JonathanTurley

APRIL 7, 2024

Now, Judge Walton has been criticized by the United States Court of Appeals for a District of Columbia for a surveillance order of the computer of a January 6th defendant. ” The issue of these public statements by Trump is currently pending before both state and federal courts, including proceedings in the District of Columbia.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 19, 2021

Waters’ most recent words could well be cited in the ongoing litigation over the January 6 th riot on Capitol Hill. Moreover, they would fail under a lower standard of proof than the “beyond a reasonable doubt” standard in criminal law. He should be criminally indicted for inciting insurrection against our democracy.”

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

However, such crimes are notoriously difficult to litigate , as shown by the failed 2012 prosecution of former presidential candidate John Edwards. Many of these alleged criminal acts were presented as reassuringly simple and straightforward.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 24, 2022

Trump has long used litigation as a business and political cudgel , often advancing weak legal claims. He has been criticized for treating the law as endlessly malleable. To bring a charge over such a challenge could criminalize future challenges when one party claims that the other lacked a good-faith basis. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.)

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 31, 2021

I have repeatedly asked in columns why, if incitement was so clear and public, there has yet to be a criminal charge brought against Trump. On the existing evidence, they will likely fail on appeal, even if they survive the trial level litigation. 6 riot that he was investigating Trump for a possible incitement charge.

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