SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 19, 2024

Share The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Wednesday in the case of a 76-year-old Texas woman , Sylvia Gonzalez, who was arrested on charges that she had violated a state law that prohibits tampering with government records. But the defendants in the case counter that Gonzalez’s approach would “wreak havoc on law enforcement.”

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 23, 2022

Even Justice Clarence Thomas led off the questioning by noting that Arizona’s position that the statute governs would render Martinez “pretty worthless.”. Share In Shinn v. In my oral argument recap , I discussed how several of the conservative justices seemed genuinely to struggle with that question.

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 22, 2022

In three of the past four terms, the Supreme Court has rejected broad readings of white-collar criminal laws urged by the federal government. Those decisions concerned conduct ranging from wire and computer fraud to tax violations. A list of this week’s featured petitions is below: Momphard v. McCutchen v. United States.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 24, 2024

Below is my column on Fox.com on the closure of the government and defense cases in the Trump trial. Now it will be up to 12 New Yorkers to do what neither the court nor the prosecutors were willing to do: adhere to the rule of law regardless of the identity of the defendant. He is a Fox News contributor.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 28, 2022

Even in the midst of a historic opioid crisis, and an intensely fractured Supreme Court term, the justices found common ground in longstanding presumptions of criminal law and the core principle of physician discretion. Breyer’s majority opinion reaches essentially the same result, but puts a much higher burden on the government.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Here is the column: Last week , some of us were struck by how Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis seemed to morph into the man she is prosecuting in Georgia. ” He argues that DOJ regulations instruct the attorney general to appoint a special counsel from outside the government, but Weiss was working as U.S.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 2, 2023

The former FBI director, who has been teaching and speaking on government ethics, joined others in celebrating the upcoming arrest of Trump because nothing says “ethical leadership” like a patently political prosecution. Jonathan Turley is an attorney and a professor at George Washington University Law School.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

United States , which examines whether the federal government can bring criminal charges in federal court against a defendant previously found guilty in a Court of Indian Offenses for an offense stemming from the same act. Kimberly responded that there are two easy fixes, both of which, he asserted, respect tribal sovereignty.

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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

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. There are serious challenges to this prosecution, including an argument that time has expired under the statute of limitations. Here is the column: “It’s moving.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Professors of Second Amendment law and the Bay Colony Weapons Collectors argue that the founders deliberately broadened English gun rights, which, The Firearms Policy Coalition at George Mason University writes, already provided for the right to carry a weapon in public for self-defense. Discriminatory Practice. Weakness Of ‘Proper Cause’.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 12, 2023

In April, Trump pleaded not guilty to 34 felony counts brought by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg related to hush money payments made to porn star Stormy Daniels prior to the 2016 election. Under the statute, this responsibility is left solely to the president.” Smith is now left in a battle not with Trump but time.

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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. Chief Justice John Roberts eviscerated what he called the “boundless interpretation of the federal bribery statute.”

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Hunter can also address communications with government officials on behalf of foreign clients. Hunter has benefited from the Justice Department limiting its investigation and inexplicably allowing the statute of limitations to run on key charges. to fire a Ukrainian prosecutor who was investigating Burisma for corruption.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 9, 2023

to be charged criminally for transporting 36 people to Sacramento. California Attorney General Rob Bonta (D) chimed in, declaring the flight from Florida might be “ State-sanctioned kidnapping.” Attorney for the District of Massachusetts, announced that she was taking a look, “long and hard,” at potential charges.

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LexForti

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Before establishment of this statute, there was the absence of any special law which could be entirely designated for the offenses perpetrated against minors. Instead, the offenses were recorded under the Indian Penal Code, 1860, or the Criminal Procedure Code. Both of these modifications were assessed to be crucial.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 15, 2022

However, if the documents were declassified, it would make any prosecution very difficult, if not untenable, though the obstruction count could be based on affirmative false representations made to the government. That is why Attorney General Merrick Garland should call for its unsealing. The Justice Department explained in an Aug.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

The reason, once again, is Hillary Clinton, who remains a complicating factor in Attorney General Merrick Garland showing the public that this is not about pursuing Trump but enforcing the law. A criminal charge of obstruction against Trump would offer certain political benefits for Garland. 8 search.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Sylvia Gonzalez, a newly elected Texas city council member elected on an anti-corruption platform was arrested after her first meeting for “intentionally … conceal[ing] … a government record,” for allegedly taking a petition her supporters had presented to the mayor seeking the removal of a city manager. du Pont de Nemours & Co.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 5, 2021

Now, he is insisting that the call with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger is clearly a criminal act. While I admittedly come to these questions from the counter perspective of a criminal defense attorney, the claim is legally absurd. McNally, 483 U. This Court declined to go along.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 26, 2022

After Harvard, Kruger went to Yale Law School, where she was the editor in chief of the Yale Law Journal – the first Black woman to hold that job. During law school, Kruger spent one summer as an intern for the U.S. attorney in Los Angeles and a second summer as a summer associate at Munger, Tolles & Olson.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 12, 2022

Oklahoma that Congress had not clearly disestablished a Creek Nation reservation covering much of eastern Oklahoma, and thus the area remained Native American territory for the purposes of a federal criminal law, eliminating the state’s ability to prosecute crimes there. The 5th Circuit upheld other provisions of the act.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 12, 2021

” The language of the statute in my view is unconstitutional due to its sweeping criminalization of any “curse or abuse” that could “provoke a breach of the peace.” ” However, the appellate panel corrected noted that such laws are narrowly construed in light of controlling precedent. .”

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 15, 2023

The Trump indictment details alleged efforts to conceal documents, obstruct the investigation and lie to the government. Given a suspect who is offering an implausible explanation for potentially criminal conduct, most prosecutors would want to secure a statement on the record.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 31, 2020

A government lawyer who argued at the Supreme Court more than anyone else in the 20th century. Cohen – who first met the Lovings when he was just 29 – filed a lawsuit on their behalf, challenging the Virginia law and similar state statutes as violating the 14th Amendment. A chief justice’s right-hand man. Drew Saunders Days III.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Danchenko, 43, was a key figure in the compilation of the infamous Steele dossier that led to the now discredited investigation of alleged collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russian government during the 2016 presidential race. Dolan’s attorney now describes him as a “witness” in the investigation.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 19, 2021

One of the greatest threats to free speech is the chilling effect caused by ambiguous or vague standards like the one contained in this statute. 92, 95 (1972), that the “government has no power to restrict expression because of its message, its ideas, its subject matter, or its content.”. Free speech demands bright lines.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 5, 2021

That is common in sexual harassment cases and hostile workplaces where you can get around statute of limitations when at least one case is recent or ongoing. However, as shown by the Bill Cosby case , such evidence can create reversible error in criminal cases. Indeed, if charged, Cuomo is likely to use a Cosby defense.

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