JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Simon & Schuster will release the book in June 2024, but it can be purchased now. As many of you know, I have written about free speech and constitutional rights for decades in law reviews and journals. The Constitution and the Bill of Rights were not only written for times like these, but in a time like this.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2023

UBS Securities : Under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, when a whistleblower invokes the Act and claims he was fired because of his report, his claim is “governed by the legal burdens of proof set forth in section 42121(b) of title 49, United States Code.” Please check back for updates.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Former president Donald Trump wrote on Truth Social that “Legal Scholars are extremely thankful for the Supreme Court’s Decision today to take up Presidential Immunity.” ” As I mentioned last night in the coverage, legal scholars are hardly doing a conga line in celebration. Monday, April 15, 2024.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 26, 2024

The ongoing prosecution of Trump is legally absurd but has resulted in the leading presidential candidate not only being gagged but prevented from campaigning. As the justices work on a new set of legal wings, anything is possible as the nation waits for the court to hit ground zero in the middle of the 2024 presidential election.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Should a court declare him the winner and order the start of a new four-year term — negating the 2024 election? Would the court order a vote in 2022 and then another vote in 2024? None of that is even remotely possible on a legal basis. Trump is already running in 2024. It is unclear what Trump is now demanding.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 10, 2023

He could wait to see if Biden does not run for reelection or loses in 2024. He could ask for a reconsideration of the policy, which was poorly supported during the Clinton Administration as a rationale for blocking any indictment for perjury by the Office of Legal Counsel.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 15, 2022

It would also unleash potential legal challenges. And 64% of Democrats, according to a New York Times poll , want someone other than Biden as their party’s candidate for president in 2024. However, the value of declaring a public health emergency is primarily meant to address a political emergency for Biden.

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LLRX

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Donald Trump announced his 2024 run for the presidency on Nov. In his address he railed against what he perceived as the “persecution” of himself and his family, but made scant mention of his legal woes.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 30, 2023

Trump potentially faces four major prosecutions in the District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia and New York before the 2024 election. 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

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Below is my column in the New York Post on the next step in the effort to disqualify former president Donald Trump in 2024 election. That moment will now be presented to nine justices of the United States Supreme Court after a divided decision of the Colorado Supreme Court to disqualify Donald Trump in the 2024 election.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 21, 2023

” Those words from New York Times editorial board member Mara Gay on MSNBC captured the unhinged coverage of the Colorado Supreme Court’s disqualification of Donald Trump from the 2024 election. Back in the day, it was the Democrats who were denounced for raising such legal objections.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 29, 2023

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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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 26, 2023

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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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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The Crime Report

MAY 24, 2021

New York Attorney General Letitia James’ announcement last week that her office was “actively investigating the Trump Organization in a criminal capacity” has added to the former president’s legal worries, but the biggest landmine believed to threaten his political future has yet to be detonated. Capitol on Jan. and conviction?Trump

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 17, 2021

On its face, the planned impeachment trial is at odds with the language of the Constitution, which expressly states that removal of a president is the primary purpose of such a trial. He will be a citizen and would be best served legally to forgo the trial entirely as extraconstitutional and invalid.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 11, 2023

It will be difficult to get through a trial before the 2024 presidential election. Regarding Mar-a-Lago, the reported inclusion of a charge under the Espionage Act is a bit surprising, given the novel legal issues surrounding the handling of such documents. The 2024 election could become a referendum on this case.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 9, 2024

As Democrats ramp up their efforts for the 2024 election, some are dangling an old enticement from 2020: if we win, we can pack the Court. Liberals are again stating that the Supreme Court is not fundamentally “broken” because a majority of justices do not share their views on legal questions.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

.” With gun control one of the top issues for Democrats going into this election, the polls show a growing gap with a majority of voters on the issue, particularly as crime continues to rise among the top issues for 2024. That could present an interesting dynamic going into the election in 2024.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 16, 2021

finally buried her former persona as a law professor. In a transition that began in 2011, Warren has struggled with the demands of politics that often pit her against core legal principles. From “Tax the Rich” to “Pack the Court,” Warren is now soundbite ready and principle resistant for 2024. Elizabeth Warren (D.,

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 17, 2023

Legal analysts often are asked to give the percentages on a case’s outcome or conviction. 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. President Joe Biden could make an unexpected legal move, too, however. That is not necessary.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 3, 2024

However, it wasn’t a reference to the Colorado Supreme Court’s recent 4-3 decision to disqualify Donald Trump from running in the 2024 election. At the time, another rising star in Republican legal circles was getting her start as a young law firm associate. He teaches a course on the Supreme Court and the Constitution.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 8, 2024

Below is my column in The Hill on the Valley Forge speech of President Joe Biden kicking off his 2024 campaign. That line, from the speech of President Joe Biden at Valley Forge this week, may have been the most accurate observation in the entire address kicking off Biden’s 2024 campaign.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 28, 2023

It could avoid a review by the Supreme Court by effectively mooting the case if the Supreme Court simply lets the clock run past January 5, 2024. With the appeal filed, Donald Trump will be included as a candidate on Colorado’s 2024 Presidential Primary Ballot when certification occurs on Jan. 5, 2024, unless the U.S.

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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

APRIL 3, 2023

Here is the column: The 2024 presidential campaign technically began months ago with the first announced candidates. The New York indictment of Trump has been widely criticized as politically motivated and legally flawed. But it too would likely be pending by Election Day 2024. His investigation of Trump’s role in the Jan.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 22, 2023

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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JonathanTurley

MARCH 31, 2021

Eric Swalwell against former President Donald Trump as a serious miscalculation that could result in a legal vindication for Trump either on the trial or appellate levels. In my view, the lawsuit contravenes free speech as well as controlling case law from the Supreme Court. I recently wrote about the lawsuit by Rep.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 8, 2021

After all, an array of legal experts has insisted for months that this was clear criminal incitement, not an exercise of free speech. Second, Swalwell must show that Trump was the factual and legal cause of his claimed injuries. One might think this would be a lead-pipe cinch of a case.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 27, 2023

He now believes that former President Donald Trump can be barred from running for president in 2024 because he “committed treason,” according to a new column in The Guardian. I publicly condemned President Trump ’s speech that day while it was being given — and I denounced the riot as a “ constitutional desecration.”

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 5, 2024

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. Scott Perry. He accuses Perry of supporting challenges to Biden’s election and opposing its certification.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 26, 2023

In a brief order, they emphasized that doing so “will allow the matter to proceed before the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit for review in the ordinary course and in advance of the 2024 congressional elections in Louisiana.” The justices sent Carnahan v. Therefore, he would have granted Waleski’s petition for review.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 12, 2024

The pitch would be more compelling if Democratic activists were not trying to remove Trump from 2024 ballots and Democratic leaders in Florida, North Carolina and other states are refusing to allow other candidates to run against Biden in the primary. Many things will be on the ballot in 2024, but democracy is not one of them.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 6, 2022

Electoral disqualification systems are generally anathema to democratic values, but some in the United States are now toying with the idea for the 2022 or 2024 elections. I publicly condemned President Trump ’s speech that day while it was being given — and I denounced the riot as a “ constitutional desecration.”

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 7, 2023

Speech as Conduct In addition to my book coming out in 2024 (“The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in the Age of Rage”), I have a law review article coming out that deals with the treatment of speech as conduct. The second indictment is based on the same basic model in my view. It also ignores one other threshold element.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 28, 2023

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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JonathanTurley

MARCH 6, 2024

Below is my column in USA Today on the unanimous decision of the Supreme Court to reject the disqualification of former president Donald Trump from the 2024 election. Here is the column: “Nothing in the Constitution requires that we endure such chaos.” The lumberjack school of constitutional law is the rage on our campuses.

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