SCOTUSBlog
APRIL 18, 2024
Share In the final argument scheduled for its 2023-2024 term, the Supreme Court will hear argument on Thursday in former President Donald Trump’s historic bid for criminal immunity. The question before the justices is whether Trump can be tried on criminal charges that he conspired to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
JonathanTurley
APRIL 26, 2024
With cliffs to the left and the right, the justices are looking at a free-fall dive into the scope of constitutional and criminal law as they apply to presidential conduct. The government insisted there is an exception for such acts from the murder statute. They may be looking not for a foothold as much as a shorter drop.
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JonathanTurley
DECEMBER 27, 2023
The department denied Guastello’s application for another liquor license based on the statute’s mandate that no person convicted of a liquor law violation could receive a liquor license. 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.
JonathanTurley
MARCH 18, 2024
In New York, the legislature changed the statute of limitations to allow Trump to be sued while New York Attorney General Letitia James effectively ran on a pledge of selectively prosecuting him. She never specified any particular crime, just promising to bag Trump.
JonathanTurley
AUGUST 9, 2022
Elias was not alone citing the possible use of a Section 2071 charge to block Trump’s expected presidential run in 2024. There is ample reason to doubt that the presidency would be deemed barred by statute in this fashion. The same is presumably true under Article II when it comes to the chief executive.
SCOTUSBlog
APRIL 25, 2024
During more than two-and-a-half hours of oral argument, some of the court’s conservative justices expressed concern about the prospect that, if former presidents do not have immunity, federal criminal laws could be used to target political opponents. trial forward before the 2024 election.
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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