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Police Suggest Possible Charges for Those Who Filmed Rape on Train

JonathanTurley

Generally there is no duty to rescue or to call police under the common law. For example, Washington state allows for the charging of a misdemeanor. The law covers violent crimes, sexual assault, and assault of a child. Perhaps some of our Pennsylvania lawyers could help out.

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Legal scholars urge Senate to reject Trump First Amendment impeachment defense

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A letter signed by 144 constitutional law scholars and circulated Friday characterizes as “legally frivolous” ex-President Donald Trump’s First Amendment -based defense in his impeachment trial slated to start in the US Senate on February 8.

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August 2021 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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The Supreme Court called the appellate court’s conclusion that there are always reasonable legal alternatives to disobeying constitutional laws “untenable,” and held that “reasonable legal alternatives” must be effective. New Zealand Lawyers Challenged Climate Change Commission’s Recommendations. Lawyers for Climate Action NZ v.

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Democratic Governor Calls For Criminalizing “Lying” About Election Results

JonathanTurley

” He would make such comments a gross misdemeanor subject to incarceration. Such a criminal law would be ripe for abuse and would create a chilling effect that would be positively glacial. Inslee’s proposals raise the same questions that we discussed in relation to “stolen valor” laws. 6th insurrection.”

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The GW Commencement Controversy: A Response To Rep. Susan Wild

JonathanTurley

GW Law, for example, has a tenured professor who is without question well versed in constitutional law but has recently made a name for himself on cable news and social media by undermining his own past well documented scholarship. ” I repeatedly made the same point in my oral testimony. It is, of course, ironic that Rep.

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Susanna Gibson Alleges that Critics Committed a “Sex Crime” In Exposing Her Alleged Streaming of Sex Acts

JonathanTurley

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.” .”

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Ragefully Wrong: A Response to Professor Laurence Tribe

JonathanTurley

Tribe often shows little patience for the niceties of constitutional law or tradition. Even though a federal court and even Democrats admitted that Clinton committed the crime of perjury, Tribe assured Democrats that it fell entirely outside of the constitutional standard of a high crime and misdemeanor.