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

JonathanTurley

Aladin was charged with robbery, which is a second degree felony, and Whettstone and Lawrence were charged with first degree misdemeanor assault. million payment in attorney fees. The two patriarchs of the family died during the course of this litigation. A judge later reduced the award to $25 million. That comes to $31.2

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California Dreaming: Newsom’s Kidnapping Claim Against DeSantis is Long on Politics and Short on the Law

JonathanTurley

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. The reason is that these claims are made for cable news, not courts of law.

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Why Has Trump Not Been Charged With Criminal Incitement?

JonathanTurley

However, such crimes are notoriously difficult to litigate , as shown by the failed 2012 prosecution of former presidential candidate John Edwards. Others claimed Trump committed “felony bribery” by fundraising for Republican senators when he was about to be impeached.

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The House ‘Concentrates the Mind’ of Hunter Biden with a Game-Changing Subpoena

JonathanTurley

Attorney General Merrick Garland moved quickly and aggressively to prosecute Trump associates such as Steve Bannon who failed to appear or cooperate with Congress. Moreover, Hunter has tried a wide array of approaches to these allegations of influence peddling, from a plea for sympathy to threats of litigation.

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Yes, Trump Can Pardon Himself But He Should Not Do So

JonathanTurley

One of the longest standing debates in constitutional law is dismissed as ill-informed by some of the same experts. After host Lawrence O’Donnell said he believed a president could give himself a pardon, Tribe proclaimed such a view is “incoherent and incompatible” as a constitutional matter.