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Biden’s Break-The-Glass Option: Pardon Hunter and Withdraw from the 2024 Election

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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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Jack Smith’s War on Free Speech: Attorney General Garland Should Rein in His Special Counsel

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The court dismissed the “tawdry tales” offered by the DOJ and declared that it was far more concerned with the damage that Smith was causing to the legal system with his virtually limitless interpretation of criminality. Some of us have previously denounced the gag order issued by U.S. District Judge Tanya S.

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A Party of Short Sellers: Why Democrats Need to Re-Think Hunter’s Contempt

JonathanTurley

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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The Neutron Prosecutor: How Special Counsel Hur May Prove the Ultimate Punchline in Washington

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He could wait to see if Biden does not run for reelection or loses in 2024. Jonathan Turley is an attorney and professor at George Washington University Law School. Hur can bring charges against third parties, who would not be barred from indictment under the DOJ policy.

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Trying Trump: Scandal May Be His Element — But This Time May Be Different

JonathanTurley

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

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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. We have never criminalized such interpretations.

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Have You Seen This Man? Biden Special Counsel Robert Hur Appears to Have Vanished

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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.