JonathanTurley

APRIL 3, 2023

Here is the column: The 2024 presidential campaign technically began months ago with the first announced candidates. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg boasted during his 2021 campaign about being best suited to go after Trump, and he is making good on his boast with a highly dubious bootstrapped legal theory.

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APRIL 27, 2022

The list of civil cases includes the ongoing investigation by New York Attorney General Letitia James into whether he falsely inflated the value of his assets in annual financial statements. However, after a lifetime of crime, corruption, and impunity, the criminal law may finally be catching up with the Houdini of white-collar crime.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 6, 2024

Those conversations allegedly occurred as late as January 2024 with Cindi Lee Yeager, a co-chief deputy district attorney for Cobb County. Willis ran against a district attorney accused of using his office to pursue sexual affairs and continues to claim that she “restored integrity” to her office through ethical leadership.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Judge Aileen Cannon has scheduled a trial for May 20, 2024, but that could easily move with additional delays or appeals in the case. Moreover, the new Attorney General could scuttle or undermine the prosecution. The problem for Smith is that a trial after the election could mean no trial at all.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 21, 2024

” That is hardly a promising review before Cohen appears as the star witness for Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg in the prosecution of former president Donald Trump. Despite at least a multiple such sources, Cohen has insisted, “I was extremely proud to be the personal attorney for the president of the United States of America.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 24, 2024

Below is an expanded version of my column in the New York Post on the start of the Trump trial and much awaited explanation of District Attorney Alvin Bragg on the underlying alleged criminal conduct. The Trump cases have highlighted a couple of New York’s absurdly ambiguous laws.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

All of the three main players — Trump, Attorney General Merrick Garland, and Special Counsel Jack Smith — will face immediate challenges in the legal arms race unfolding in Washington. His announced intention to run for the presidency in 2024 may have expedited the appointment of a special counsel. Former President Trump.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 12, 2023

The discovery (and later addition of a second batch of classified material at a second location) is magnifying the inherently conflicted position of Attorney General Merrick Garland. Attorney John Lausch for investigation. On Monday, during a state visit to Mexico, Biden declined to answer questions from reporters.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 20, 2023

5 voice mail at Chutkan’s chambers in which she called her a racial slur and threatened her, saying, “If Trump doesn’t get elected in 2024, we are coming to kill you, so tread lightly, b—-.” Abigail Jo Shry, 43, of Alvin, Tex., allegedly left an Aug. ” That hardly jives with the ricin and traveling arsenal.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 21, 2023

The scene from the 1931 movie “Frankenstein” came to mind this week as Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg prepared an indictment of former President Donald Trump. Trump were seeking a way to prove the political weaponization of the criminal justice system, Bragg just fulfilled that narrative. Here is the column: “It’s moving.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 16, 2022

Below is my column in USA Today on the diminishing role of Attorney General Merrick Garland at the Justice Department after a series of controversies. ” If one image sums up the incredibly shrinking stature of Attorney General Merrick Garland, it is that line in the aftermath of the Mar-a-Lago search. Unlike the U.S.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 10, 2023

He could wait to see if Biden does not run for reelection or loses in 2024. It is the type of question that Attorney General Merrick Garland should be eager to answer. Jonathan Turley is an attorney and professor at George Washington University Law School.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 1, 2023

However, a FARA charge would be embarrassing to both President Biden and Attorney General Merrick Garland. What’s more, efforts to conceal influence peddling are often criminal acts, including FARA violations. A criminal charge could put such motives before a jury — and the American public. What happens then is anyone’s guess.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 30, 2023

Below is my column in The Messenger on the early struggle of Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis to preserve her strategy of holding a mass 19-person trial over the 2020 election case involving former president Donald Trump. The hearing on the removal gave a glimpse into the case. In Washington, U.S.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 13, 2023

With a 76-year-old client, the defense attorneys have to play a perfect game. Indeed, the defense has charged that prosecutor Jay Bratt suggested that the Justice Department might sink Nauta attorney Stanley Woodward’s application for a federal judgeship unless his client cooperates and changes his testimony.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 22, 2022

It will be the fifth chance for Attorney General Merrick Garland to take a modest step to assure concerned citizens over the basis or motivation for the raid. Instead, the government scooped up everything, from passports to attorney-client material. Garland’s third opportunity came with the raid itself.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 17, 2023

Thus, the odds of Trump going to prison could well be the same as the odds of him or another Republican winning the 2024 presidential election. Acting Assistant Attorney General Mary Lawton issued the three-page memo , which was lacking both depth and support. Currently, those odds are roughly even. Pardons are no different.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 13, 2022

…So there is both a national security angle and a potentially criminal angle and the most encouraging thing to me because I’m worried about accountability so that we don’t have a repeat of all of these things in 2024 of the attempted coup and insurrection.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 20, 2023

The New York indictment, led by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, is the weakest. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’ demand to try all 19 defendants together in six months is wildly unrealistic. Yet, there is still a great deal of runway between the arraignments and any incarceration.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 11, 2023

It will be difficult to get through a trial before the 2024 presidential election. The 2024 election could become a referendum on this case. Jonathan Turley, an attorney, constitutional law scholar and legal analyst, is the Shapiro Chair for Public Interest Law at The George Washington University Law School.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 11, 2024

The political culture of short selling is nowhere more evident than in the “ballot-cleansing” efforts of Democratic officials and activists to remove Trump’s name from 2024 ballots as well as to remove primary opponents against Biden.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 20, 2023

attorney for the District of Delaware. At the same time, Attorney General Merrick Garland has steadfastly ignored the obvious basis for the appointment of a special counsel despite repeated references to the President as an intended recipient of influence peddling proceeds. Take t he investigation of David Weiss, the U.S.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Ashley’s a member and mentor, as you heard, of the Alberta Association of Professional Paralegals and an associate member of the Edmonton Law Office Managers Association. My background is primarily working in criminal law, and I typically work in a very small firm, and your lawyer is always off at court. Education M.Ed.,

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MARCH 8, 2023

The members repeatedly used the hearing to make a pitch for the midterm and 2024 elections. Chansley reaffirms the old expression among defense attorneys: “One day on the cover of Time, next day doing time.” Witnesses were used as virtual props, and the committee consistently blocked any alternative views and evidence.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 11, 2022

I previously testified in Congress on the seizure of some boxes of material at Mar-a-Lago and the authority of the National Archives to seek intervention by the attorney general to force compliance with the PRA. The PRA is rarely subject to criminal prosecution, and past prosecutions have resulted in remarkably light punishments.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 15, 2023

Here is the column: With the arraignment of Donald Trump in Miami, Department of Justice (DOJ) special counsel Jack Smith is pushing forward with a historic criminal prosecution that could result in a terminal prison sentence for the 76-year-old former president and, at least for now, the leading Republican candidate in the 2024 election.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 27, 2023

I was highly skeptical of the charges brought by Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner, who was later removed from the case due to ethical concerns. There has been much debate for the possible use of a preemptive self-pardon by Donald Trump if he were to be elected in 2024. That was done by Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, and Jimmy Carter.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 10, 2022

6 committee’s main aim is to ensure President Trump can’t run in 2024.” Indeed, much of this evidence would have been hard to refute like the deposition of former Attorney General Bill Barr on the election fraud allegations. Only eight percent answered in the affirmative while 89 percent said it made no change at all in their views.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 20, 2023

Not only could Trump be pardoned by a potential Republican president after 2024, he could grant himself a self-pardon if he won election to another presidential term. That means it cannot be another McDonnell case built on some new “boundless interpretation” by Smith of federal law.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 11, 2023

Attorney General Merrick Garland knows that many citizens no longer trust the government and his current position will only deepen those misgivings. He announced that he was compelled to appoint a special counsel on the Mar-a-Lago and other possible offenses by Trump after he officially became a candidate for the 2024 presidential election.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

The public statements of Trump alone would not make for a credible case for criminal incitement under the controlling case law. Nevertheless, District of Columbia Attorney General Karl Racine garnered widespread acclaim by announcing soon after the Jan. 6 riot that he was investigating Trump for a possible incitement charge.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 30, 2023

Some Republican presidential candidates have stated already that they will (or would consider) pardons for Trump if they are elected in 2024. Jonathan Turley, an attorney, constitutional law scholar and legal analyst, is the Shapiro Chair for Public Interest Law at The George Washington University Law School.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 31, 2021

attorney Patrick Malone, who previously filed ethics complaints against lawyers representing the Trump campaign or the Republican party. I have repeatedly asked in columns why, if incitement was so clear and public, there has yet to be a criminal charge brought against Trump. The 40-page lawsuit was written by D.C.

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