on the Court for granting review…

Washington Post writer Maura Judkis is under fire this week for a column in which she mocks shoplifting stories as…

We have been discussing the alarming shift in higher education in favor of censorship and speech regulations. These voices have…

Texas billionaire John Arnold has long held a notorious position for many in the free speech community as the financier…

Yesterday, the Supreme Court granted review of the presidential immunity question, but set an expedited schedule for the review of…

We recently discussed the call by MSNBC contributor and former Democratic Senator Claire McCaskill for the media to stop fact…

Below is my column in the New York Post on the closed door deposition of Hunter Biden.  After years of…

Below is my column in new research published in the Washington Post that turned up an interesting case involving the…

Former New York Times editor Adam Rubenstein has a lengthy essay at The Atlantic that pulls back the curtain on…

One of the most interesting dynamics in this election is the impact of third party candidates from Robert F. Kennedy…

There is a lot of chatter this morning about the interview of Hunter Biden with Axios before his appearance in…

In the movie Friends with Benefits, the character Jamie asks Dylan “why do I get the feeling this is the…

MSNBC contributor and former Democratic Senator Claire McCaskill has been one of the most vocal voices attacking critics of Joe…

President Joe Biden held a press event to brag about a major accomplishment this week. That itself is hardly surprising…

Below is my column in The Hill on the trouble brewing at CBS over the seizure of the files of…

(Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz) We have been writing about the alarming record of the Biden dogs attacking…

Below is my column in the New York Post on the indictment of Alexander Smirnov and the use of the…

Below is my column in the New York Post on the confiscatory fines imposed on former president Donald Trump and…

Below is my column in Fox.com on the flurry of recent filings by Hunter Biden who appears to be channeling…

Below is my column on Fox.com on the demand for roughly a $455 million dollar deposit or equivalent bond for…

Below is my column in The Hill on the $355 million verdict against Trump and his corporation in New York.…

Dauphin County Magisterial District Judge Sonya M. McKnight, 57, is facing a case of modus operandi this week. However, the…

According to the New York Times, Kevin Morris “quietly pushed a complex theory under which the repair shop was a…

We have previously discussed the increasingly aggressive role of the White House Counsel’s Office (WHCO) in defending President Joe Biden,…

I have written about the disastrous policies of Mayor Brandon Johnson for Chicago.  As a native son, it is hard…

Below is a slightly expanded version of my column on Fox.com on the hearing in Georgia over allegations of improper…

Below is a slightly expanded version of my New York Post column on the report that President Joe Biden, not…

There is a disturbing report published on Michael Shellenberger’s Public Substack detailing how the U.S. intelligence community called upon foreign governments…

We have been covering the backlash against Disney over its social and political agenda as well as the recent loss…

Below is my column in the New York Post on the testimony of Biden associate Rob Walker, who confirmed details…

Last year, we discussed a Democratic candidate (Will Rollins) for Congress who was running on an anti-free speech pledge to…

The University of California (San Francisco) is under fire this week after hosting a racist speaker who attacked white people…

Below is my column in the New York Post on the move of the Biden White House to shift work…

Below is my column in The Hill on the applicability of the 25th Amendment to remove President Joe Biden in…

Below is my Fox.com column on the shift of fortunes for former president Donald Trump in the last week. Trump…

Florida this month may be forcing the question of whether the people prefer cattle or capitalism. A bill in the…

“That is not the judgment of the press.” Those words from President Joe Biden were a telling moment after a…

There was a notable filing in the ongoing scandal in Georgia over the intimate relationship between Fulton County District Attorney…

This week, the argument before the Supreme Court in Trump v. Anderson captivated the nation as the justices considered the…

It has been 65 years since Hawaii became a state, but the Hawaiian Supreme Court appears to be having second…

In a welcomed move, Dartmouth has reversed its decision to stop using Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) scores in admissions. Many…

This morning I will be joining the live coverage of the Supreme Court of the arguments over the disqualification of…

We have been discussing the decline of public education as more families are seeking alternatives in home schooling and voucher…

This week, the House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government issued a new report on the Biden Administration’s massive…

Sample Florida License A move by the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles could present a long-awaited test…

The House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government on Monday revealed yet another facet of the Biden Administration’s sprawling censorship system…

This week, Frank Star Comes Out, president of the Oglala Sioux Tribe, announced that the South Dakota tribe had banished…

Below is my column in The Hill on the worsening situation at the Southern border and how the Supreme Court…

Shellyne Rodriguez, the machete-wielding former Hunter College professor, has now been fired by the Cooper Union college. The school previously…

For most of us, climate activists throwing soup at the Mona Lisa and gluing themselves to art only makes environmentalists…

We previously discussed the lawsuit of Dr. Zack K. De Piero against Penn State over an alleged hostile work environment…

In today’s academic environment, there often seems a race to racialize common practices or terminology. Publications clamor for such articles…

Yesterday, the U.S. Capitol Police announced that there would be no criminal charges after a former aide to Sen. Ben…

Below is my column in Fox.com on the recent suggestion that Justice Sonia Sotomayor should step aside for a younger…

While there are a few monetary provisions, the lack of a payment to residents will likely not sit well with…

Below is an expanded version of my column in the New York Post on the rather bizarre filing of Hunter…

Last year, I criticized the lawsuit of Disney against Florida after losing its special status in the former Reedy Creek…

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) yesterday called for the denaturalization of Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) after a controversial speech was…

In Jon Ronson’s book “Men Who Stare at Goats,” one member of a wacky new Age, unconventional warfare unit explains,…

The group’s founder Medea Benjamin said that it has led many of the pro-Palestinian protests and demanded an investigation of…

The Russians are back just in time for another election. Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi declared on Sunday that pro-Palestinian…

Below is my column in The Hill on the legal and legislative actions taken with regard to increasing numbers of…

The new CEO for National Public Radio (NPR) has become instant news over social media postings that she deleted before…

Independent movie critic Louis Chilton has caused considerable controversy with a recent column raising concerns over Oppenheimer, a film that…

Below is my column in the New York Post on the recent deposition of Kevin Morris, counsel for Hunter Biden.…

It takes a lot to get me to raise fairness concerns over former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo. I was…

Today, the state of Alabama will try again to kill Kenneth Eugene Smith. In one of the most bizarre capital…

On Wednesday, I received a letter from Bryan M. Sullivan, a partner at Early Sullivan Wright Gizer & McRae LLP,…

Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows lost another attempt to force review of her disqualification “decision” before the United States…

The University of Wisconsin-Madison is at the center of another controversy this week over its diversity training program. The mandatory…

Two years ago, I wrote a column denouncing Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s use of a counter-terrorism law to shut…

It appears that Anthony Comstock is having something of a revival in Oklahoma. The founder of the New York Society…

In an editorial fit for The Onion or the Babylon Bee, Los Angeles Times’ letters editor Paul Thornton wrote a…

“Who was the real me? I can only repeat: I was a man of many faces.” Those words by author…

For years, we have been following the bizarre murder-for-hire case involving the fatal shooting of Florida State University law professor…

In my torts class, we discuss the often uncertain line between ordinary citizens and public figures.  The latter classification places…

As many of you know, my book The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in the Age of Rage is scheduled for release…

Sahara Dula, 24, is a New England College criminal justice graduate who wants to specialize in “crisis communication.” If so,…

The Daily Pennsylvanian student newspaper this week ran a story on how some faculty members are panicked at what they…

In a surprising filing, Fulton County’s district attorney Fani Willis has accused the estranged wife of her alleged lover of…

Chris Christie once said that Donald Trump is often portrayed by legal counsel as “the unluckiest S.O.B. in the world.” Perhaps, but…

Below is my column in the New York Post on discovery of cocaine on the pouch holding Hunter Biden’s gun.…

Below is my column on Fox.com on the recent filing of the Justice Department confirming the authenticity of Hunter Biden’s…

Screenshot We previously discussed the false story pushed by the Biden Administration and the media of border agents whipping migrants…

Today, the Supreme Court will hear two of the most important cases of the term. At issue is the continued…

In an early glimpse of what to expect from coverage of this election, MSNBC and CNN hosts went into full…