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The “Why Not” Culture: Why the Georgia Final Report Should Worry Us All

JonathanTurley

(MSNBC/Screengrab via YouTube) Below is my column in the Hill on release of the final report of the Special Purpose Grand Jury in Georgia. According to Schiff, Graham calling Georgia officials about the counting or discarding of votes was enough to justify a criminal charge. However, Rep. Adam Schiff (D., insisted that Sen.

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Georgia Prosecutors Should Go, But That Won’t Necessarily End the Case Against Trump

JonathanTurley

Below is my column in The Messenger on the unfolding Fani Willis scandal in Georgia. The Georgia courts have established that a district attorney should be disqualified when there is a personal interest in the defendant’s conviction ( Whitworth v. The Georgia case has a number of credible criminal charges against various defendants.

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“Oh Georgia, No Peace I Find”: The Fourth Indictment of Donald Trump and the Criminalization of Election Controversies

JonathanTurley

Below is my column in The Messenger on the Georgia indictment. Here is the column from yesterday before the release of the indictment: “ Oh Georgia, no peace I find (no peace I find).” If indictments were treated like frequent flyer miles, Donald Trump would get the Georgia indictment for free.

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Fani Willis Fights for a Mass Trial As the Georgia Defendants Scatter

JonathanTurley

Not only are defendants scattering, but some are seeking to go to federal court where the trial would not likely be televised, as the Georgia prosecutors reportedly want. Trump potentially faces four major prosecutions in the District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia and New York before the 2024 election. In Washington, U.S.

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Who’ll Shoot First? How Relaxed Gun Rules Fuel a ‘Small Arms Race’

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Vigilante Justice Firearm Laws. The law professors detail that the small arms race arises from three main “troubling” legal implications, and it’s looking at the examples of Wisconsin and Georgia’s laws that “exemplify this perilous confluence.”. The forthcoming paper can be accessed here.

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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington — With a Possible New Indictment of Donald Trump 

JonathanTurley

This would be the third criminal indictment of Trump and there may still be a fourth coming in Georgia. Smith has a reputation in conservative circles for stretching the criminal code in high-profile cases, including the prosecution of then-Virginia Gov. However, relying on bad advice or bad law is not a crime.

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Gagging Donald Trump: Why Smith’s “Narrowly Tailored Motion” is a Neither Narrow Nor Wise

JonathanTurley

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. He was running on that issue even before the four separate criminal cases were filed against him in Florida, Georgia, New York, and Washington, D.C.