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Yielding to Temptation: Colorado’s Supreme Court Blocks Democracy to Bar Trump on the 2024 Ballot

JonathanTurley

Below is my column in The Messenger of the Colorado Supreme Court decision disqualifying former President Donald Trump from the 2024 election. Eleni Kounalakis publicly called upon the Secretary of State to “explore every legal option” to follow the same path as Colorado. In California, Lieutenant Gov.

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Biden’s Break-The-Glass Option: Pardon Hunter and Withdraw from the 2024 Election

JonathanTurley

Facing an impeachment inquiry , low public support , and a son in the legal dock, Biden could use the case to close out his political career. 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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Jack Smith’s War on Free Speech: Attorney General Garland Should Rein in His Special Counsel

JonathanTurley

The court dismissed the “tawdry tales” offered by the DOJ and declared that it was far more concerned with the damage that Smith was causing to the legal system with his virtually limitless interpretation of criminality. Some of us have previously denounced the gag order issued by U.S.

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The Supreme Court Holds to Regular Order for the New Year

JonathanTurley

For too many legal experts, Trump offers the release of rage and the ability to adopt of the same dismissive, cavalier attitude of others when it comes to legal rights. However, if the Trump name appears in the caption of a case, many legal experts suddenly jettison all due process concerns or sense of restraint.

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Ballot Cleansing: Democrats are Moving to Bar Republicans from Ballots Nationwide

JonathanTurley

Here is the column: As the decisions disqualifying former President Donald Trump from the 2024 election work their way through the courts, a new filing in Pennsylvania seeks the same “ballot cleansing” by barring Republican Rep. Jonathan Turley is an attorney and professor at George Washington University Law School.

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Ragefully Wrong: A Response to Professor Laurence Tribe

JonathanTurley

There was a time when legal disagreements could be passionate but not personal. Now even law deans have called Supreme Court justices “hacks” to the delight of their followers. I was singled out on this occasion for Tribe’s latest personal attack because I voiced a legal opinion different from his own.

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The Guardians of Democracy: Democrats Move to Protect Democracy from Itself

JonathanTurley

I have long criticized this theory as legally and historically unfounded. Some national polls show Trump as the most popular candidate for the 2024 election, while a few show Biden slightly ahead. The 2024 election could well prove the end to democracy — if these efforts succeeded in purging ballots of opposing candidates.

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