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Police Groups Ask The University of Minnesota To Investigate Student’s Call To Make Life “Hell” For Officers

JonathanTurley

Here is the underlying criminal provision: 609.78 Misdemeanor offenses. Gross misdemeanor offenses. 2b.Other felony offenses. At a minimum, the school should establish that calling for such harassment is a violation of the student code and that such conduct will not be tolerated in any student, including Meyers.

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Was Rittenhouse’s Possession of the AR-15 Unlawful?

JonathanTurley

In covering the motions hearing last week in the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse, I noted a surprising comment from Judge Bruce Schroeder that he had “spent hours” with the Wisconsin gun law and could not state with certainty what it means in this case. Criminal laws are supposed to be interpreted narrowly.

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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. Police rejected claims of a racial motive and noted that, over a period of five years, 40 adults were arrested for shoplifting at Gibson’s Bakery, but only six were African American.

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Virginia Becomes Ground Zero in Battles Over Parental Rights

JonathanTurley

She was less specific on the details: “It could be a felony , it could be a misdemeanor, but we know that CPS charge could harm your employment, could harm their education, because nowadays many people do a CPS database search before offering employment.” Notably, both Sen. Tim Kaine (D., Va) and Rep.

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

JonathanTurley

It reportedly includes claims of felony and misdemeanor charges of unlawful restraint, but didn’t name individual suspects. 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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The Designated Defendant: Was Hunter Biden Always the Fall Guy?

JonathanTurley

He will plead guilty to two minor misdemeanor tax counts and a phantom felony count that will go away in time. He will declare himself guilty so the media and the political establishment can declare the scandal to be a closed matter: Nothing more to see here, other than a plea to a couple misdemeanors.

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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.