JonathanTurley

MAY 31, 2023

Below is my column in The Messenger on the passing of one of the greatest figures in human rights law, my former colleague Tom Buergenthal. With the passing of Thomas Buergenthal , I lost a mentor, a colleague and a friend, and the world lost a towering figure of international law who helped to create the field of human rights law.

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APRIL 9, 2021

The announcement fulfilled a campaign promise by the president, who last fall proposed the idea of a commission after he declined to endorse efforts by liberals to expand the Supreme Court – efforts that Justice Stephen Breyer criticized in a speech on Tuesday at Harvard Law School. Cardozo School of Law. Guy-Uriel E.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 3, 2023

In other countries, this crackdown on comedy is being enforced by the state through criminal and human rights laws. Comedians are being prosecuted under hate-speech laws in various countries that criminalize mocking any group or identity. In Brazil, comedian Danilo Gentili was prosecuted for implying a politician was a prostitute.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 11, 2023

While the Administration insists that it complied with a law that required Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra to make the reappointments personally, it later issued a retroactive reappointment for most of the directors after months of congressional inquiry. That, too, is not allowed under federal law.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 27, 2023

million were sent to a law firm and another firm associated with Hunter Biden. 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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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 21, 2021

The commissioners first heard from Kenneth Geller, a partner at Mayer Brown, and Maureen Mahoney, a partner at Latham & Watkins, who represented the views of a group of attorneys who practice regularly in front of the Supreme Court. An 18-year term limit would mean a new justice every two years – or two appointments per presidency.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 31, 2022

From legendary lawyers to lesser-known activists, journalists, and plaintiffs, the following individuals who died in 2022 all shaped the court and the law in their own ways. In 1973, Beckwith was a recent graduate of law school and was working as a political reporter for TIME magazine. David Beckwith (Oct. 30, 1942 – Oct.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 9, 2023

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. First, let’s look at the law. Gavin Newsom (D-Calif.)

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JonathanTurley

JULY 8, 2022

It was always doubtful that a law school would take the unprecedented step of barring a sitting Supreme Court justice. It’s not an unfamiliar position for the Supreme Court justice, but it generated surprising support at a leading law school. The reason? His vote to overturn Roe v. Recently, for example, Rep.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

It got worse from there, including a glaring constitutional violation by the prosecution when Binger began his cross examination of Rittenhouse by commenting on his decision to remain silent. Her guest, MSNBC legal analyst and Georgetown law professor Paul Butler, concurred and called it “the greatest performance of (his) life.”.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 19, 2024

Many of us have criticized Trump for his personal attacks on Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis as being racist and unethical; he even accused her of having an affair with a gang member , a claim that was widely contested as unfounded and denied by key figures. Wade also has been held in contempt in his messy divorce.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

It is far more menacing when this attack comes from the country’s largest law enforcement agency. Jonathan Turley is an attorney and a professor at George Washington University Law School. feeding the American public misinformation.” It is something that you might expect from a pundit or politician.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 7, 2022

It would impose reporting, training, and assessment of “the domestic terrorism threat posed by White supremacists and neo-Nazis, including White supremacist and neo-Nazi infiltration of Federal, State, and local law enforcement agencies and the uniformed services.” Shapiro Professor Of Public Interest Law. Washington, D.C.

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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. The New York law is unique in allowing massive penalties without the loss of a single dollar by a bank.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 30, 2022

Clinton has called on foreign governments to step in and pass laws that would force Twitter to continue to censor opposing views. Musk may have to yield to such domestic laws, but he can use his platform to inform citizens of those countries they are being censored and controlled in what they are allowed to read.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Jonathan Turley is an attorney and professor at George Washington University Law School. The “filtering” of free speech quickly became a choice on what views are worthy of attention. After all, if you cannot trust “Trust” professionals, who can you trust?

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Jonathan Turley is an attorney and professor at George Washington University Law School. But Biden is now facing an impeachment inquiry that will finally demand answers, not myths, on the Biden family’s influence-peddling operation.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 10, 2023

It is the type of question that Attorney General Merrick Garland should be eager to answer. Jonathan Turley is an attorney and professor at George Washington University Law School. Indeed, it should have been clarified at the outset with the mandate given to Hur.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 15, 2023

Jonathan Turley is an attorney and a professor at George Washington University Law School. The great civil libertarian Justice Louis Brandeis once warned, “The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.”

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 13, 2022

He is also a graduate of Columbia Law School. In the end, though, a large part of the story turned on the question of just what it was that enabled Harlan to see the law so differently from his peers. I corresponded with Canellos about his book. Here is our conversation, which has been lightly edited for length and clarity.

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JonathanTurley

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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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 lack of restraint shown by Smith only magnifies the lack of leadership from Attorney General Merrick Garland.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 17, 2022

In past columns, we have discussed how Harvard Law professor Laurence Tribe seems intent upon running through the entire criminal code in declaring clear evidence of every federal crime by former President Donald Trump and/or his family. You don’t have to go to law school to know that there’s something seriously criminal about that.

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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. Richard Ashby Wilson, associate law school dean at the University of Connecticut, said “Trump crossed the Rubicon and incited a mob to attack the U.S. Trump’s Jan.

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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 25, 2023

In the law, the “designated defendant” is often a chump who is given some impressive title, a good salary, and the authority to sign reports or filings for a corporation. Hunter was clearly more than a simple dupe, but he never had much to offer beyond his name and access to his father. Hunter Biden finally is important.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Above the Law senior editor Joe Patrice defended “predominantly liberal faculties” in a column arguing that hiring a conservative academic was akin to allowing a believer in geocentrism — that the sun orbits the earth — to teach at a university. Public universities must protect free speech as a matter of law.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 26, 2023

And if Trump were to be elected as president, a new attorney general might scuttle Smith’s investigation or Trump might grant himself a presidential pardon. 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

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Richard Ashby Wilson, associate law school dean at the University of Connecticut, said “Trump crossed the Rubicon and incited a mob to attack the U.S. Bolstering such claims, District of Columbia Attorney General Karl Racine said he was investigating Trump for a possible incitement charge. The problem is free speech.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 6, 2023

When I pointed out that he was quoting from a case justifying the arrest of socialists due to their political views during the Red Scare, Goldman shot back that “we don’t need a law class here.” They may not “need” such facts — but they, and the public, are going to get them from Congress and the courts.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 17, 2023

Attorney General Merrick Garland, in releasing a report that concluded this investigation never should have occurred, made no statement whatsoever. 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

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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JonathanTurley

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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JonathanTurley

JUNE 11, 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. He will surrender on Tuesday — but that will be only the start of an existential fight for Trump.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 15, 2023

District Attorney Fani Willis appears to have elected to charge everything and everyone and let God sort them out. The long-anticipated indictment by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is expected in the coming days and will focus on alleged election tampering and related offenses in the 2020 presidential election.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

10 speech supporting Israel, and accuses Israel of committing “war crimes and/or crimes against humanity under international law.” 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

DECEMBER 27, 2020

Now, Harvard Law Professor and Bloomberg columnist has added a Trump-like call for the use of defamation lawsuit to combat “fake news.” Sullivan, sued for defamation and won under Alabama law. The Supreme Court ruled that tort law could not be used to overcome First Amendment protections for free speech or the free press.

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