Blog Profile / Jonathan Turley
| URL : | http://jonathanturley.org/ | |
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| Filed Under: | News | |
| Posts on Regator: | 3723 | |
| Posts / Week: | 33.8 | |
| Archived Since: | May 9, 2011 | |
Blog Post Archive
Court Rules That Waffle House CEO Violated His Privacy
Cobb County Superior Court Judge Robert Leonard rule last Friday that a former housekeeper who filmed sex with former Waffle House CEO Joe Rogers had violated his privacy. The housekeeper, Mye Brindle, alleged that Rogers forced her to perform sex acts as a condition for her continued employment. Brindle made 15 audio recordings and kept […]
Detroit Jury Deadlocks In Case Of Police Officer Who Shot 7-Year-Old Girl In The Head
The jury had deadlocked in the trial of Officer Joseph Weekley who is accused of involuntary manslaughter in the death of Aiyana Stanley-Jones, 7, who was shot in the head during a raid on her home. The producer for the reality show “The First 48 Hours” is also charged in the case. Weekley, 37, was […]
Tennessee Judge Under Fire For Encouraging Female Lawyers To Dress Professionally
Circuit Judge Royce Taylor in Murfreesboro, Tennessee is embroiled in an interesting controversy after he urged female attorneys to dress appropriately in courthouses. It is common for judges to instruct male attorneys on the need to wear jackets, ties, and appropriate shoes. However, for a male judge to write a memo on female dress is […]
West Virginia Teenage Facing Charge Over NRA T-Shirt
We previously discussed the case of Jared Marcum, 14, who was suspended and arrested for wearing a t-shirt supporting the Second Amendment and the National Rifle Association. While many of us derided arrest of a student (and the continuation of a trend toward criminalizing our schools), most people assumed that some adult supervision would kick […]
Change We Can Believe In: Meet Aidan Turley, the Kent Gardens Elementary President
Many of us have been distraught over the attacks on privacy and the press by the Obama Administration as well as authoritarian turn taken by presidents in Egypt and Turkey. I am pleased to announce that I have finally found a president who is not only a reformer but completely free of special interest influence. […]
Doublethinking Transparency: Obama Proclaims Secret NSA Program Entirely “Transparent” To A Secret Court With Secret Legal Interpretations And Known Only To His Administration
President Barack Obama assured the American people yesterday that the NSA warrantless surveillance programs are entirely “transparent.” He then promised to extradite and prosecute the man who told the public about it. None of that causes any pause for the White House or its supporters. It makes perfect sense. Indeed, it helps explain how Obama […]
Texas Police Allegedly Arrest Mother Who Simply Asks To See Warrant Before They Enter Home To Arrest Son
There is an extraordinary case out of Texas involving a mother who was reportedly arrested for simply asking to see a warrant before police could enter her home to arrest her son. What is most remarkable to this story is that the family’s lawyer told the media that the Slaton Police Department was only willing […]
Egypt Beats and Kills Protesters Against Authoritarian Power . . . The United States Responds With $1.3 Billion In Military Aid For Government
This week President Barack Obama ordered the intervention into yet another war after Syria crossed his “red line” by using chemical weapons against his own people. However, over in Egypt, denying basic human rights appears no barrier to U.S. aid. In the very same week as using human rights to justify another intervention, the Obama […]
China Air — You Pack’Em, We Smack’Em
A passenger reportedly on a China Air flight looked out and got a rare glimpse into the attitude of Chinese freight handlers. What is remarkable is that this guy was averaging less than a 30 percent hit ratio — often throwing three boxes without any making it on the conveyor belt. This makes “United Breaks […]
Senators Call For U.S. Intervention In Another War
While Senators could not be troubled to go to a simple briefing on the NSA warrantless surveillance program and some like South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham shrugged off the importance of privacy, the same Senators are demanding the intervention into yet another war in the Middle East. It does not matter that we have […]
The Price of Silence: Supreme Court Rules That Pre-Miranda Silence Can Be Used Against Defendant To Prove Guilt
In a major loss for individual rights vis-a-vis the police, the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that prosecutors could use a person’s silence against them in court if it comes before he’s told of his right to remain silent. The prosecutors used the silence of Genovevo Salinas to convict him of a 1992 murder. Because this […]
New York Man Finds Four Vandals Destroying Home, Forces Them Into Closet Until Police Arrives . . . And Then Then Arrested For Endangering The Vandals
Jesse R. Daniels, age 53, has a right to be a bit confused. He heard vandals destroying his father-in-law’s house that they were remodeling next door in the Village of Clyde. He told his wife to call police and he ran over an confronted the intruder. He found four young boys with hammers who destroyed […]
When Paranoia and Police Powers Meet: Erdogan Denounces International Media Conspiracy
Paranoia and police power are never a good combination, but Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan appears to have readily embraced both. With thousands protesting his destruction of the secular traditions of Turkey and authoritarian power, Erdogan has called on his Islamic supporters, crushed protesters with tear gas and clubs, and now blamed an international […]
Medieval Birchbark Drawings From Novgorod Show Boy Doodling Pictures With Swords: Will “Onfim” Be Retroactively Suspended?
Yesterday, I was killing myself i the Shenandoah by climbing “Old Rag” near Luray, Virginia — a six hour rock climb that has left me only semi-mobile this morning. This, therefore, will have to suffice as a belated Father’s Day posting. The picture above may look like every stick drawing of a boy and his […]
Plastic Fantastic Re-recycled and the Hazards of a New Age in Technology
by Gene Howington, Guest Blogger Since the last story on additive manufacturing and plastic guns, there have been a few developments. On June 12 in New York City, Council Member Lewis Fidler (D-Brooklyn) submitted a bill to amend the New York administrative code to make it illegal to use a 3D printer to create any […]
Marketing Misery For Fun And Profit
By Mark Esposito, Guest Blogger The flyer came in the mail the other day. Tucked between the Lowes ad and the light bill ( I love that anachronism for the electric bill) were photographs of three emaciated children of color living in obvious squalor in an undisclosed Third World hell hole. The bold caption read” […]
Today’s Birthday 15 July: The Magna Carta
“The democratic aspiration is no mere recent phase in human history... It was written in Magna Carta.” –Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Third Inaugural address (1941) On this date, July 15, in the year 1215 AD, the King of England was an involuntary “guest” of a group of forty rather angry Barons in a […]
It’s What You Do, Not What You Say
-Submitted by David Drumm (Nal) Guest Blogger On Friday, President Obama gave a speech concerning the collection of metadata by the NSA. Obama said “So, I want to be very clear—some of the hype that we’ve been hearing over the last day or so—nobody is listening to the content of people’s phone calls.” This is […]
Guide Dog Trainee Saves Trainers
-Submitted by David Drumm (Nal), Guest Blogger O’Neil, a yellow lab guide dog, and two trainers, one wearing a blindfold, were walking down a sidewalk in San Rafael, California. Note that O’Neil alerts to a car driven by a 93-year-old in the nick of time. H/T: Mano Singham, Marin Independent Journal.