JonathanTurley

JUNE 9, 2023

.” The problem, however, is that this is just like the transport of migrants to Martha’s Vineyard in September 2022, which a number of Democratic leaders and legal experts insisted was also a clear case of kidnapping and human trafficking. The reason is that these claims are made for cable news, not courts of law.

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AUGUST 4, 2021

Washington Supreme Court Said Climate Activist Was Entitled to Present Necessity Defense Based on Evidence that Legal Alternatives Were Not “Truly Reasonable”. The Supreme Court reversed an intermediate appellate court’s decision affirming a superior court determination that the defendant could not present a necessity defense.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Gretchen Whitmer for her misrepresentation of a state supreme court ruling that she violated the state constitution in her pandemic orders, a false account echoed by NBC’s Chuck Todd. Whitmer did violate the Constitution, as have other public officials in other states. It does not use “high crime or misdemeanors.”

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 8, 2022

According to the Seattle Times , Inslee declared that “it should not be legal in the state of Washington for elected officials or candidates for office to willfully lie about these election results.” ” He would make such comments a gross misdemeanor subject to incarceration. In United States v. 6th insurrection.”

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 18, 2021

Previously, I wrote about Hastings in addressing the bribery theories being voiced by Democratic leaders and legal experts in the first Trump impeachment. This response in the form of an impeachment may be more important than a legal response in the form of a prosecution. This is only a question of the jurisdiction of the Senate.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 17, 2021

On its face, the planned impeachment trial is at odds with the language of the Constitution, which expressly states that removal of a president is the primary purpose of such a trial. He will be a citizen and would be best served legally to forgo the trial entirely as extraconstitutional and invalid.

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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. 6 th constitutes actual incitement to insurrection.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 26, 2023

The debacle in the Hunter Biden investigation has left most objective legal analysts in disbelief, with one CNN analyst calling it an “ unholy mess.” Weiss cut a deal with Hunter’s legal team that was widely derided. For House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), What followed has bordered on the burlesque.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Here is the column: It seems the subject of Donald Trump , like necessity, is the mother of invention, at least when it comes to legal analysis. 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.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

Watkins, a lawyer for Gibson, supported her claim of a criminal violation, citing the state’s revenge porn law. As shown below, the law makes it a Class 1 misdemeanor to “maliciously” distribute nude or sexual images of another person with “intent to coerce, harass, or intimidate.” The Criminal Allegation Daniel P.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 27, 2022

” In modern American politics, it often seems like the only tool is impeachment and every controversy instantly becomes a high crime and misdemeanor. In January, the House won an 8-1 victory before the Supreme Court, which rejected Trump’s privilege objections to the release of White House materials. Kamala Harris and Sen.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

There was a time when legal disagreements could be passionate but not personal. Now even law deans have called Supreme Court justices “hacks” to the delight of their followers. I was singled out on this occasion for Tribe’s latest personal attack because I voiced a legal opinion different from his own.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 1, 2023

The House now has credible, compelling evidence that the president may have committed high crimes and misdemeanors. This is a constitutional process, not just some trash-talking cable show (although, admittedly, it was hard to tell at moments in the hearing). That is how an impeachment inquiry should begin. Because we do not know.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

While legal eagles will be analyzing every move, what citizens really need is an Philadelphia Eagles fan to understand what is unfolding. Swalwell’s comments not only include disturbing legal claims , but highly personal and offensive remarks like mocking threats against Susan Collins, R-Maine. In the NFL, it is called “tanking.”

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