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“No Further Action Will Be Taken”: Officer Who Fatally Shot Ashli Babbitt Cleared of Any Wrongdoing By Capitol Police

JonathanTurley

As I noted earlier , if the officer intended to shoot Babbitt, it would not likely meet the standard for a justified shooting under governing cases like Tennessee v. I fail to see the justified basis under controlling legal standards but I may have the bias of a criminal defense attorney. Garner (1985).

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Appellate Court Upholds $25 Million Award Against Oberlin in Mob Action Against Family Grocery

JonathanTurley

When some people contacted Oberlin to object that the students admitted guilt, special assistant to the president for community and government relations Tita Reed wrote that it did not change a “damn thing” for her. million payment in attorney fees. Reed also reportedly participated in the campus protests. That comes to $31.2

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Connecticut High School Student Arrested For Posting Racist Slur

JonathanTurley

Indeed, after being quoted in a Washington Post article in favor of the Fourth Circuit ruling, I received emails denouncing me as a de facto racist, including one from an attorney condemning me for “defending bigotry under the guise of constitutional freedom.” Mosley , 408 U.S. The Connecticut arrest comes as the U.S.

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Fourth Circuit Overturns Conviction Of Retired Air Force Colonel For Using Racial Slur

JonathanTurley

The Supreme Court has made clear that to obtain a conviction for use of “fighting words,” the Government must offer evidence of the “likelihood that the person addressed would make an immediate violent response.” The “guise of constitutional freedom” is in fact the First Amendment’s protection of unpopular speech.

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Could The Arrest of FBI Agent Undermine The Whitmer Kidnapping Case?

JonathanTurley

As a criminal defense attorney, I have long been a critic of the degree to which the FBI often pushes defendants to take actions to trigger criminal charges. convincing him that he had or should have the right to engage in the very behavior proscribed by law.” The advantage remains with the government in this case.

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Hunter Biden’s 7% Solution: Using Addiction to Excuse Corruption

JonathanTurley

” (He did not explain why a message legally acquired by the government from the cloud account of his client would be illegal to include in the report of a congressional investigatory committee.) His lawyer, Chris Clark, first insisted that the release of the messages “are not only irresponsible, they are illegal.”

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The Constitutional Abyss: Justices Signal a Desire to Avoid Both Cliffs on Presidential Immunity

JonathanTurley

Roberts read its statement that “a former president can be prosecuted for his official acts because the fact of the prosecution means that the former president has acted in defiance of the laws” and noted it sounds like “a former president can be prosecuted because he is being prosecuted.”