JonathanTurley

APRIL 15, 2024

After an absurd $450 million decision courtesy of Attorney General Letitia James, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg will bring his equally controversial criminal prosecution over hush money paid to former porn star Stormy Daniels before the 2016 election. Like his predecessor, Bragg previously scoffed at the case.

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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

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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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

On Wednesday, Digmon was also charged with two felony counts of violating state ethics law for allegedly using her school board position to solicit a thing of value by selling more than $2,500 in advertisements to the board. ” Abuse of grand jury information is a felony under Alabama law. Theodore J.

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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. Notably, Bragg’s predecessor declined to bring these charges. The public pressure worked.

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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. Trump’s lawyers are defending a former president who is charged under a state misdemeanor which died years ago under the statute of limitations. It wasn’t hush money. It was consideration.”

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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

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

MAY 24, 2024

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. Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro professor of public interest law at George Washington University and a practicing criminal defense attorney.

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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. Thus far, he has received every break from federal prosecutors, from expired statutes of limitations to reported tip-offs on investigators’ interviews.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 26, 2023

However, the greatest case for an impeachment inquiry was made by Attorney General Merrick Garland himself. the case for an inquiry came from a most unlikely source: Attorney General Merrick Garland. Attorney David Weiss was a growing concern for many observers. For House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.),

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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. There are serious challenges to this prosecution, including an argument that time has expired under the statute of limitations. Here is the column: “It’s moving.

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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 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

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. Under the statute, this responsibility is left solely to the president.” Jonathan Turley is an attorney and professor at 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

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

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

If he is found to have lied, he can be charged with a criminal felony. Hunter has benefited from the Justice Department limiting its investigation and inexplicably allowing the statute of limitations to run on key charges. Jonathan Turley is an attorney and professor at George Washington University Law School.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 24, 2022

Seven other states require a “good cause or special need” to carry a concealed gun in public under statutes like the New York law that are now at risk. In 1991, the number of states plus Washington, DC with this kind of law on the books was nearly double that, according to Every Town for Gun Safety.

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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. Gavin Newsom (D-Calif.) Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.)

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

The reason, once again, is Hillary Clinton, who remains a complicating factor in Attorney General Merrick Garland showing the public that this is not about pursuing Trump but enforcing the law. Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University. Follow him on Twitter @JonathanTurley.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 26, 2022

attorney in Los Angeles and a second summer as a summer associate at Munger, Tolles & Olson. After graduating from Yale in 2001, she spent a year working as an associate at Jenner & Block in Washington, D.C., Kruger returned to Washington in 2007 to take a job as an assistant to the U.S. solicitor general. United States.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 7, 2020

From bribery statutes to constitutional provisions, legal experts routinely and unfailingly conclude that Trump or his family can be prosecuted or impeached for an endless array of misdeeds. Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University. I held that position before Trump took office.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JULY 6, 2017

The court said the statutory language authorized courts to grant stays and that EPA’s reading of the statute “would have the perverse result of empowering this court to act when the agency denies a stay but not when it chooses to grant one.” State of Washington Environmental and Land Use Hearings Office , No. A-3393-15T4 et al.

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Broadcast Law Blog

JANUARY 22, 2010

Because the station cannot censor the candidate ad (except in the exceptionally rare situation where the airing of the ad might violate a Federal felony statute), the broadcaster has no liability for the contents of the ad. In fact, the Communications Act forbids a station from censoring a candidate ad.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

OCTOBER 7, 2019

The federal district court for the District of South Dakota temporarily enjoined enforcement of provisions of a riot boosting statute enacted in South Dakota in 2019 in response to anticipated protests of the Keystone XL pipeline. Washington High Court Declined to Review Decision Giving Pipeline Protester Right to Present Necessity Defense.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MARCH 6, 2018

The action involved closing valves on pipelines in Washington, Montana, Minnesota, and North Dakota. He had been convicted of misdemeanor trespass and felony criminal mischief and conspiracy to commit criminal mischief in October 2017. State of Washington , No. Foster , 34-2016-CR-00187 (N.D. Alaska, filed Feb. 16, 2018).

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