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

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

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

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 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

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

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 Justice Department itself declined this prosecution and both the former chair of the Federal Election Commission and various election law experts have thrown shade on the theory. Trump were seeking a way to prove the political weaponization of the criminal justice system, Bragg just fulfilled that narrative.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 12, 2023

He declared “we have one set of laws in this country and they apply to everyone.” Nevertheless, Comey chose this month to declare that, in the 2024 election, “it has to be Joe Biden.” It seems for both Comey and Smith, it has to be Biden in 2024. Smith’s case could end with a stroke of a pen.

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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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