JonathanTurley

MARCH 18, 2024

It is becoming harder to deny the existence of a two-track system of justice in the country as commentators and even a few courts raise concerns over the role of politics in prosecutions. The problem is that courts have made it virtually impossible to use this claim to dismiss counts. District Court Judge Cormac J.

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APRIL 4, 2022

Share The Senate Judiciary Committee deadlocked 11-11 along party lines on the nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to succeed Justice Stephen Breyer, who plans to retire from the Supreme Court this summer. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. This article was originally published at Howe on the Court.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 31, 2020

A government lawyer who argued at the Supreme Court more than anyone else in the 20th century. As the year comes to a close, SCOTUSblog looks back at some of the individuals who died in 2020 after living lives that brought them – at different times and for different reasons – to the Supreme Court of the United States.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 4, 2024

“J-schools” now encourage students to leave “neutrality behind” and push “solidarity [as] ‘a commitment to social justice that translates into action.’” former Washington Post executive editor, and Andrew Heyward, former CBS News president, reaffirmed this shift. She was acquitted. That is not the case for Baker. government.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Below is a longer version of my column in the New York Post on the gag order motion docketed Friday night in Washington, D.C. Smith told District Judge Tanya Chutkan in Washington, D.C., However, there are laws on the books allowing for the prosecution of such cases. by Special Counsel Jack Smith. Robert McDonnell.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 21, 2024

It certainly now should be facing a directed verdict by the court. Jonathan Turley is an attorney and professor at George Washington University Law School. The “legal expense” label was a natural characterization for a lawyer who was paid monthly and was on-call as Trump’s personal counsel.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 20, 2023

Prosecutors suggested that Cohen should try to stop lying before coming before the Court. Furman agreed and ruled that it would be better for everyone to keep Cohen under the supervision of the criminal justice system. Jonathan Turley is an attorney and professor at George Washington University Law School.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 15, 2024

Indeed, in Washington, it was an open joke when Hunter was put on the Amtrak board and later made its vice chair. When pressed on his lack of credentials for the position, Democratic Senator Tom Carper of Delaware quipped that “ Hunter Biden has spent a lot of time on Amtrak trains.” Hunter demanded that they yield to his demands.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 11, 2024

The claim that this schedule is the result of treating Trump like other criminal defendants is increasingly dubious given statements of courts and the Special Counsel. courts, with thousands of stacked up cases, that would be a rocket docket for a complex case of this kind. Those words of U.S. In the D.C.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 29, 2023

.” There is widespread support for barring attacks on court staff and Trump did attack the Court’s clerk in a prior posting. In my view, criticism of the case, the court, and the prosecutor should be treated as protected speech. Where to draw this line is the subject of this column.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 15, 2024

Fortunately witnesses are no longer required to put their hand on the bible in swearing to testify truthfully in court. Otherwise, the court would need the New York Fire Department standing by in case the book burst into flames. Whatever the outcome, it may prove a greater indictment of the New York court system than the defendant.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 27, 2024

In the instructions, the court will tell the jurors that payments cannot be campaign contributions if they would have been made anyway regardless of the campaign. Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at the George Washington University Law School. They also need to point out other gaps. and Maurice C.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 6, 2024

That now includes allegations of filing false statements with courts and even influencing witnesses. In the prior hearings in Atlanta, Nathan Wade was confronted with what appears to be false statements made to the court in his divorce case, false statements that he repeated under oath in disqualification testimony.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Any first-year law student knows that you cannot comment on the silence of a Mirandized defendant after an arrest under the Fifth Amendment – let alone ignore a court order. Jonathan Turley, a member of USA TODAY’s Board of Contributors, is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 18, 2024

In the special counsel’s filing, the court was informed that “an FBI chemist subsequently analyzed the residue and determined that it was cocaine. Jonathan Turley is an attorney and professor at George Washington University Law School. What is clear is that the sobriety defense now seems as risky as it is implausible.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

For instance, Sidney Powell stated that Trump clearly believed that he had won the election when he was challenging the results in the courts and Congress. Powell pleaded to misdemeanors for a deal that avoids jail time and preserves her ability to resume the practice of law.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 30, 2023

Not only are defendants scattering, but some are seeking to go to federal court where the trial would not likely be televised, as the Georgia prosecutors reportedly want. Regardless of the ruling of the court, it is likely to be appealed. However, Willis is trying to hold together a case to try them en masse and in state court.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 18, 2023

As first reported by the Washington Examiner, Swalwell used his official position to reserve the space for the press conference and lent his assistance to Hunter in refusing to appear before the House committees investigating his father, President Biden. Swalwell has long courted controversy. It was a valid subpoena. and Maurice C.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 19, 2024

The court has indicated that it may hold hearings on the controversy in early February. That could present a possible delay if the court believes that a change in prosecutors (or even a change in venue) is needed in the interests of justice. Below is my column in The Messenger on the unfolding Fani Willis scandal in Georgia.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 28, 2023

Here is the column: The collapse of the Hunter Biden plea bargain has left many in Washington shocked. District Court for the District of Delaware. That is what is called a “happy ending” in Washington. The real question is whether the fix in this case will fail and leave the President with the pardon option behind the glass.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

One possible reason Willis dropped some of these targets is that she knew the indictment of these senators would have been quickly and firmly rejected by the courts as the criminalization of political speech. In 2016, there were also violent riots in Washington opposing Trump’s inauguration, thanks in no small part to such rhetoric.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 3, 2023

That eagerness could prove the court’s undoing, however. The New York law is unique in allowing massive penalties without the loss of a single dollar by a bank. However, James wants dissolution and crippling damages, and that could trigger a higher-court review. Supreme Court decided a case, BMW of North America v.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 15, 2024

Cohen has lied to Congress, courts, special counsels, the IRS, the banks, and virtually every creature that walks or crawls on the face of the Earth. Jonathan Turley is an attorney and professor at George Washington University Law School.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 26, 2022

Supreme Court. With Justice Stephen Breyer expected to retire at the end of this term , California Supreme Court Justice Leondra Kruger is one of the frontrunners to succeed him. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit who was on former President Donald Trump’s short list to fill a Supreme Court vacancy. as “only jealousy.”.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 12, 2023

To make matters worse, the same suspects have surfaced to celebrate Trump’s expected demise — and remind the public of the perceived double standard in Washington. So in the court of public opinion, past history and hypocrisy may mean that few are swayed about whether they back Trump or not. Which leaves the criminal court.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 21, 2023

Bragg will have to convince a court that Trump paid the hush money for the sole purpose of the election. Indeed, of all of the potential charges that Trump is facing in Washington, Atlanta and New York, this is one that he must have hoped would come first. This is a patently political prosecution.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

At least that’s what he argues in a new court filing in his federal gun case, which presents Hunter as one of the most tragic figures since the fall of Troy. Hunter The brief starts by asking the court to ignore Hunter’s own admissions as to his use of drugs during the period of his gun ownership. .”

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

If Trump actually did believe he had viable claims in the courts or Congress, the prosecutions would collapse. Even Smith admits that Trump’s early election claims were protected political speech, but at some point became a criminal conspiracy when Trump had to know that his claims were baseless. Jonathan Turley is the J.B.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 11, 2024

Nevertheless, in 2013, Democrats pushed through a rule change allowing most presidential nominees (but not Supreme Court nominees) to be confirmed by a simple majority vote. And, eventually, the Democratic Party will find itself one short-sell short of political and ethical bankruptcy.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 19, 2023

Elias was recently severed by the Democratic National Committee from further representation and has been previously sanctioned in the federal courts in other litigation.) In Washington, the more people involved in a conspiracy, the less culpable it becomes. After all, this was a collective effort. They all did it, so no one did.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 9, 2023

For example, Biden conceded that his own White House counsel and trusted legal advisers uniformly told him that renewing a national eviction moratorium would be unconstitutional — but he listened instead to a Harvard law professor who reportedly assured him he had the authority.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Joseph Bankman , a longtime Stanford Law School tax professor, was a paid employee of his son and helped promote the company. While offenses are likely to run concurrently, he can count on little sympathy from a sentencing court if convicted. After wheeling and dealing in billions, SBF has become his own sole remaining asset.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 22, 2023

Hunter’s lawyer Chris Clark (who just asked the court to be allowed to leave the Biden team) wrote Weiss and the prosecutors that the best thing for everyone was to just walk away: “This of all cases justifies neither the spectacle of a sitting President testifying at a criminal trial nor the potential for a resulting Constitutional crisis.”

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 25, 2022

The Washington Post and The New York Times have published a series of leaks clearly designed to put Donald Trump and his team on the defense in the media, including claims that he was hiding sensitive nuclear-weapons material and details on how the search was prompted by video surveillance outside the storage room at Mar-a-Lago.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 5, 2023

MSNBC’s Zeeshan Aleem declared in June that the scandal “keeps getting worse” but “the silver lining is that it will likely intensify calls for overhauling the high court, and help strip more people of the illusion that the Supreme Court is an apolitical branch of government and a neutral arbiter of the law.”.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Here is the column: Hunter Biden returned to court today on the felony indictment for his possession of a handgun, including allegations that he lied on an Oct.12, 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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JonathanTurley

JUNE 11, 2023

Grant for speeding in a horse-drawn carriage on the streets of Washington, D.C. One of the early issues for the court in Florida will be whether to gag the former president from campaigning on this matter. Trump, based on past behavior, is likely to invite rather than avoid such fights.

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