JonathanTurley

JUNE 29, 2023

After months of dire predictions of a coup in the making, the Court overwhelmingly rejected the underlying “independent state legislature,” as some of us predicted. Harper, in which North Carolina legislators argued that state courts could not override state legislatures on federal election districts.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 4, 2023

In a recent filing supporting this effort, figures as prominent as media lawyer Floyd Abrams and Berkeley Dean Erwin Chemerinsky have told the Colorado Supreme Court that preventing voters from being able to cast their votes for Trump is just a way of “fostering democracy.” Jonathan Turley is the J.B. and Maurice C.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Now even law deans have called Supreme Court justices “hacks” to the delight of their followers. Tribe often shows little patience for the niceties of constitutional law or tradition. He has supported the call for packing the Supreme Court as long overdue. Take student loan forgiveness.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 8, 2024

Below is my column in The Hill on the Valley Forge speech of President Joe Biden kicking off his 2024 campaign. That line, from the speech of President Joe Biden at Valley Forge this week, may have been the most accurate observation in the entire address kicking off Biden’s 2024 campaign. Jonathan Turley is the J.B. and Maurice C.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 30, 2023

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. Regardless of the ruling of the court, it is likely to be appealed. However, Willis is trying to hold together a case to try them en masse and in state court.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 11, 2024

Nevertheless, in 2013, Democrats pushed through a rule change allowing most presidential nominees (but not Supreme Court nominees) to be confirmed by a simple majority vote. The immediate satisfaction of blocking potential voters ignores the long-term costs of this distinctly anti-democratic measure.

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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. One of the early issues for the court in Florida will be whether to gag the former president from campaigning on this matter.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 20, 2023

Supreme Court, which rebuked Smith for what it termed the “Government’s boundless interpretation.” However, relying on bad advice or bad law is not a crime. President Joe Biden, like his predecessors, has been accused of knowing disregard of statutory and constitutional law, including repeated losses before the Supreme Court.

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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.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 30, 2023

The defense could come at a cost at trial, but it is a calculated risk for the court of public opinion. The odds are against Trump on ultimately prevailing with that argument in the courts. The bravado defense is likely to play better with the public than a court. Trump repeated that defense this week.

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