JonathanTurley

AUGUST 22, 2022

It will be the fifth chance for Attorney General Merrick Garland to take a modest step to assure concerned citizens over the basis or motivation for the raid. Instead, the government scooped up everything, from passports to attorney-client material. Garland’s third opportunity came with the raid itself.

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AUGUST 20, 2023

5 voice mail at Chutkan’s chambers in which she called her a racial slur and threatened her, saying, “If Trump doesn’t get elected in 2024, we are coming to kill you, so tread lightly, b—-.” Abigail Jo Shry, 43, of Alvin, Tex., allegedly left an Aug. Ferrier apparently made the ricin in her home in Quebec.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 13, 2022

Harvard Law professor emeritus Laurence Tribe has long been an endless font for the media in claiming clear evidence of a variety of crimes for the imminent prosecution of Donald Trump. It is certainly true that prosecutors have sought to apply this law broadly in past cases like that of Chelsea Manning.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 10, 2023

He could wait to see if Biden does not run for reelection or loses in 2024. It is the type of question that Attorney General Merrick Garland should be eager to answer. Jonathan Turley is an attorney and professor at George Washington University Law School.

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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

JUNE 13, 2023

Every criminal defendant is entitled to a speedy trial under the Sixth Amendment. Under the federal law, a speedy trial would start within roughly two months. With a 76-year-old client, the defense attorneys have to play a perfect game. Yet the question is whether there will be a case to prosecute after November 2024.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 29, 2023

Here is the column: In 2016, the Supreme Court issued a unanimous opinion overturning a conviction that the Department of Justice (DOJ) had seemed willing to secure at whatever cost to the rule of law. The rebuke came to mind this week as Smith continued his unrelenting effort to gag former president Donald Trump before the 2024 election.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 8, 2023

The members repeatedly used the hearing to make a pitch for the midterm and 2024 elections. Chansley reaffirms the old expression among defense attorneys: “One day on the cover of Time, next day doing time.” Witnesses were used as virtual props, and the committee consistently blocked any alternative views and evidence.

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APRIL 27, 2022

The list of civil cases includes the ongoing investigation by New York Attorney General Letitia James into whether he falsely inflated the value of his assets in annual financial statements. The former president has been a consummate escape artist when it comes to his alleged violations of the law. On Monday, Judge Arthur F.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 30, 2023

Some Republican presidential candidates have stated already that they will (or would consider) pardons for Trump if they are elected in 2024. 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

MARCH 21, 2024

” That is hardly a promising review before Cohen appears as the star witness for Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg in the prosecution of former president Donald Trump. Despite at least a multiple such sources, Cohen has insisted, “I was extremely proud to be the personal attorney for the president of the United States of America.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 11, 2023

It will be difficult to get through a trial before the 2024 presidential election. The 2024 election could become a referendum on this case. 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

JANUARY 12, 2023

The discovery (and later addition of a second batch of classified material at a second location) is magnifying the inherently conflicted position of Attorney General Merrick Garland. Attorney John Lausch for investigation. Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at The George Washington University.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 17, 2023

However, the odds of Trump going to prison could depend more on the court of public opinion than on the court of law. Thus, the odds of Trump going to prison could well be the same as the odds of him or another Republican winning the 2024 presidential election. Currently, those odds are roughly even. Pardons are no different.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

The public statements of Trump alone would not make for a credible case for criminal incitement under the controlling case law. Nevertheless, District of Columbia Attorney General Karl Racine garnered widespread acclaim by announcing soon after the Jan. The reason is that while the crime is not clear, the case law is.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 23, 2023

Below is my column in the Hill on how the two criminal investigations over classified documents could create an unprecedented constitutional conflict in 2024. These two investigations should take less than the average — but they are starting in 2023, with a presidential election in 2024. One or both could be indicted.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 11, 2023

Attorney General Merrick Garland knows that many citizens no longer trust the government and his current position will only deepen those misgivings. He announced that he was compelled to appoint a special counsel on the Mar-a-Lago and other possible offenses by Trump after he officially became a candidate for the 2024 presidential election.

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JUNE 15, 2023

Here is the column: With the arraignment of Donald Trump in Miami, Department of Justice (DOJ) special counsel Jack Smith is pushing forward with a historic criminal prosecution that could result in a terminal prison sentence for the 76-year-old former president and, at least for now, the leading Republican candidate in the 2024 election.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 15, 2024

Here is the column: The famous Roman philosopher and orator Marcus Tullius Cicero once said, “The more laws, the less justice.” Lawyers have been scouring the civil and criminal codes for any basis to sue or prosecute Trump before the upcoming 2024 election. Like his predecessor, Bragg previously scoffed at the case.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 31, 2021

In my view, the lawsuit contravenes free speech as well as controlling case law from the Supreme Court. attorney Patrick Malone, who previously filed ethics complaints against lawyers representing the Trump campaign or the Republican party. That claim runs directly counter to the controlling case law. In Brandenburg v.

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APRIL 20, 2023

attorney for the District of Delaware. At the same time, Attorney General Merrick Garland has steadfastly ignored the obvious basis for the appointment of a special counsel despite repeated references to the President as an intended recipient of influence peddling proceeds. Take t he investigation of David Weiss, the U.S.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 3, 2023

It is another disheartening example of intentional leaks in violation of federal law and DOJ policies. Here is the column: The 2024 presidential campaign technically began months ago with the first announced candidates. But it too would likely be pending by Election Day 2024. Such a trial would likely occur after the election.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 1, 2023

However, a FARA charge would be embarrassing to both President Biden and Attorney General Merrick Garland. While Democrats are now emphasizing that influence peddling is lawful, it is also clearly a form of corruption worthy of investigation. A criminal charge could put such motives before a jury — and the American public.

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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. It is not treated under federal law as a political contribution to yourself. As with James, Bragg saw it in Trump.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 11, 2022

I previously testified in Congress on the seizure of some boxes of material at Mar-a-Lago and the authority of the National Archives to seek intervention by the attorney general to force compliance with the PRA. The PRA is rarely subject to criminal prosecution, and past prosecutions have resulted in remarkably light punishments.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 28, 2023

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. That is what is called a “happy ending” in Washington.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 16, 2022

Below is my column in USA Today on the diminishing role of Attorney General Merrick Garland at the Justice Department after a series of controversies. ” If one image sums up the incredibly shrinking stature of Attorney General Merrick Garland, it is that line in the aftermath of the Mar-a-Lago search. Unlike the U.S.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 20, 2023

6 speech for criminal charges. That speech is entirely protected under the First Amendment and governing case law, including Brandenburg v. In the past, congressional Democrats used the very same law to challenge presidential election certifications with little or no evidence. We have never criminalized such interpretations.

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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. Trump were seeking a way to prove the political weaponization of the criminal justice system, Bragg just fulfilled that narrative. Here is the column: “It’s moving.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 12, 2023

He declared “we have one set of laws in this country and they apply to everyone.” 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. Smith’s case could end with a stroke of a pen.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 10, 2022

6 committee’s main aim is to ensure President Trump can’t run in 2024.” Indeed, much of this evidence would have been hard to refute like the deposition of former Attorney General Bill Barr on the election fraud allegations. Only eight percent answered in the affirmative while 89 percent said it made no change at all in their views.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

All of the three main players — Trump, Attorney General Merrick Garland, and Special Counsel Jack Smith — will face immediate challenges in the legal arms race unfolding in Washington. His announced intention to run for the presidency in 2024 may have expedited the appointment of a special counsel. Former President Trump.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 11, 2024

The political culture of short selling is nowhere more evident than in the “ballot-cleansing” efforts of Democratic officials and activists to remove Trump’s name from 2024 ballots as well as to remove primary opponents against Biden.

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