JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

That is precisely why the New York Court of Appeals should act to redeem the integrity of the legal system by setting aside or drastically reducing this award. In electing openly partisan prosecutors such as James and District Attorney Alvin Bragg, voters have shown a preference for political prosecutions and investigations.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 20, 2023

The basis for an indictment remains unclear but the advantage in trying a case in Washington, D.C. Here is the column: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington is a favorite classic movie for millions of Americans. Today’s legal-political sequel, however, may prove to be a bit more controversial. is obvious. 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol.

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APRIL 22, 2021

In March of 2020, just as Katie Peterson’s first year of law school was nearing its close, everything changed. As Katie rounds out a full year of remote law school, she and ALPS Claims Attorney Martha Amrine reflect on how 2020 upended long-held law school traditions and created new ones.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 18, 2024

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. Jonathan Turley is an attorney and professor at George Washington University Law School.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 23, 2023

The effort to “resolve Hunter” has been a concerted effort by the political and legal establishment. What is particularly chilling is that the establishment in Washington is not even trying to rebut the widespread view of a two-tiered system of justice. She is not a true Biden.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Obviously, people can disagree, but this would seem an obvious example where the AP would refrain from using the most loaded term of “insurrection” given the legal and factual contradictions in such usage. Journalism schools now teach young reporters to follow an advocacy model in “ leaving neutrality behind.” This was terrorism.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 6, 2023

Warning: it has no legally nutritional content… Here is the column: “We cannot and will not normalize serious criminal conduct,” Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said of his indictment of former president Donald Trump. He insisted that Trump could not be allowed to use “fictitious legal services” for political purposes.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 21, 2024

Judge Merchan seems in open denial of the legal farce playing out in his courtroom. Prior witnesses testified that Trump’s payments to Cohen were designated as “legal expenses” not by Trump but by his accounting staff. That is what Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is counting on. In fact, it was hard not to stare.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 14, 2024

Thus far, however, Cohen has offered nothing new and, more importantly, nothing to make the case for Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. This is the man who, according to Stormy Daniels’ attorney, Keith Davidson, expected to be Trump’s Attorney General.

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JULY 12, 2021

If you are wondering where the innovators are in law, look no farther than the Fastcase 50, the annual award doled out by the legal intelligence company Fastcase that honors 50 of the law’s “smartest, most courageous, innovators, techies, visionaries, and leaders.”. Brad Stern , County Attorney, Washington County, Wisconsin.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

By the end of 2022, there were 36 pieces of active psychedelic drug legislative initiatives, and now, a bill to legalize certain naturally occurring psychedelics in California is headed to Governor Newsom’s desk. Even though these inclusions are now standard practice for omnibus legalization bills, they often fall short.

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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.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 8, 2024

Here is the column: Before the start of the Manhattan prosecution of former president Donald Trump, I characterized the case of District Attorney Alvin Bragg as based on a type of obscenity standard. New Yorkers elected a state attorney general, Letitia James, who ran on the pledge to bag Trump on something — without specifying any crime.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 20, 2024

It is, in my view, entirely without merit but Attorney General Merrick Garland appears more interested in running out the clock than prevailing on the claim. Here is the column: While all eyes were focused on a Manhattan courthouse for Donald Trump’s trial, a curious thing happened in Washington. It is a cynical calculation.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 16, 2022

. “You cannot claim self-defense against a danger you create,” said Assistant District Attorney Thomas Binger in his closing argument. “If Still, the case illustrated the confusion surrounding application of the “initial aggressor” legal doctrine in U.S. The jury didn’t agree.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 26, 2024

This effort includes not just a public campaign against Kennedy and Stein as spoilers, but “legal action” to solve the problem by denying voters a choice. The Washington Post stated clinically “ Democrats are taking third-party threats seriously this time.” It appears that the last thing that democracy needs is free democratic choice.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Here is the column: With the departure of John Kerry as “climate czar,” President Biden has announced that he will be replaced by John Podesta, a Democratic powerbroker and Washington insider. As the campaign denied funding the dossier, Elias paid out $1,024,407 for the dossier in 2016 as “legal advice and services.”

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JonathanTurley

MAY 20, 2023

Today, I have the pleasure of returning to the University of Chicago for a talk on law and politics. I will be joined by Larry Krasner, Philadelphia District Attorney. Both Krasner and I were graduates of the 1983 class as were figures like commentator and columnist David Brooks. and Maurice C.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 6, 2024

Michael Cohen will soon appear in a Manhattan courtroom in what is sure to be one of the most bizarre moments in legal history. The money was later paid back by Trump after the election, with other legal expenses. Davidson said that Cohen believed he might be named attorney general. No, seriously, this is not a joke.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 18, 2024

It is the smell of not just selective prosecution but political bias in our legal system. District Attorney Fani Willis had described Wade as “ a Southern gentleman. Attorney Rachael Rollins was disbarred after being found to have lied to investigators about leaking material to the press for political purposes.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 4, 2021

On Monday, in a federal courtroom in Ohio, major pharmacy companies — in this case, CVS, Walgreens, Giant Eagle, and Walmart — will be facing trial for the first time for their part in the raging opioid epidemic, according to NPR , US News, and the Washington Post. . Gallucci , a lead attorney for the Ohio counties.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 28, 2024

There is still debate among legal experts as to the specific crime that District Attorney Alvin Bragg is alleging. Even liberal legal analysts admitted that they could not figure out what was being alleged in Bragg’s indictment. There is a plausible reason why payments to an attorney were listed as legal expenses.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

On ABC, New York Attorney General Letitia James declared “If he does not have funds to pay off the judgment, then we will seek judgment enforcement mechanisms in court, and we will ask the judge to seize his assets.” ” It is a curious legal system where defendants can be priced out of appeals.

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LawSites

MARCH 10, 2023

Part 1 ) ( Part 2 ) Ed Walters, CEO at Fastcase, Adjunct Professor at the Georgetown University Law Center and at Cornell Law School/Cornell Tech Ed Walters is the CEO of Fastcase , a legal intelligence company based in Washington, D.C. He is the author and editor of Data-Driven Law (Taylor & Francis 2018).

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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. Jonathan Turley is an attorney and professor at George Washington University Law School. Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.)

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LawSites

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Help pick the 15 legal tech startups that will get to compete at the eighth-annual Startup Alley at ABA TECHSHOW 2024. It also improves access to justice for society as lawyers can handle more cases, as well as remove some bias from the legal system through fact-first drafting. Voting is now open! 14-17, 2024, in Chicago.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

While that is a political defense, however, it is not a legal one. What they have is “an interesting name,” and in Washington, that is enough. Jonathan Turley is an attorney and professor at George Washington University Law School. He was then interesting but unhealthy.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 13, 2024

With a dubious legal theory, the testimony has only magnified the criticism of the prosecution as parading sensational rather than material evidence before the jury and the public. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is losing even CNN hosts and legal analysts. The cross examination was devastating. and Maurice C.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Her father then went to law school, eventually becoming the chief attorney for the Miami-Dade County School Board. Her mother became an administrator and served as the principal at a public magnet school for 14 years. In the 17 years following her graduation from law school, Jackson held a variety of legal jobs.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 15, 2024

Judge Juan Merchan will now have to give the full measure of his commitment to the rule of law. Given the failure to support the elements of any crime or even to establish the falsity of recording payments as legal expenses, this trial seemed to stumble through the motions of a trial. and Michael Cohen.

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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

MARCH 21, 2023

It is an effort to reanimate a long dead legal claim against Trump, but could reanimate his presidential campaign. 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

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. This is not to say that Trump is an unwitting victim of bad legal advice. Kenneth Chesebro’s attorney, Scott Grubman, says that “Mr.

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The Crime Report

JULY 18, 2022

An oath is a ritual performance—a centuries old concept that commits public officials and even private citizens to perform legal duties required of them in official proceedings. In all likelihood, the attorney would have the juror dismissed with a “for cause” challenge. That brings us, first, to Scotty David and Ghislaine Maxwell.

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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

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

MAY 31, 2023

Years ago, my medical colleagues at George Washington University were performing cardiac surgery on an elderly law professor when his arm slipped off the table. Tom would make it with his mother to the United States and ultimately studied law, with a J.D. at New York University Law School and his LL.M.

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