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Appellate Court Upholds $25 Million Award Against Oberlin in Mob Action Against Family Grocery

JonathanTurley

Aladin was charged with robbery, which is a second degree felony, and Whettstone and Lawrence were charged with first degree misdemeanor assault. The two patriarchs of the family died during the course of this litigation. Raimondo recently left the college ). President Ambar would not even apologize to this family.

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California Dreaming: Newsom’s Kidnapping Claim Against DeSantis is Long on Politics and Short on the Law

JonathanTurley

.” Much of the media is reporting the pledge for a criminal investigation without noting the same allegations were made in the Martha’s Vineyard case and the glaring absence of criminal charges over that previous transport. The reason is that these claims are made for cable news, not courts of law.

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Why Has Trump Not Been Charged With Criminal Incitement?

JonathanTurley

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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Yes, Trump Can Pardon Himself But He Should Not Do So

JonathanTurley

One of the longest standing debates in constitutional law is dismissed as ill-informed by some of the same experts. After host Lawrence O’Donnell said he believed a president could give himself a pardon, Tribe proclaimed such a view is “incoherent and incompatible” as a constitutional matter. That is the point of a pardon.

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The House ‘Concentrates the Mind’ of Hunter Biden with a Game-Changing Subpoena

JonathanTurley

Moreover, Hunter has tried a wide array of approaches to these allegations of influence peddling, from a plea for sympathy to threats of litigation. 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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