JonathanTurley

MAY 18, 2024

Nadine Strossen , former president of the American Civil Liberties Union “Brilliant and intellectually honest, Jonathan Turley has few peers as a legal scholar today. Barr , former Attorney General and author of the No. Will , Pulitzer Prize winner and Washington Post columnist. Mukasey , former Attorney General and U.S.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 19, 2024

Here is the column: Chris Christie once said that Donald Trump is often portrayed by legal counsel as “the unluckiest S.O.B. While a recusal or removal of Willis may delay the case, it will not end the legal threat for Trump. in the world.” Wade also has been held in contempt in his messy divorce.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Eleni Kounalakis publicly called upon the Secretary of State to “explore every legal option” to follow the same path as Colorado. In December 1865 many in Washington were shocked to see Alexander Stephens, the Confederacy’s onetime vice president, waiting to take the same oath that he took before joining the Southern rebellion.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 5, 2024

Of course, he ignores Democratic members who sought to block certification of Republican presidents under the very same law with no factual or legal basis. With the support of elected officials across the country, they can then join Stilp in moving from burning flags to torching the Constitution in a fit of exhilarating rage.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

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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AUGUST 18, 2023

As I myself covered the indictment as a legal analyst for Fox, I once again felt a certain longing for the abandon shown by some of my counterparts who dismissed any concern over what are now roughly 100 criminal charges against former President Donald Trump in four different indictments. His fellow committee member, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.),

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 9, 2023

Notably, the New York Times has reported that Biden has had his own Thomas Becket moments in telling aides that he wanted Trump indicted and criticizing the Attorney General Merrick Garland for the delay. Biden also denied that Hunter Biden received any money from China, which the Washington Post now declares to be manifestly untrue.

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DECEMBER 3, 2023

The testimony put the controversial demands of New York Attorney General James into sharp relief. The charges brought by New York State Attorney General Letitia James were curious from the start. Below is my column in The Messenger on the recent testimony of bankers in the Trump fraud trial.

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AUGUST 26, 2023

However, the greatest case for an impeachment inquiry was made by Attorney General Merrick Garland himself. the case for an inquiry came from a most unlikely source: Attorney General Merrick Garland. the case for an inquiry came from a most unlikely source: Attorney General Merrick Garland.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

It is a dangerous erosion of separation between the White House and the president’s personal legal team. Indeed, it is that very clarity that many in Washington may fear the most from this inquiry. It may not result in an impeachment, but it will result in greater clarity.

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AUGUST 7, 2021

After fleeing to Washington, the legislators claim that the criticism and threats made by the governor and other infringed on their constitutional rights to free speech and to petition the government for redress of grievances. It was an ironic moment as Democrats in Washington celebrated their act while they denounced filibusters.

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DECEMBER 15, 2023

These false narratives have been eagerly repeated in the media despite lacking legal or factual support. Here is the column: With the formal approval of the impeachment inquiry into the conduct of President Joe Biden, the alarm and denial in Washington has reached an almost hysterical level.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 3, 2024

As someone covering the 2000 opinion as a CBS News legal analyst at the time, I was taken aback by how the motivations and even the integrity of the justices was challenged in reaching their decision. At the time, another rising star in Republican legal circles was getting her start as a young law firm associate.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 28, 2023

Here is the column: The collapse of the Hunter Biden plea bargain has left many in Washington shocked. 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. That is what is called a “happy ending” in Washington.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 11, 2021

Below is my column in The Hill on the recent decisions of Attorney General Merrick Garland to support the prior positions taken by his predecessor, William Barr, on issues ranging from the Lafayette Park protests to immigration to withholding information related to the Mueller investigation. Jean Carroll, who alleges that Trump raped her.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 17, 2023

Legal analysts often are asked to give the percentages on a case’s outcome or conviction. While there are some legal and political analysts who believe self-pardons are impermissible, I have long disagreed. The Justice Department has one prior opinion on this issue from August 1974, from the Office of Legal Counsel (OLC).

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

The quote came to mind after reading the response of Abbe Lowell, legal counsel for Hunter Biden, to the issuance of subpoenas for Hunter and other family members by the House Oversight Committee. With this subpoena, he will now have to choose between cooperation or contempt … on the committee’s schedule. That will now change.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 25, 2023

Attorney for the District of Massachusetts. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts, despite a referral from the DOJ’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG), which found evidence that she lied to investigators and may have improperly sought to influence an election. district attorney election last year. Kevin Hayden.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

It is important to note that, while influence-peddling can be done legally, it is uniformly viewed as corrupt. 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

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

For full disclosure, George Washington University (where I teach) was again ranked “below average” on free speech, coming in at 185 out of 248. Indeed, in the top-20 schools for free speech, only two are private universities, the University of Chicago and Washington & Lee University.

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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. In Washington, U.S. The hearing on the removal gave a glimpse into the case.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 12, 2023

This includes the truly bizarre suggestion of the Washington Post’s Jennifer Rubin that the GOP “invited” the terror attack in Israel by allowing eight members and the entire Democratic block to vacate the chair. Steve Scalise (R., “Republicans’ weakness invites terror.”

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

Now, the Michigan Attorney General and others are suggesting that Republicans who oppose certification or even meet with President Donald Trump on the issue could be criminally investigated or charged. As I have previously written, a leading proponent has been former prosecutor and Washington Post columnist Randall D.

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DECEMBER 10, 2023

Moreover, besides the benefits to his family (which would legally constitute benefits in criminal cases ), there are references in Hunter’s emails to giving his father income, paying bills, and using shared accounts and credit cards.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 17, 2023

” For its part, most of the media portrayed the now-infamous Steele dossier — the original basis for the collusion claims — as true, and the New York Times and Washington Post received Pulitzer Prizes for a story that not only has been debunked but shown to be the product of Hillary’s Clinton’s presidential campaign.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 2, 2023

Goldman was a Democratic staff attorney when the House impeached Donald Trump in 2019 largely on the basis of a single telephone call to the president of Ukraine. In Washington, influence-peddling is an art form, and the Bidens appear to be political Rembrandts. That was not the point of the calls. Goldman, just “niceties.”

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 8, 2020

With the nomination of California Attorney General Xavier Becerra for Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, the list of presumed frontrunners for Attorney General is narrowing. One name remains prominently at top: former Associate Attorney General Sally Yates.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 3, 2021

Yet, the host of legal experts and media who condemned the use of tear gas and the clearing of the Lafayette park area last year are entirely silent on the disclosures. As I noted in my testimony to Congress on the protest, the clearing of the park raised serious legal questions, particularly the unjustified use of force that night.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 9, 2023

California Attorney General Rob Bonta (D) chimed in, declaring the flight from Florida might be “ State-sanctioned kidnapping.” Justice Department to investigate whether the flights are violations of the federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act — a ridiculous legal suggestion.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 26, 2021

The long-awaited, though partial, release of a memorandum from the Justice Department this week left many “ frustrated ,” as predicted by the Washington Post, in Washington. Critics had sought the memo as the “smoking gun” to show how former Attorney General Bill Barr scuttled any obstruction charges against Donald Trump.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 27, 2023

” (He did not explain why a message legally acquired by the government from the cloud account of his client would be illegal to include in the report of a congressional investigatory committee.) His lawyer, Chris Clark, first insisted that the release of the messages “are not only irresponsible, they are illegal.”

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 15, 2023

District Attorney Fani Willis appears to have elected to charge everything and everyone and let God sort them out. The long-anticipated indictment by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is expected in the coming days and will focus on alleged election tampering and related offenses in the 2020 presidential election.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 2, 2022

However, there are elements to the decision that are deeply concerning on issues ranging from free speech to attorney-client privilege. The Washington Post was quick to breathlessly declare that the time had finally come. Attorney General Merrick] Garland will have an exceptionally hard time justifying a decision not to prosecute.”.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Attorney John Durham as a Special Counsel. House Intelligence Committee Adam Schiff and other Democrats have already denounced the move and called for the next Attorney General to consider rescinding the appointment. Below is my column in USA Today on the implications of the appointment of U.S.

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DECEMBER 31, 2022

During an illustrious career as a constitutional law scholar and a top Supreme Court advocate, Walter Dellinger argued 24 times before the court, including in some of the biggest cases of the past 30 years. Dellinger lost both of those cases, but he notched plenty of victories, including in Washington v. Board of Education.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Indeed, according to a poll from ABC News and the Washington Post this week, 58 percent believe that President Biden is being “held accountable under the law like any other president” in this inquiry. President Biden may be guilty of impeachable conduct, but that constitutional finding must be based on evidence, not impulse.

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JULY 6, 2023

criticized me for offering “legal opinions” without working at Twitter. 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. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.)

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