JonathanTurley

JULY 13, 2022

It should not violate HIPPA or other laws to confirm that a report was filed and the victim has been protected by authorities. ” Those three words from Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost left many of us perplexed on Monday night when he said that his search for a notorious child rape case in his state had turned up nothing.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2021

One issue to watch is how Judge Bruce Schroeder handles the gun count, which is based on what I believe is a flawed legal interpretation by the prosecution. Here is the column: The trial of Kyle Rittenhouse increasingly seems like a legal version of the parable of the blind men and the elephant. The narrative can overwhelm the facts.

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OCTOBER 22, 2022

The most cited was the contempt case against former Attorney General Eric Holder. For the record, I previously stated that the House was on solid legal ground in pursuing a contempt charge. His legal position was hopelessly conflicted and incomplete. He also stated shortly before trial that he was in fact willing to testify.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 19, 2024

Here is the column: Chris Christie once said that Donald Trump is often portrayed by legal counsel as “the unluckiest S.O.B. While a recusal or removal of Willis may delay the case, it will not end the legal threat for Trump. in the world.” Wade also has been held in contempt in his messy divorce.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

In another defeat for the Justice Department, a federal court has ordered not just the appointment of a Special Master but halted the use of the seized Mar-a-Lago documents by prosecutors until the legal status of these documents is established (The ongoing intelligence security review of classified material can continue). The ruling by U.S.

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JUNE 9, 2023

to be charged criminally for transporting 36 people to Sacramento. California Attorney General Rob Bonta (D) chimed in, declaring the flight from Florida might be “ State-sanctioned kidnapping.” Attorney for the District of Massachusetts, announced that she was taking a look, “long and hard,” at potential charges.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

While legal experts pushed the department to challenge the entire order, the Department is seeking a smaller target. ” Despite a chorus of legal experts claiming that the entire order is legally unfounded and unsupportable, the DOJ is not making those arguments in court. It is a smart move.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Over the last four years, we have seen an alarming trend of law professors and legal experts discarding constitutional and due process commitments to support theories for the prosecution or impeachment of Donald Trump or his family. ” It goes to the most fundamental principles of justice in our legal system.

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JUNE 16, 2021

The targeting of recipients of this information in Congress and in the media constitutes direct attacks on Article I and the First Amendment of the Constitution. This will be one of the topics of a meeting convened by Attorney General Merrick Garland with media officials this week.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 9, 2022

As discussed below, there could be legal as well as political ramifications as the House moves forward with the long-delayed investigation of these social media companies. It is still early to determine possible legal implications of these files, but there are some areas likely to be of immediate concern for counsel.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 3, 2023

The testimony put the controversial demands of New York Attorney General James into sharp relief. The charges brought by New York State Attorney General Letitia James were curious from the start. Below is my column in The Messenger on the recent testimony of bankers in the Trump fraud trial.

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JUNE 3, 2021

Yet, the host of legal experts and media who condemned the use of tear gas and the clearing of the Lafayette park area last year are entirely silent on the disclosures. As I noted in my testimony to Congress on the protest, the clearing of the park raised serious legal questions, particularly the unjustified use of force that night.

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OCTOBER 10, 2023

He could ask for a reconsideration of the policy, which was poorly supported during the Clinton Administration as a rationale for blocking any indictment for perjury by the Office of Legal Counsel. It is the type of question that Attorney General Merrick Garland should be eager to answer.

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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.

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OCTOBER 29, 2023

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. In doing so, he is fueling anger over the perception of a weaponized criminal justice system.

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APRIL 19, 2021

Moreover, they would fail under a lower standard of proof than the “beyond a reasonable doubt” standard in criminal law. Such a result would eviscerate the claim that Trump was guilty of criminal incitement in his speech. Trump was clearly guilty of criminal incitement.

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JANUARY 14, 2022

However, as a criminal defense attorney, there are some gaps and disconnects that I expect could cause difficulties at trial on the sedition conspiracy charge. It will be the seditious conspiracy count that will produce the greatest factual and legal challenges in the months to come.

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JANUARY 14, 2021

I do not believe that the President’s speech constituted criminal incitement unless there is more evidence of the President’s intent or knowledge. Many legal experts maintain that the speech, particularly in the context of his election challenge, is sufficient to convict.

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JUNE 30, 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.

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JUNE 17, 2022

There is also no compelling legal basis for the claim. After the riot, District of Columbia Attorney General Karl Racine announced that he was considering arresting Trump, Donald Trump Jr., Tribe further predicted that Attorney General Merrick Garland would criminally charge Donald Trump. Those are plenty to start with.”.

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JUNE 25, 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. There is a host of people, from his family to foreign officials around the world, who will bear witness to that.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Various members and legal experts have claimed that the case for prosecution is clear on its face. What was touted by many experts as a slam-dunk criminal charge has now joined a long list of alleged crimes that once were nightly cable-news sensations. Many of the same experts now trumpet the charge of criminal incitement in the Jan.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 24, 2022

While castigating Trump counsel John Eastman for telling legislators to “just do it,” the same message seems to be coming from members and legal experts on some cable programs. However, many seem to be making the same demand of Attorney General Garland about bringing criminal charges. Seditious conspiracy.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 13, 2024

While some legal analysts continue to boost Hunter Biden’s legal claims, the reviews in actual courts are far less glowing. ” Legal experts like MSNBC’s Andew Weissmann have slammed the gun charges as “an abuse.” Judge Noreika is equally unimpressed by the arguments of the Biden team.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 26, 2021

Critics had sought the memo as the “smoking gun” to show how former Attorney General Bill Barr scuttled any obstruction charges against Donald Trump. The issue of obstruction of justice ran throughout Barr’s second term as Attorney General. The reason is what it did not contain. Instead, the memo showed the opposite.

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JUNE 11, 2023

Regarding Mar-a-Lago, the reported inclusion of a charge under the Espionage Act is a bit surprising, given the novel legal issues surrounding the handling of such documents. The question is whether Smith will be as quick to resolve that question as he has been in alleging the crimes at Mar-a-Lago.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 2, 2023

Goldman was a Democratic staff attorney when the House impeached Donald Trump in 2019 largely on the basis of a single telephone call to the president of Ukraine. 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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OCTOBER 5, 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. Indeed, in a change for his counsel and the media alike, sobriety is now Hunter’s final line of defense.

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AUGUST 15, 2023

Indeed, every call, speech, and tweet appears a criminal step in the conspiracy. District Attorney Fani Willis appears to have elected to charge everything and everyone and let God sort them out. As with Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, many view Willis as a Democratic prosecutor pursuing the highly unpopular former president.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 2, 2022

However, there are elements to the decision that are deeply concerning on issues ranging from free speech to attorney-client privilege. Given the Posts long record of running professed slam dunk criminal charges against Trump that amounted to nothing, that is hardly a surprise. After all, the media heralded the statements of D.C.

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DECEMBER 10, 2023

Moreover, besides the benefits to his family (which would legally constitute benefits in criminal cases ), there are references in Hunter’s emails to giving his father income, paying bills, and using shared accounts and credit cards.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 17, 2023

Legal analysts often are asked to give the percentages on a case’s outcome or conviction. While there are some legal and political analysts who believe self-pardons are impermissible, I have long disagreed. The Justice Department has one prior opinion on this issue from August 1974, from the Office of Legal Counsel (OLC).

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JonathanTurley

JULY 5, 2021

Below is my column in the Hill on a series of cases that appear propelled by political rather than legal considerations. The costs to the legal system, the public, or victims in such cases are often overlooked but they are considerable. Nor is he alone in pursuing a case driven more by political than legal considerations.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

If there is a single line that sums up the sense of legal impunity in the second Trump impeachment, it is that line from a letter sent by law professors to deny any basis for the former president to challenge his impeachment on free speech grounds. “The First Amendment does not apply in impeachment proceedings.”

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 1, 2022

The line does not make a case for civil defamation — but it could offer a criminal defense if Attorney General Merrick Garland charges Trump as part of an ongoing grand jury investigation. As a defamation lawsuit, the length of the exhibits does little to make up for the limited case law supporting Trump’s claim.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 9, 2023

Notably, the New York Times has reported that Biden has had his own Thomas Becket moments in telling aides that he wanted Trump indicted and criticizing the Attorney General Merrick Garland for the delay. Now, according to special counsel Smith, such knowing lies can be criminal matters, at least in the case of Donald Trump.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 8, 2020

With the nomination of California Attorney General Xavier Becerra for Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, the list of presumed frontrunners for Attorney General is narrowing. One name remains prominently at top: former Associate Attorney General Sally Yates.

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