JonathanTurley

AUGUST 13, 2023

Despite my enthusiastic support at this nomination, I have come to view Attorney General Merrick Garland as a failure as Attorney General. After being confronted by allegations of a fixed investigation, Attorney General Merrick Garland just sent Shoeless Joe back into the game. Jackson responded “Yes, kid, I’m afraid it is.”

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JonathanTurley

MAY 1, 2023

After years of delaying disclosures and admissions, Hunter could now be pushing to cap off the criminal side of the scandal before more information is released in Arkansas and Washington. For the White House, even a criminal plea is preferred if they can avoid one particular claim — and they may be succeeding.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 18, 2024

District Attorney Fani Willis had described Wade as “ a Southern gentleman. In New York, the legislature changed the statute of limitations to allow Trump to be sued while New York Attorney General Letitia James effectively ran on a pledge of selectively prosecuting him. Fulton County, Ga. Me, not so much.”

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JonathanTurley

MAY 27, 2024

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg appears to be launching his own school of abstract legal work in the Trump indictment. For many of us, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has created a new school of abstract law where there is no need for objective meaning. The key is to avoid any objective meaning. and Maurice C.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 28, 2024

There is still debate among legal experts as to the specific crime that District Attorney Alvin Bragg is alleging. Some of these checks, labeled “legal expenses,” were allegedly for attorney Michael Cohen to pay off Stormy Daniels. There is a plausible reason why payments to an attorney were listed as legal expenses.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 2, 2023

Yet now Comey is heralding the effort of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg , who campaigned on a pledge of bagging Trump for some unspecified crime. Bragg may try to accomplish this Frankensteinian feat by converting this into a felony. The public pressure worked. Bragg caved.

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MAY 24, 2024

Now it will be up to 12 New Yorkers to do what neither the court nor the prosecutors were willing to do: adhere to the rule of law regardless of the identity of the defendant. Merchan has allowed the government to bring back into life a dead misdemeanor and convert it into 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in the first degree.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 7, 2023

Given Bragg’s failure to even state the key offense allowing him to bring these 34 felonies, Merchan should have scheduled a hearing on the threshold legal questions in two weeks — not schedule all motions to be heard in December. It is not simply that the district attorney ran on a pledge to indict this defendant.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 21, 2023

The scene from the 1931 movie “Frankenstein” came to mind this week as Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg prepared an indictment of former President Donald Trump. The limit is two years for a misdemeanor and, even if he can convert this into a felony, it is not clear if he can meet the longer five-year limitation. It’s alive.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 13, 2024

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is losing even CNN hosts and legal analysts. In a case based on a dead misdemeanor and a rapidly falling heart rate on the manufactured felony, one can understand the appeal of witnesses who can speak for the dead. Jonathan Turley is the J.B. and Maurice C.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 6, 2023

Warning: it has no legally nutritional content… Here is the column: “We cannot and will not normalize serious criminal conduct,” Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said of his indictment of former president Donald Trump. At some point, Bragg will have to state the actual criminal basis for these 34 counts.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

That celebrated role continued this year when Cohen was called to testify in the New York fraud case brought by Attorney General Letitia James. Trump attorney Alina Habba then asked him: “So you lied under oath in February of 2019? He pleaded guilty to felonies including false statements to banks in 2018.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 9, 2023

The Washington Post’s Ruth Marcus and others have written about how the evidence exposed a “stunning display of Trump’s narcissism.” The Bidens are suffering from legal exposure in actions concerning everything from withholding child support to peddling influence to federal felonies. When attorney John F.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 18, 2023

As first reported by the Washington Examiner, Swalwell used his official position to reserve the space for the press conference and lent his assistance to Hunter in refusing to appear before the House committees investigating his father, President Biden. Where Bowman’s offense was treated as a misdemeanor, Hunter’s offense is a felony.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 17, 2023

That is what attorney and former IRS official Lois Lerner did — twice — when House Republicans wanted to ask her about the Obama administration targeting conservative groups. That will force the hand of Attorney General Merrick Garland, who aggressively pursued Trump figures for contempt, including former Trump adviser Steve Bannon.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 20, 2023

Here is the column: “The moment that we are waiting for, we made it to the finale together” — those familiar words from “ America’s Got Talent ” — could well be the opening line for Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg next week, when he is expected to unveil an indictment of former President Trump.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 28, 2023

Here is the column: The collapse of the Hunter Biden plea bargain has left many in Washington shocked. That is not even including potential felony charges for the original gun violation , money laundering, or other crimes. That is what is called a “happy ending” in Washington.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

Now, the Michigan Attorney General and others are suggesting that Republicans who oppose certification or even meet with President Donald Trump on the issue could be criminally investigated or charged. As I have previously written, a leading proponent has been former prosecutor and Washington Post columnist Randall D.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

Attorney General Merrick Garland moved quickly and aggressively to prosecute Trump associates such as Steve Bannon who failed to appear or cooperate with Congress. 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 12, 2023

To make matters worse, the same suspects have surfaced to celebrate Trump’s expected demise — and remind the public of the perceived double standard in Washington. Jonathan Turley is an attorney and professor at George Washington University Law School. Smith’s case could end with a stroke of a pen.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 31, 2023

Here is the column: Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has finally made history. If reports are accurate, he may attempt to “bootstrap” the misdemeanor into a felony (and longer statute of limitations) by alleging an effort to evade federal election charges. He is a Fox News contributor.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

If he is found to have lied, he can be charged with a criminal felony. False statements on any of these questions could result in new charges and pressure on Attorney General Merrick Garland to prosecute. Jonathan Turley is an attorney and professor at George Washington University Law School.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 26, 2021

The long-awaited, though partial, release of a memorandum from the Justice Department this week left many “ frustrated ,” as predicted by the Washington Post, in Washington. Critics had sought the memo as the “smoking gun” to show how former Attorney General Bill Barr scuttled any obstruction charges against Donald Trump.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 27, 2023

Rather than prosecuting Hunter Biden for a felony in lying on a federal gun form, it is sending him into a diversion program due to an addiction that he says he was able to break years ago. The Justice Department also appears to have latched on to the 7% solution.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 11, 2024

That alone will be an historic moment for Congress to declare that the son of a sitting president may have committed a federal felony. 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 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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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Here is the column: Hunter Biden returned to court today on the felony indictment for his possession of a handgun, including allegations that he lied on an Oct.12, 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

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

For years, many of us argued that Attorney General Merrick Garland’s refusal to appoint a special counsel in the Biden corruption scandal was baffling. The Justice Department then attempted an absurd sweetheart deal to close off the case without felony charges or jail time. The unseen pattern is becoming more and more troubling.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 11, 2022

6 riot or an outgrowth of an ongoing grand jury investigation in Washington that could involve charges of seditious conspiracy, obstruction of official proceedings or other serious counts. The PRA is rarely subject to criminal prosecution, and past prosecutions have resulted in remarkably light punishments.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 25, 2023

He will plead guilty to two minor misdemeanor tax counts and a phantom felony count that will go away in time. 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

JANUARY 7, 2022

Here is the column: The conviction of Ghislaine Maxwell last week on five of six felony counts r epresented the first guilty verdict to come out of the Jeffrey Epstein scandal since his death. Epstein pleaded guilty to Florida charges of felony solicitation of underage girls in 2008 and served a 13-month jail sentence.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Major media from the Washington Post to National Public Radio routinely refer to the riot as an insurrection despite a deep disagreement over the characterization of the criminal conduct. The Committee was playing to the same audience and knew that they did not have to produce such evidence to make their case.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Tribe has been an outspoken critic of Trump, whom he has denounced as a “terrorist,” and he has supported a wide array of criminal and constitutional claims against him. Tribe insists the clarity and coherence comes in a later provision referring to how a president “shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed.”

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Career prosecutors have quit there after the election of District Attorney Chesa Boudin, who is blamed for a sharp decrease in prosecutions. Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University. The convictions would later be expunged completely; millions of offenses erased.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Many of these alleged criminal acts were presented as reassuringly simple and straightforward. Former prosecutor and Washington Post columnist Randall D. Others claimed Trump committed “felony bribery” by fundraising for Republican senators when he was about to be impeached.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 30, 2023

Trump also knows that while he cannot afford to lose one felony count, Smith cannot afford to lose one juror. 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

JULY 21, 2022

Harvard law professor Laurence Tribe said the question was only what would be charged first, since Trump’s felonies were shown “without any doubt, beyond a reasonable doubt, beyond any doubt, and the crimes are obvious.” Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University.

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