JonathanTurley

MAY 27, 2024

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg appears to be launching his own school of abstract legal work in the Trump indictment. For many of us, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has created a new school of abstract law where there is no need for objective meaning. Jonathan Turley is the J.B.

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DECEMBER 3, 2023

The testimony put the controversial demands of New York Attorney General James into sharp relief. Those words from Alice in Wonderland seem the only apt description of the case unfolding in the New York courtroom of Justice Arthur F. They did not. It all reminds one of another great work.

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MAY 6, 2024

But Bragg is betting on a New York jury looking no further than the identity of the defendant to convict. When Keith Davidson took the stand — the attorney who represented both Stormy Daniels and former Playboy model Karen McDougal — he recounted how Cohen was furious about not being offered a job in the White House.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 22, 2023

Below is my column in the New York Post on the expanding scandal surrounding the Hunter Biden investigation. ” The responsibility for this theater of the absurd is Attorney General Merrick Garland who has again shown a lack of strength and leadership at a key moment for his department. Dan Goldman of New York).

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JonathanTurley

MAY 15, 2024

Below is a slightly expanded version of my column in the New York Post on the first day of cross examination for Michael Cohen. Judge Juan Merchan will now have to give the full measure of his commitment to the rule of law. Cohen has truly found a home with the office of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 9, 2023

Below is my column in the New York Post on the second indictment of Hunter Biden. Here is the column: The 56-page indictment of Hunter Biden for tax evasion makes for racy reading, with the special counsel describing a four-year criminal pattern directed at maintaining Biden’s “extravagant lifestyle.”

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MAY 28, 2024

Below is my column in the New York Post on the closing arguments scheduled for today in the trial of former President Donald Trump. There is still debate among legal experts as to the specific crime that District Attorney Alvin Bragg is alleging. However, that was the failure of Cohen, who was later disbarred as an attorney.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 13, 2024

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is losing even CNN hosts and legal analysts. Indeed, Daniels’s graphic testimony may prove the moral high point of this trial, since serial perjurer and disbarred attorney Michael Cohen is scheduled to testify Monday. It was a pressure campaign directed at Bragg. Jonathan Turley is the J.B.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 21, 2023

Below is my column in the New York Post on the expected indictment against former President Donald Trump. 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. Here is the column: “It’s moving. It’s alive.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 18, 2024

Below is my column in the New York Post on discovery of cocaine on the pouch holding Hunter Biden’s gun. Here is the column: Attorney Abbe Lowell has faced a series of legal blows in his defense of Hunter Biden, but not quite as literal or lethal as what came this week in his client’s gun prosecution.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

Below is a longer version of my column in the New York Post on the leaking of the interviews of former counsel to Donald Trump. The interviews could magnify the difficulties for both Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and Special Counsel Jack Smith in their respective prosecutions.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 6, 2024

Below is my column in the New York Post on the expanding controversy surrounding the disqualification of Fani Willis and Nathan Wade. Those conversations allegedly occurred as late as January 2024 with Cindi Lee Yeager, a co-chief deputy district attorney for Cobb County.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 2, 2023

Below is my column in the New York Post on the level of joy being expressed by many over the indictment of former president Donald Trump, including former FBI Director James Comey. Yet now Comey is heralding the effort of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg , who campaigned on a pledge of bagging Trump for some unspecified crime.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 25, 2023

Below is my column in the New York Post on Hunter College Professor Shellyne Rodríguez and her termination after menacing a reporter with a machete. Hunter College fired the art professor after she held a machete to the neck of a New York Post reporter and threatened to “chop you up.”

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 15, 2023

Indeed, every call, speech, and tweet appears a criminal step in the conspiracy. District Attorney Fani Willis appears to have elected to charge everything and everyone and let God sort them out. Like the New York indictment, a Georgia indictment would not be subject to a presidential pardon.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

However, Special Counsel Jack Smith and the Fulton County District Attorney appear to be arguing that, while Trump was assured of these claims by counsel, he should never have listened to them. It is a type of “Siren’s Call” theory of criminality. Kenneth Chesebro’s attorney, Scott Grubman, says that “Mr.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 8, 2023

Below is my column in the New York Post on the riot caused by Kai Cenat in New York. However, the use of criminal charges, in my view, is neither needed nor wise. Here is the column: Kai Cenat is live streamer and YouTuber who occupies that new but pervasive status of “influencer.”

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Below is a longer version of my column in the New York Post on the gag order motion docketed Friday night in Washington, D.C. One of the top issues in this presidential campaign is Trump’s insistence that the Justice Department and the criminal justice system have been weaponized by Democrats. by Special Counsel Jack Smith.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 24, 2023

Below is my column in the New York Post on the continued drama in Manhattan over the possible Trump indictment. Here is the column: It appears that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg will go another week in the legal effort to locate the nation of Kailasa on a map.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 20, 2023

C-Span/YouTube Screenshot Below is my column in the New York Post on the denial of the early release requested by Michael Cohen in New York. What was most notable was the use of Cohen’s cable appearances on CNN and MSNBC to show that he is continuing a pattern of lying about his past criminal conduct.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Below is my column in the New York Post on reports that Special Counsel Robert Hur has finally interviewed President Joe Biden on allegations that he removed and retained classified material going back to his time as a United States senator. It is the type of question that Attorney General Merrick Garland should be eager to answer.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 12, 2023

Below is my column in the New York Post on the Trump indictment and why so many citizens have little interest in its content or charges. 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.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 9, 2023

Below is my column in the New York Post on the Trump indictment. In New York, Trump is facing a clearly political prosecution by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, a case that easily fulfills Trump’s narrative of the weaponization of the criminal justice system. This case, however, is different.

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APRIL 8, 2022

However, according to the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers , less than 3 percent of criminal cases have gone to trial in the last five decades. But they were still frog-marched into a plea bargain by their defense attorney or the prosecutor or the judge or some combination thereof. Photo by Brandy Brewer.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 25, 2022

Below is my column in the New York Post on the opposition of the Justice Department to release of even a redaction affidavit in the ongoing controversy over the raid at Mar-a-Lago. Jonathan Turley is an attorney and professor at George Washington University Law School.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 6, 2023

Below is my column in the New York Post on the release of the indictment against former President Donald Trump. At some point, Bragg will have to state the actual criminal basis for these 34 counts. Jonathan Turley is an attorney and a professor at George Washington University Law School.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Below is my column in the New York Post on the confirmation that Hunter Biden will finally appear before Congress on December 13th. False statements on any of these questions could result in new charges and pressure on Attorney General Merrick Garland to prosecute.

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

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 23, 2023

C-Span Screengrab Below is my column in the New York Post on new evidence contradicting the account of President Joe Biden on his role in forcing the firing of Ukrainian prosecutor general Viktor Shokin. The demand for the replacement of the equivalent of the attorney general in another country is an extraordinary move.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 14, 2023

Below is my column in the New York Post on issuance of superseding indictments for Sen. Bob Menendez, his wife, and associates to include new charges related to his alleged work as unregistered foreign agents. The new charges not only highlight the alleged corrupt practices of Sen.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 16, 2023

Below is my column in the New York Post on the curious use of lawyers by President Joe Biden in the classified document controversy. Using private counsel allows Biden to raise attorney-client privilege. While that attorney-client privilege can be overcome under a “crime/fraud exception,” it adds a level of initial protection.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 13, 2023

Below is my column in the New York Post on one possible explanation for the distribution and division of classified documents in a former office, a garage, and the library of President Joe Biden. Biden may have to take responsibility for this debacle, but he faces a potential criminal charge.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 17, 2023

In October 1973, Nixon carried out the “Saturday Night Massacre” over Attorney General Elliot Richardson’s refusal to fire special prosecutor Archibald Cox; the standoff led to the resignations of Richardson and his deputy, William Ruckelshaus. A self-pardoned president can still be impeached. Pardons are no different.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 12, 2023

With the reported discovery of a second batch of highly classified documents connected to President Biden, the decisions of Attorney General Merrick Garland are fast moving from the inexplicable to incomprehensible. The New York Times called the documents “elusive,” as if they moved by free will.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Below is a longer version of my New York Post column on the recent claim of Hillary Clinton that she has been the subject to a long-standing and unfair “Clinton standard” while denying that there was any classified information found on her private server. For Hillary, no charge.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Below is my column in the New York Post on the potential liability of the parents of Sam Bankman-Fried. Joseph Bankman , a longtime Stanford Law School tax professor, was a paid employee of his son and helped promote the company. Jonathan Turley is an attorney and professor at George Washington University Law School.

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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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